22.03.18 – The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has unveiled new X-ray methods to detect technological fraud in biking competitions. EPFL’s Institute of Physics offered scientific and technological support to the project. Advances in performance of batteries and electric motors has … Continue reading →
20.03.18 – Scientists at EPFL and GRT Group have built the world’s first integrated power supply unit that can produce electricity from formic acid, using a fuel cell in an energy-efficient, safe, cost-effective, and sustainable way. When it comes to … Continue reading →
15.03.18 – Chemical Engineers at EPFL have developed a new method for making metal-organic framework membranes that can be used to considerably improve energy-expensive processes such as propylene-propane separation, which accounts for 40% of energy used in the global petrochemical … Continue reading →
15.03.18 – EPFL chemists have developed a new material that can remove heavy metals from water and make it drinkable in seconds. The study is published in ACS Central Science. According to the World Health Organization almost 1 billion people … Continue reading →
15.03.18 – EPFL scientists have produced controllable stable skyrmions using laser pulses, taking a step towards significantly more energy-efficient memory devices. The work is published in Physical Review Letters. A skyrmion is a collection of electron spins that look like … Continue reading →
09.03.18 – At its meeting of 7-8 March 2018, the ETH Board has announced the appointment of Christoph Bosted as full professor at EPFL. Christoph Bostedt was named as Full Professor of Physical Chemistry in the School of Basic Sciences (SB) and Head … Continue reading →
08.03.18 – Professor Majed Chergui is one of the five laureates of the 2018 Khwarizmi International Award.The Khwarizmi International Award (KIA) was established in 1987 in memory of Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi (ca. 780-850 AD), the famous Iranian … Continue reading →
05.03.18 – Chaperones are specialized proteins in the cell that help other proteins to reach their functional 3D shapes, which correspond to the states preferred at thermodynamic equilibrium. But a new study by EPFL, UNIL and INSERM (France) scientists shows … Continue reading →
02.03.18 – Researchers from EPFL, the Technical University of Berlin and the University of Bremen have investigated nanolasers made from a gallium nitride semiconductor material and revealed their optical properties, paving the way for applications ranging from photonic circuits to optogenetics. … Continue reading →
24.02.18 – Microresonator-based optical frequency combs enable highly-precise optical distance ranging at a rate of 100 million measurements per second – publication in Science: Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have demonstrated … Continue reading →