22.04.21 – Professor Christian Heinis at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for a project that will merge biological and chemical compound libraries to target so-called “undruggable” proteins. The ERC Advanced … Continue reading →
20.04.21 – Physical chemists and chemical engineers led by EPFL have used a chemical tweak to push the power-conversion efficiency and operational stability of perovskite solar cells to 25.6% and at least 450 hours respectively. Perovskites are hybrid compounds that … Continue reading →
16.04.21 – Water can freeze from liquid to solid ice or boil into a gas. In the kitchen these “phase transitions” aren’t smooth, but their discontinuous nature is smoothed out at high pressure. An international team of physicists led by … Continue reading →
07.04.21 – ISIC scientists report a hybrid bulk-heterojunction photoanode with benchmark performance for direct solar-to-chemical conversion Photoelectrochemical (PEC) solar-to-chemical conversion is a promising form of “artificial photosynthesis” which directly converts power from the Sun into the chemical energy of molecular … Continue reading →
23.03.21 – The LHCb collaboration, which includes EPFL scientists, has just released an update of a measurement which is one of the very few at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) consistently hinting at a deviation from the theoretical expectations. This … Continue reading →
23.03.21 – EPFL will soon be home to a European hub for high-performance computing focused on fusion power – a potential source of clean, risk-free energy. As part of this effort, EPFL’s Swiss Plasma Center will lead a campus-wide, cross-disciplinary … Continue reading →
22.03.21 – EPFL scientists have developed a new dye for solar cells that enables high power-conversion efficiency while being simple and cheap to make. The dye also works exceptionally well under low-light conditions, which is key for self- and low-powered … Continue reading →
22.03.21 – EPFL Professor and founding director of the Lausanne Centre for Ultrafast Science (LACUS), Majed Chergui, has been elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. The European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) is a non-profit, non-governmental and independent organization … Continue reading →
18.03.21 – Scientists at EPFL and the University of Geneva have combined two powerful, cutting-edge techniques to uncover the physics behind an exotic phase transition that turns a metal into an insulator. The materials they looked at are rare-earth nickelates, … Continue reading →
16.03.21 – Professor Clément Hongler and his team from the Chair of Statistical Field Theory found a new way of understanding Artificial Neural Networks. Their 2018 paper has gathered a lot of attention from the scientific community and is now … Continue reading →