Tailor-made power grids Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 01.04.2021 - Empa researcher Cristina Dominguez is developing a computer model, which can be used to plan electricity grids in developing countries. To collect data, she travelled to Kenya to get an idea of how people live without electricity and what developments access to the power grid can trigger. http://www.kmu.admin.ch/aktuell/00493/01791/02078/index.html?lang=fr Address for enquiries
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Modeling eternity in the rock laboratory Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 16.02.2021 - Cement is one of the key materials for the safe storage of radioactive waste. What is needed is an almost infinite durability of the containers. Empa researchers are therefore analyzing material systems that can handle this task.
When Barbara Lothenbach pushes ahead with her research projects, she knows that she will not live to see the final result: What she is working on should last between 100,000 and one million years. The researcher from Empa s Concrete & Asphalt laboratory is investigating cement-based materials, which are suitable for the disposal of radioactive waste.
SCS Award for PhD thesis: Fingerprint analysis for laughing gas Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 09.02.2021 - The former Empa scientist Kristýna Kantnerová receives the METAS Award 2021 in analytical chemistry, awarded by the Swiss Chemical Society, for her PhD thesis. In her research, she took a closer look at the well-known greenhouse gas nitrous oxide and developed a method for identifying and quantifying very rare, doubly substituted nitrous oxide isotopocules (isotopically substituted molecules) – an important step towards a better understanding of their formation and how to curb nitrous oxide emissions in the long term.