03.12.18 – Ten professors from EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences have been included in the Web of Science’s 2018 Highly Cited Researchers list. Since 2014, Clarivate Analytics, has produced an annual Highly Cited Researchers list of scientists whose publications the previous 10 years … Continue reading →
30.11.18 – Professor Christian Theiler at the Swiss Plasma Center (EPFL) has been awarded an “Enabling Research Grant” from the EUROfusion Consortium to lead a collaborative research project in the physics of tokamaks. The Enabling Research Grant is described as … Continue reading →
22.11.18 – Professor Jeremy Luterbacher has been awarded the Swiss Chemical Society’s Werner Prize for 2019. The Werner Prize is awarded annually to promising young Swiss scientists or scientists working in Switzerland under 40 to recognize “their outstanding research in … Continue reading →
12.11.18 – EPFL scientists have developed a uranium-based complex that allows nitrogen fixation reactions to take place in ambient conditions. The work lays the foundation to develop new processes for synthesizing nitrogen products like cyanamide. Abundant in nature (78% of … Continue reading →
08.11.18 – A material developed by EPFL scientists can rapidly extract trace amounts of gold from waste water, fresh water, ocean water, and even sewage sludge. Gold has been the basis of currency for many civilizations throughout history. Despite this, only … Continue reading →
05.11.18 – Researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering have developed a photocatalytic system based on a material in the class of metal-organic frameworks. The system can be used to degrade pollutants present in water while simultaneously producing … Continue reading →
31.10.18 – Professor Majed Chergui has been voted a Fellow of the American Crystallographic Association. The American Crystallographic Association (ACA) is a non-profit, scientific organization of over 1,300 members in more than 35 countries. Founded in 1949, the ACA’s objective … Continue reading →
29.10.18 – EPFL scientists have developed a machine-learning approach that can be combined with experiments to determine, in record time, the location of atoms in powdered solids. Their method can be applied to complex molecules containing thousands of atoms and … Continue reading →
29.10.18 – EPFL researchers from Michael Grätzel’s lab show how stable, scalable, and efficient perovskite solar cells can be produced through molecular engineering of multifunctional molecular modulators and using solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance to investigate their role in double-cation pure-iodide perovskites. Published in Nature Communications. … Continue reading →
19.10.18 – Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago and Dr Amita Ummadisingu, researchers at EPFL’s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC), have won the first and second Clariant CleanTech Awards in 2018. Clariant is a speciality chemicals company headquartered in Basel and operating … Continue reading →