07.05.19 – Using a novel approach, EPFL physicists have been able to create ultrafast electron vortex beams, with significant implications for fundamental physics, quantum computing, future data-storage, and even certain medical treatments. In Jules Verne’s famous classic Twenty Thousand Leagues … Continue reading →
07.05.19 – Professor Xile Hu has been named winner of the prestigious Homogeneous Catalysis Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Hu, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has won the award for original contributions to base metal … Continue reading →
07.05.19 – Professor Nicolai Cramer has been named winner of the prestigious Merck, Sharp & Dohme Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Cramer, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has won the award for the development of … Continue reading →
07.05.19 – Professor Majed Chergui has been named winner of the prestigious Liversidge Award from the Royal Society of Chemistry. Professor Chergui, of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, has won the award for pioneering picosecond and femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy … Continue reading →
04.05.19 – EPFL physicists have developed a method based on the principles of holograms to capture 3D images of objects beyond the reach of light. Photography measures how much light of different color hits the photographic film. However, light is … Continue reading →
03.05.19 – The Switzerland-India Joint Science Committee met on 30th April and set the course for closer bilateral cooperation in the field of research. Paul Dyson represented the Swiss National Science Foundation at this meeting based on his role within … Continue reading →
03.05.19 – The chemistry of metal oxides: a rewarding challenge! The ability to tune thin oxide coatings by wet-chemistry is desirable for many applications, yet it remains a key synthetic challenge. In this work, we introduce a general colloidal atomic … Continue reading →
02.05.19 – Her novel work on novel fabrication routes for ultrathin carbon molecular sieve (CMS) film has been published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces! The work demonstrated CMS films with thicknesses as small as 100 nm, yielding attractive gas-sieving … Continue reading →
02.05.19 – Benjamin Lambert has just been awarded the 2019 Chemistry Travel Award from the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS). Benjamin Lambert has just been awarded the 2019 Chemistry Travel Award from the Swiss … Continue reading →
02.05.19 – Professor Tobias Kippenberg has won a Proof of Concept grant from the European Research Council. The Proof of Concept (PoC) grants are given annually by the European Research Council (ERC) to researchers who already hold other ERC grants, … Continue reading →