Aug 26, 2013 | Nontoxic scaffold developped
The concept is amazing: a synthetic cell carrier is populated by skin cells and dissolves simultaneously. In just two years, the Lucerne-based company nolax and Empa have developed this project up to a first proof of...
Aug 24, 2013 | Empa helps to expand the Stockholm Convention POP list
The flame retardant HBCD may no longer be produced or used. This was decided by representatives from over 160 countries in late May at a UN conference on chemicals in Geneva. Empa's extensive research on HBCD, formerly...
22 août 2013 | L’Empa en fête avec des hôtes de la politique et de l’économie
Des représentantes et représentants de haut rang de l’économie et de la politique ont fêté avec l’Empa le 19 août les 50 ans de son site de Dübendorf. Créer des innovations commercialisables à partir des résultats de la...
Aug 22, 2013 | EmpaNews 41 published
50 years ago the Empa campus was literally carved out of a green field in Dübendorf on the outskirts of Zurich. The exterior of the buildings has hardly changed. However, inside the walls it is a completely different...