26.04.21 – Mechanical engineers and mathematicians at EPFL have joined forces to gain a better understanding of the geometry and mechanics of two filaments in contact – as in the cases of knots and woven fabrics. Pedro Reis, head of … Continue reading →
22.04.21 – Excitation gratings created by interference of two light waves on a material allow investigating transport phenomena at a scale comparable to their wavelength. Going to the X-rays allows accessing these phenomena at the nanoscale. Image: A pulsed beam of … Continue reading →
22.04.21 – EPFL scientists have developed ultralow-loss silicon nitride integrated circuits that are central for many photonic devices, such as chip-scale frequency combs, narrow-linewidth lasers, coherent LiDAR, and neuromorphic computing. Encoding information into light, and transmitting it through optical fibers … Continue reading →
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 →