07.10.19 – Michael Grätzel and Paul Dyson present the prizes at the closing ceremony of the 5th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics hosted by Prof. Md. K. Nazeeruddin. .
Continue reading →07.10.19 – Depolymerizing biomass using protection group chemistry “For his discovery of the acetal functionalization of lignin and carbohydrates, which prevent degradation reactions during the extraction of these fractions from plant matter. Acetal formation notably enables the isolation of lignin, … Continue reading →
01.10.19 – Tatsuya Nakada has been awarded the Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society. Given by the Italian Physical Society (IPS) since 2001, the prestigious Enrico Fermi Prize is awarded to commemorate the great physicist and Nobel laureate, … Continue reading →
01.10.19 – Our manuscript entitled ‘In-Situ Observation of Coulomb Fission of Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles’ has been accepted for publication in ACS Nano. Publication in ACS Nano Annick Gaudin Delmonaco
Continue reading →30.09.19 – EPFL Professor Zsolt Patakfalvi has received a starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to work on the classification of varieties. The ERC Starting Grants are given each year to researchers of any nationality and in any … Continue reading →
30.09.19 – At its meeting of 25-26 September 2019, the ETH Board has appointed Mitali Banerjee and Adam Marcus as Tenure Track Assistant Professors and Jacques Duparc as Adjunct Professor Dr Mitali Banerjee was named as Tenure Track Assistant Professor … Continue reading →
30.09.19 – At its meeting of 25-26 September 2019, the ETH Board has announced the promotion of Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral to full professor and promoted Beat Fierz to associate professor. Professor Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf was named as … Continue reading →
23.09.19 – Giacomo Rosilho de Souza (ANMC) was awarded the Butcher prize 2019 for the best paper by a PhD student at the International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations (SciCADE). The John Butcher Prize in Numerical Analysis was … Continue reading →
21.09.19 – A diaphragm made of carbon baffles was installed in the TCV tokamak. The diaphragm separates the hot plasma from the region where particles escaping from the plasma interact with the vessel wall, creating a sort of an exhaust … Continue reading →
20.09.19 – Alice Gillen and coauthors publish the article “Non-covalent methods of engineering optical sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes” in the journal Frontiers in Chemistry. Optical sensors based on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) demonstrate tradeoffs that limit their use … Continue reading →