Feb 14, 2017 | Empa-PSU team studies mobility of single molecule
A scanning tunneling microscope (STM), used to study changes in the shape of a single molecule at the atomic scale, impacts the ability of that molecule to make these changes; the entropy of the molecule is changed and,...
Jan 26, 2017 | Empa launches information platform
Empa offers Switzerland a platform to exchange information and knowhow in the field of Additive Manufacturing: During a technology briefing held at Empa Academy on January 18, experts from industry and research learned...
Jan 20, 2017 | Kompetenzzentrum für neuartige metallische Werkstoffe und Prozesse
Die Empa plant in Thun ein Kompetenzzentrum für neuartige metallische Werkstoffe und Prozesse. Der Regierungsrat beantragt dem Grossen Rat des Kantons Bern eine Aufbauhilfe von 10 Mio. Franken, während die Stadt Thun das...
Jan 19, 2017 | Barbara Lothenbach becomes «Distinguished Senior Researcher»
Bridges, houses, dams – for decades, cement has been a permanent feature of our urban environment. What is deemed a robust and lasting material, however, is actually fragile and highly complex on the inside. Barbara...
Jan 12, 2017 | Empa partner in EU project "ELENA"
Nanotechnology is regarded as the key technology of the 21st century, delivering the fundamental methods, which allow objects just a few hundred nanometers in size to be produced in any required shape. These objects find...
Jan 10, 2017 | Seasonal energy storage
Can thermal solar energy be stored until wintertime? Yes, this is possible, using a cheap material like sodium lye. Within a European research consortium Empa scientists and their colleagues have spent four years...
Oct 20, 2014 | Portrait Bernd Nowack
Bernd Nowack was recently admitted by Thomson Reuters, a provider of scientific online data-bases, to the circle of the world’s most influential scientists in the field of environmental scienc-es. The Empa researcher...