Sep 23, 2011 | License issued for the functional principle of organic solar cells
Flexible thin-film solar cells have good prospects to replace today’s rigid silicon-based solar cells, among other reasons because their production requires significantly fewer raw materials. Empa recently filed a patent...
Sep 22, 2011 | World Resources Forum in Davos 2011
By 2050, the world population will rise from now 7 billion to 9 billion, putting even greater pressure on natural resources. Urgent action is needed to address the global resource challenges the world is currently...
Sep 22, 2011 | Self-healing membranes
Lianas whose stabilization rings of woody cells heal spontaneously after suffering damage serve as a natural example to bionic experts of self-repairing membranes. Such membranes could find use, for example, in rubber...
Sep 21, 2011 | Empa results published in “Nature Materials”
The technology yielding flexible solar cells with an 18.7% world record efficiency developed by scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, has now been published in “Nature...
19.09.2011 | Im Amt bestätigt
Der Bundesrat hat den Präsidenten des ETH-Rates, Fritz Schiesser, für weitere vier Jahre in seinem Amt bestätigt. Der ETH-Rat ist das strategische Führungs- und Aufsichtsorgan des ETH-Bereichs, zu dem auch die Empa als...
Sep 15, 2011 | Empa extends its collaboration with the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology
Cooperation between Empa and the Royal Institute of technology in Stockholm (KTH, the Swedish equivalent of the ETH) has existed at the educational and project levels for several years. Now this collaborative work has...
14 sept. 2011 | Potentiel d’économie de carburant en voiture
Tous les automobilistes qui mettent inutilement en marche la climatisation de leur voiture – à une température extérieure inférieure à 18 degrés Celsius, sauf pour désembuer brièvement le pare-brise – consomment trop de...
Sep 14, 2011 | EmpaNews 34 published
Sustainable use of energy and raw materials is a central research topic at Empa. The variety of topics streches from rural biofuel-projects in Africa to the ambitious vision of producing liquid fuel out...