News 2022

Apr 28, 2022 | Engine Technology
In recent years, Empa has worked with an external hydraulics specialist to develop a fully variable electrohydraulic valve control system. called FlexWork, which can be used for internal combustion engines and other...
Apr 25, 2022 | Empa’s Annual Report 2021 now online
Empa’s Annual Report 2021 leads you on a gripping journey through the world of research and innovation; you may be surprised at how broad the term "applied research" is defined at Empa.
Apr 20, 2022 | Build digitally
Digital construction using Building Information Modeling – BIM for short – is a trend for the future: more efficient, less expensive and more transparent, from design to operation of the building. The new Empa and Eawag...
Apr 19, 2022 | Archäologie
Vergangenes Jahr leistete die Empa der Archäologie Baselland wertvolle Hilfe: Ein Schatz mit 1’290 Münzen aus dem 4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. war gefunden worden. Der umsichtige Hobby-Archäologe hatte die Fundstelle abgedeckt...
Apr 14, 2022 | Chemical synthesis
Chemical syntheses in liquids and gases take place in three-dimensional space. Random collisions between molecules have to result in something new in an extremely short time. But there is another way: on a gold surface...
Apr 11, 2022 | Portrait Rolf Erni
As head of Empa's Electron Microscopy Center, Rolf Erni has to balance many tasks: negotiating industrial contracts, promoting young scientists, teaching, supporting researchers at other Empa labs. And fascinating...
Apr 8, 2022 | Ukrainische Forscherin an der Empa
Die ukrainische Physikerin Oksana S*. ist von Moskau in die Schweiz geflohen. Nach einem stapaziösen Weg über Polen startet die Forscherin nun im «Advanced Analytical Technologies»-Labor der Empa. Im Interview erzählt...
Apr 7, 2022 | Energy turnaround
If 60% of the conventional gasoline- and diesel-powered passenger cars in Switzerland were to be converted to "electricity-based" vehicles by 2050, i.e., battery vehicles, hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles and vehicles...
Apr 5, 2022 | Agricultural development
Empa and BASE (Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy) launched a data-science driven mobile app that aims to minimize the loss of food production and lower greenhouse gas emissions by enabling access to cooling facilities...
Mar 31, 2022 | Novel batteries for a circular economy
The research project CircuBAT aims to create a circular business model for the production, application and recycling of lithium-ion batteries used for mobility purposes. Seven Swiss research institutions and 24 companies...
Mar 29, 2022 | Smart bandage
A bandage that releases medication as soon as an infection starts in a wound could treat injuries more efficiently. Empa researchers are currently working on polymer fibers that soften as soon as the environment heats up...
Mar 24, 2022 | Engine Technology
The ComprexTM supercharger, like the turbocharger, is a Swiss invention. The Comprex uses pressure waves in direct contact of the exhaust gas with fresh air for supercharging, while a turbocharger couples two flow...
Mar 18, 2022 | ERC Consolidator Grant for Mirko Kovac
Mirko Kovac has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant from Horizon Europe, the EU's key funding program for research and innovation. Kovac, a researcher at both Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science...
Mar 18, 2022 | Equal pay in the ETH Domain
The ETH Board had the six institutions of the ETH Domain check whether women and men are paid the same for the same work. The results are encouraging: nowhere was the difference greater than 2 %. Up to 5 % is considered...
Mar 17, 2022 | Improving urban planning thanks to Superblocks
To meet the challenges in cities related to climate change and increasing urbanization, new approaches to transforming urban space are needed. One possibility are so-called Superblocks, large-scale city blocks with...
Mar 14, 2022 | Noise perception
Kurt Heutschi, a senior scientist in Empa's Acoustics / Noise Control lab, explains what noise does and why we perceive sound so differently.
Mar 10, 2022 | ETH Zurich appoints Empa researcher
ETH Zurich has awarded Empa researcher Daniele Passerone the title of professor. He has been working at Empa since 2006 and heads the "Atomistic Simulations" team of Empa's nanotech@surfaces laboratory.
Mar 10, 2022 | Nanomedicine
Radiation therapy is one of the cornerstones of cancer therapy. However, some types of tumor respond little or hardly at all to radiation. If it were possible to make tumor cells more sensitive, treatment would be more...
Mar 9, 2022 | Data-driven agriculture
The growth in the global demand for food has driven farmers to pick up data-driven tools in tandem with their traditional farming equipment. By doing so, they hope to increase their future yields and profits. However,...
Mar 8, 2022 | International Women's Day
Empa has been committed to creating equal opportunities for women and men for several decades. On the occasion of International Women's Day on March 8, 2022, the institution presents seven women from research whose...
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