Jun 26, 2023 | Heat resistant drone for fire fighting
Researchers from Empa and Imperial College London are developing a heat-resistant drone that can analyze the source of danger at close range in the event of a building or forest fire. This allows firefighters to optimize...
Jun 22, 2023 | Aerogel Architecture Award 2023
On 2 June, the Aerogel Architecture Award was presented for the third time on the Empa campus in Dübendorf. A total of six projects were awarded in the categories Realized Projects and Student Projects. All of them show...
Jun 20, 2023 | Innovative sportswear
Just in time for summer: The Swiss start-up Swijin is launching a new sportswear category with its SwimRunner – a sports bra together with matching bottoms that works as both swimwear and running gear and dries in no...
Jun 15, 2023 | A band-aid with sensor function
To ensure that wounds remain tightly sealed in the abdomen after surgery, researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have developed a patch with a sensor function. The polymer patch warns before the occurence of dangerous leaks...
Jun 12, 2023 | Country-scale calculation
Plastic particles less than five millimeters in size, also known as microplastics, often settle far away from their point of origin. Empa researchers have now developed a model that can be used to calculate the...
Jun 7, 2023 | 38th International Polymer Conference
Over four days in May, more than 700 experts from over 40 nations met in St. Gallen for the 38th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society, or PPS-38 for short, organized by Empa together with Olma...
Jun 5, 2023 | Chemicals in plastics
Plastics contain thousands of chemicals that can harm the environment and human health. Yet we know too little about approximately half of them. A new technical report from the United Nations Environment Programme...
Jun 1, 2023 | Antibiotics crisis: nanoparticles as therapy guide
In the case of blood poisoning, the bacteria in the blood must be identified as fast as possible so that a life-saving therapy can be started. Empa researchers have now developed "sepsis sensors" with magnetic...
May 24, 2023 | Phosphorescent materials for the watch industry
Empa research helps Swiss watches to glow in the dark: The luminescent material Swiss Super-LumiNova, which was refined at Empa, now adorns the hands and dials of a number of wristwatches, including the MoonSwatch...
May 23, 2023 | A DroneHub at NEST
They maintain and repair buildings, observe natural phenomena and transport goods: Drones and robots could play a major role in our lives in the future. With the DroneHub, a kind of aviary is to be created in the NEST...
May 16, 2023 | Special award for Empa apprentices
An outstanding performance in the national "Schweizer Jugend forscht" competition opens up new doors. That is exactly what Sofie Gnannt and Nick Cáceres, physics lab technician apprentices at Empa's Transport at...
May 11, 2023 | Accelerating research
The "Empa Zukunftsfonds" seeks private donors for outstanding research projects that are not (yet) supported elsewhere. For example a project from Empa's Surface Science and Coating Technologies laboratory: With the...
May 9, 2023 | Pooled expertise within the ETH Domain
Zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050: Switzerland can only achieve this ambitious goal if science, business, politics and society all work together. The six institutions of the ETH Domain have pooled their expertise,...
May 9, 2023 | Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's
During the course of Alzheimer's disease, protein fibrils appear in the spinal fluid of affected individuals. Empa researchers, together with the Department of Neurology at the Cantonal Hospital in St. Gallen, have now...
May 4, 2023 | New Head of Department at Empa
The Empa Directorate has appointed a successor to Brigitte Buchmann in her role as Department Head: Nathalie Casas, a chemical and bioengineer and expert in CO2 capture, will take over as Head of the Department "Energy,...
May 3, 2023 | A powerful tool to help organizations evaluate their carbon footprint
A new online digital ecosystem, currently developed under the leadership of Empa and digitalswitzerland, will connect valuable knowledge about greenhouse gas emissions, assessment standards and calculation tools with the...
May 2, 2023 | Empa’s Annual Report 2022
We hope to lead you on a gripping journey through the world of research and innovation; you may be surprised at how broad the term "applied research" is defined at Empa.
Apr 28, 2023 | Capturing and storing CO2
If Switzerland wants to achieve its goal of zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, it will have to rely on the use of negative emission technologies (NET), i.e. processes that remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store...
Apr 27, 2023 | Energy supply
Interview with Peter Richner, energy expert and Empa's deputy director, on our energy future – and the pitfalls of "forecasting".
Apr 25, 2023 | Green electronics
Can ecologically sustainable circuit boards for the electronics industry be produced from cellulose fibers? Empa researcher Thomas Geiger looked into this question. He is now part of a multinational EU project called...