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Go-ahead for Swiss m4m Center Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 20.04.2021 - Since 15 April, it is official: The Technology Transfer Center for 3D Printing in Medical Technology – Swiss m4m Center, in short – meets the requirements of ISO standard 13485:2016; it is thus allowed to produce implants and instruments for human patients. The starting signal for promising projects with Swiss SMEs: The partner network already comprises 45 companies and research institutions. The idea is as appealing as it is obvious:...

How much does Switzerland consume? - 87 million tons of material each year Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 15.04.2021 - Empa researchers have analyzed the entire material and energy flows of the Swiss economy. Their final report now provides important data and comparisons. The team also looked into how the behavior of the Swiss population affects greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings, industrial plants, roads, cars, gasoline, electricity and all our consumption: What does Switzerland consume each year? How much o...

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

When used for materials testing, extensometers are used to accurately measure material properties that are critical for a vast range of engineering designs - aircraft, energy systems, medical devices, and civil structures, to name a few. Very often, human lives depend on accurate and consistent measurements made with extensometers. Image Credit: Epsilon Technology Corp. Testing structural materials often requires extensometers to make accurate extension measurements of only a few microns or tens of microns (which are much too small to see without magnification), and sometimes while under dyn...

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 ...