22.08.19 – Raffaella Buonsanti has been awarded the 2019 Lecture Award from the European Chemical Society. The European Chemical Society (EuChemS) represents national chemical societies and other chemistry-related organizations in Europe. Its aim is “to nurture a platform for scientific … Continue reading →
21.08.19 – Scientists at EPFL have developed a new method to synthesize and screen thousands of macrocyclic compounds, a family of chemicals that are of great interest in the pharmaceutical industry. The study is published in Science Advances. Image: Integrated … Continue reading →
20.08.19 – Raffaella Buonsanti has been awarded a ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship is awarded annually by the UK’s Royal Society of Chemistry to recognize “emerging scientists in the early … Continue reading →
31.07.19 – Robert Dalang, head of the Chair of Probability and Victor Panaretos, head of the Chair of Mathematical Statistics and Director of the MATH Institute, have been named Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Their Fellowships will … Continue reading →
26.07.19 – EPFL chemical engineers have developed a new class of high-performance membranes for carbon capture that greatly exceed current targets. A major greenhouse gas, CO2 produced from burning fossil fuels is still mostly released into the atmosphere, adding to … Continue reading →
24.07.19 – Dr. Guijarro and Dr. Yao present the first demonstration of integrating CsPbI3 quantum dots into a conventional organic solar cell. The resulting performance enhancement has been published in Angewandte Chemie. Among the emerging photovoltaic technologies, organic solar cells … Continue reading →
23.07.19 – Porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have many applications like carbon capture and water-cleaning. However, MOFs with large pores tend to collapse. Chemists and chemical engineers at EPFL have now solved the problem by adding small amounts of a polymer … Continue reading →
21.07.19 – DePoly, a startup based at EPFL’s Valais-Wallis campus, has developed a chemical-based method for recycling PET containers. Its process, which offers several advantages over existing technology, has just won the company first place at the 2019 >>venture>> competition. … Continue reading →
15.07.19 – At its meeting of 10-11 July 2019, the ETH Board has announced the promotion of Kathryn Hess Bellwald and Jérôme Waser to full professors and named Dimitri Wyss as a new tenure-track assistant professor. Professor Kathryn Hess Bellwald … Continue reading →
09.07.19 – Nanotheranostics is a cutting-edge field of medicine that uses nanoparticles to simultaneously diagnose and treat diseases. Chemical engineers at EPFL have now developed a novel nanotheranostic system that uses tunable light to activate or image nanoparticles, thus opening … Continue reading →