17.07.17 – EPFL scientists have developed a ligand molecule that connects peptide drugs to blood-serum albumin and keeps them from being cleared out by the kidneys too soon. The ligand is easy to synthesize and can extend the half-life of … Continue reading →
14.07.17 – EPFL Chemist Professor Xile Hu has won the “2017 Tajima Prize” from The International Society of Electrochemistry for his work in electrocatalysis. The Tajima Prize of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) is given annually to electrochemists under 40 years … Continue reading →
13.07.17 – Amita Ummadisingu, a PhD student with Michael Grätzel’s lab, was invited to attend this year’s Lindau meeting and present her work published in Nature. Each year, at Lindau (Germany) on the shores of Lake Constance, Nobel laureates and … Continue reading →
13.07.17 – Dr Michael Saliba has received the Science Award of the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology (UMSICHT) for his work on perovskite/silicon tandems. The Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology (UMSICHT) is part of the Fraunhofer … Continue reading →
07.07.17 – At its meeting of 5-6 July 2017, the ETH Board has awarded the title of adjunct professor to two researchers of the School of Basic Sciences (SB). Frédéric Courbin, currently Senior Scientist at EPFL, has been promoted to Adjunct Professor. Frédéric Courbin is an … Continue reading →
30.06.17 – A team of five EPFL Mathematics Master students has won first place in an international data-mining competition. The Data Mining Cup (DMC) is an international competition organized each year by prudsys AG, a leading data-mining company. The aim … Continue reading →
29.06.17 – The recent upgrade of the Thomson Scattering system provides greatly enhanced spatial and spectral resolution for the temperature and density profile measurements of TCV plasmas. The TCV tokamak was recently shut down to upgrade its Thomson Scattering (TS) diagnostic. Right after … Continue reading →
12.06.17 – EPFL mathematician Alfio Quarteroni and his team are building a virtual heart model based on personalized medical images that may one day help cardiologists and cardiac surgeons non-invasively diagnose pathological heart conditions. The team recently modeled and simulated … Continue reading →
08.06.17 – Researchers from EPFL and KIT use a soliton frequency combs from optical microresonators to transmit data at speeds of more than 50 terabits per second. Optical solitons are special wave packages that propagate without changing their shape. They … Continue reading →
06.06.17 – Nicolas Grandjean received the Quantum Devices Award for “fundamental contributions to the physics and technology of III-nitride quantum structures” during the Compound Semiconductor Week 2017 organized in Berlin. The Award, attributed every year, honors pioneering contributions to the … Continue reading →