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A brief history of perovskites

Apr 25, 2024 | The word “perovskite” describes a naturally occurring mineral, but also a whole range of highly specialized synthetic compounds that have promising applications in electronics and photovoltaics. But what do they actually have in common? Who discovere...
Swiss team wins Not-a-Boring Competition 2024 in Texas

1st place for Swissloop Tunneling

Apr 22, 2024 | At the final of the Not-a-Boring Competition 2024 in Bastrop, Texas, the team from Swissloop Tunneling came out on top thanks to a successful drilling process with a self-developed micro-tunneling machine. The team of students from ETH Zurich, suppor...
Bright Minds: a special livestream on Mining the Atmosphere

Why negative CO2 emissions are desperately needed – Bright Minds provides answers

Apr 18, 2024 | Technical solutions are essential to counteract climate change effectively and as quickly as possible. With its large-scale research initiative Mining the Atmosphere, Empa is proposing nothing less than a paradigm shift: from a CO2-emitting to a CO2-...

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