Access your literature from anywhere with unlimited #Zotero cloud storage! We have acquired an institutional licence for all researchers of @eawag.bsky.social, @empa-materials.bsky.social, @psi.ch and @wslresearch.bsky.social / @slfdavos.bsky.social Learn more: www.lib4ri.ch/now-availabl...

#Graphene as a test case for #safeandsustainablebydesign: Empa researchers show how safety and sustainability can be built in from the start – by linking material design, exposure pathways, and real-world applications. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/ssbd-graphen #ssbd #empamaterialsscience

🚧A 30 m tower is being installed at the RADO-Bucharest station for the @im4ca.bsky.social project, in collaboration with @empa-materials.bsky.social 🇨🇭. The campaign will measure methane isotopes, ethane, CO₂, carbon isotopes, and 3D wind to improve methane source attribution and emission estimates.

The final session focused on Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy, showcasing its power to probe electronic structure and nanoscale dynamics From instrumentation to data analysis, #EELS keeps expanding the frontiers of electron microscopy. @attolight.bsky.social #EPFL #CEA @empa-materials.bsky.social

Less #animaltesting thanks to #AI: Empa researchers have developed a digital mouse model that predicts how #nanomaterials are distributed in the body. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/ki-mausmodell-bringt-medizinische-forschung-voran #safeandsustainablebydesign #ssbd #empamaterialsscience

Green #hydrogen doesn't always have to be costly to produce. Empa researchers and partners develop materials for water electrolysis that are ✅efficient ✅cost effective ✅can be scaled up for industry use https://fcld.ly/protis-green-hydrogen #greenenergy #renewables #empamaterialsscience

‪ Recording of our latest Eawag Seminar with Dr. Mashael Yazdanie from @empa-materials.bsky.social : "Charting new paths to living well within planetary limits, together: the Swiss Sufficiency Lab" youtu.be/Q__7yvTbat8

Congratulations from all the @nanotechsurflab.bsky.social team on successfully defending your PhD @Laric Bobzien!! 🎉🎓🥂 @empa-materials.bsky.social @ethz.ch

Outdoor activities often mean relying on waterproof performance clothing. Many of these textiles contain PFAS. Researchers at Empa develop PFAS-free alternatives together with textile manufacturers via a plasma coating system. https://fcld.ly/pfas_textilien #pfas #ssbd

Empa spin-off Lepto raising #terahertz #technology to new heights. With ultrathin, lightweight components, the company is enabling faster #communication – with applications for #space and future communication systems. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/lepto #empamaterialsscience

⚖️ Wie kommen wir zu Netto-Null? Der NEST-Podcast mit Peter Richner und Nathalie Casas, Koordinatorin SWEET ACHIEVE, über Herausforderungen und Lösungsansätze, wie wir CO2 künftig effektiv binden können. 🎧️Zur aktuellen Folge: https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast #NettoNull #SWEETACHIEVE

Progress towards more effective brain tumor treatment: Empa researchers are developing light-activated nanozymes that target cancer cells directly during surgery – precise and minimally invasive. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/nanozyme-gegen-gehirntumore #cancer #research #empamaterialsscience

Boost for high-performance ceramics: Empa researchers to enhance ceramic materials properties e.g. for medicine, mechanical engineering, electronics. Supported by Swiss National Science Foundation. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/hochleistungskeramik-dank-verbesserter-korngrenzflaechen #ceramics #snsf

Safe and Sustainable by Design (#SSbD): Empa researchers show why safe and sustainable #innovation pays off for companies – and how SSbD helps identify risks early and avoid costly missteps. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/designing-innovations-safely-and-sustainably-helps-industry

GEMS simulates geochemical time travel in seconds. A new consortium comprising PSI, ETHZ, Empa, the University of Bern, EPFL and Nagra is safeguarding the future of this unique PSI software platform. @nagra.bsky.social @unibe.ch @ethz.ch @empa-materials.bsky.social

🚨Early detection of micro blood clots could save lives. Empa researchers are mapping the composition of tiny blood clots linked to #stroke and other complications. Open-source model aims to make early detection and risk assessment available to everyone. www.empa.ch/web/s604/ear...

Von Schutzbekleidung über schwer entflammbare Holzwerkstoffe bis zur hitzeresistenten FireDrone: Die Empa entwickelt flammhemmende und nicht brennbare Materialien für mehr Sicherheit in Gebäuden, Mobilität und Einsatzsituationen. 🔗 https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/brandschutz-forschung-an-der-empa

From protective gear and wood‑based fire‑retardant materials to the heat‑resistant FireDrone: Empa is advancing flame‑retardant and fireproof materials for safer buildings, mobility and emergency response. 🔗https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/brandschutz-forschung-an-der-empa

Wie entstehen nachhaltige Lösungen für die Bauwirtschaft? Im NEST-Podcast diskutieren Peter Richner und Holger Wallbaum, Prof. für nachhaltiges Bauen an der Chalmers University, aktuelle Ansätze und Herausforderungen in Schweden. Die ganze Folge hier: https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast

Empa researcher Alessia Cesarini has been awarded the Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship 2026. She’s developing climate‑friendly gasoline compatible with today’s engines and fuel stations. 🔗https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/entrepreneur-fellowship-alessia-cesarini

Empa-Forscherin Alessia Cesarini erhält das Empa Entrepreneur Fellowship 2026. Sie entwickelt ein klimafreundliches Benzin, das in bestehenden Motoren und Tankstellen funktioniert. 🔗https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/entrepreneur-fellowship-alessia-cesarini

Advances in sustainable construction with less concrete and steel: European research team, incl. Empa, focuses on use of intelligent shapes, digital manufacturing, alternative binders. Structures can also be 3D-printed, dismantled, and reused. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/beton-aus-dem-3d-drucker

Versatile group of materials suitable for a wide range of applications, from #energystorage to #medicine: #MXenes, a new class of two-dimensional materials. Empa researchers make significant progress in modeling and synthesizing MXenes. www.empa.ch/web/s604/mxe... @nanotechsurflab.bsky.social

An elastic polymer electrolyte could boost the safety and energy density of #solidstate #batteries – and could be used, e.g. in #flexiblebatteries in #medtech. Developed by Empa researchers from the Laboratory for Functional Polymers. www.empa.ch/web/s604/fle...

Emerging #solarcell technologies – can they make it from the lab to the market? Empa researchers and collaborators publish paper in @nature.com Energy on conditions for successful collaboration between research and industry. www.empa.ch/web/s604/cig... #cigs #perovskite

We recently shared this research on fully compostable smart sensing tags: ➡️: bit.ly/44Ip59N — now you can take a deeper dive. Listen to more on the topic with Oleksandr, one of @csem.ch's engineers behind the work (🗣️FR only): bit.ly/4aLn9Qh @empa-materials.bsky.social erials.bsky.social EPFL

🌍️ Wie kreislaufgerecht bauen wir heute? 🏗️ 🎙️Der NEST-Podcast mit Peter Richner und Martin Pauli, Global Circular Economy Services Leader bei Arup, zu Realität, Herausforderungen und Entwicklungen der #Kreislaufwirtschaft im Bau. Die ganze Folge hören:https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast

🌍Invisible gases, visible impact: Empa researcher Alina Begley detects tiny, climate-relevant pollutants, building data that informs regulation. Restart Grant support allows her to resume research after maternity leave. www.empa.ch/web/s604/ali... #womeninscience #empamaterialsscience

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) hold exceptional promise for next-generation nanoelectronics. Prof. Mickael Perrin, Assistant Professor at D-ITET and Group Leader Quantum Devices @empa-materials.bsky.social, has co-authored an insightful Review in “Nature Reviews Materials”. ee.ethz.ch/news-and-eve...

Empa contributes to @esa.int -led research on the ISS. Through THERMOPROP and SESAME, Empa researchers are studying metallic glasses in microgravity and space exposure, strengthening materials science capabilities in orbit and beyond. www.empa.ch/web/s604/met... #empamaterialsscience

Muons receive funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation @snsf.ch, led by Paul Scherrer Institut and the University of Zurich, with involvement of Empa researchers. www.empa.ch/web/s604/ncc... #nccr #muoniverse #empamaterialsscience

Congratulations to Tanja Zimmermann for being re-elected by the Federal Council as director of Empa 👏 www.empa.ch/web/s604/wie... #empamaterialsscience

As part of the #ICOSCities project, Zurich now has 60 atmospheric sensors measuring real-time CO₂ levels across the city. For the first time, authorities can compare live atmospheric data with the traditional emissions inventory. 👉 Read more in FLUXES: www.icos-cp.eu/fluxes/4/tra...

FireDrone: first drone developed to withstand extreme heat while sending real-time data from danger zones. Developed at Empa and now continued as a spin-off. www.empa.ch/web/s604/fir... FireDrone: www.firedrone.com

Empa develops a “stress ECG” for #batteries by monitoring them in operando in the EU Green Deal project HyMetBat – boosting sustainable, high-performance #energystorage for #netzero. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/hymetbat #empamaterialsscience

Empa researchers and industry partner TI Solutions develop #polymer-based cables that enable #EEG, #ECG & stimulation inside #MRI – without heating or image distortion. www.empa.ch/web/s604/pol... #empamaterialsscience

⚡️Voller Energie ins neue Jahr! 🔋 🎙️Der NEST-Podcast mit Peter Richner und Cornelia Mellenberger, CEO Energie Wasser Bern, zu langfristiger #Versorgungssicherheit, Ausbau von #erneuerbarenEnergien und flexiblen Strompreisen. Zur aktuellen Folge: https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast

Empa researchers develop new kind of #epoxy resin – widely used as coatings, adhesives or as part of fiber-reinforced materials – that can be reprocessed, chemically recycled, is flame retardant and easy to manufacture. www.empa.ch/web/s604/fla... #empamaterialsscience

Empa researchers and partners investigate in new study how trifluoroacetic acid #TFA, the smallest molecule among #PFAS, enters water bodies via precipitation. Results show TFA concentrations have multiplied in recent decades. www.empa.ch/web/s604/tfa...

Empa researchers succeed in making thin interlayers in superinsulation for e.g. #satellites more resistant. Tech could also be used to improve #flexibleelectronics and #medicalsensors. www.empa.ch/web/s604/int...

Goncalo Catarina receives two-year Empa Young Scientist Fellowship for research into the calculation of quantum effects in carbon molecules @nanotechsurflab.bsky.social https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/young-scientist-fellowship-goncalo-catarina #nanotech #quantummaterials #empamaterialsscience

Ultrafast electron control⚡️In our new Nature Communications paper, we switch single-atom charge states in WSe₂ with picosecond THz pulses capturing atomic-scale ultrafast dynamics. @empa-materials.bsky.social @pennstatematse.bsky.social #QuantumMaterials #2Dmaterials www.nature.com/articles/s41...

No more cables with inductive charging of electric cars. Vehicle batteries may be used as flexible storage devices in the electricity grid. Empa researchers test this approach. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/induktives-laden #electricvehicle #energystorage #empamaterialsscience

Researchers from @empa-materials.bsky.social, EPFL & @csem.ch have created a fully compostable smart sensing tag that protects temperature-sensitive shipments like medicines, vaccines, and food. Now featured in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ Read more on our website: bit.ly/44Ip59N ➡️ Nature: bit.ly/4rvZfzC

Smart sensing tag developed by Empa, EPFL and CSEM researchers to protect sensitive goods in transit. The tag is completely biodegradable. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/greenspack #greenelectronics #sensortechnology #empamaterialsscience

Kann Beton das Klima retten? Wie CO₂ aus der Luft zur Ressource wird erklären die Initianten des revolutionären Projektes Mining the Atmosphere gleich selbst, in der Jubiläumsfolge des NEST-Podcasts. 🎧 Jetzt reinhören: https://www.empa.ch/web/nest/podcast

Reduce space junk ➡️ develop reusable satellites🛰️ Empa researchers use x-ray techniques to help optimize satellite design and enable reuse www.empa.ch/web/s604/eur... #space #reuse #xray #empamaterialsscience

#PFAS detected on Swiss ski slopes due to ski wax. Empa researchers urge cross-country skiers to switch to fluorine-free waxes. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/pfas-in-ski-wax

Empa researchers Maksym Kovalenko and Zhanyun Wang among the world's most frequently cited scientists in their respective fields. https://www.empa.ch/web/s604/highly-cited-researchers-2025 #HighlyCited2025

In future, flexibly operated heat pumps and electric cars could reduce both electricity imports and electricity prices. That is according to a new study by a Swiss research consortium led by ETH Zurich. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...