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• How do ionic liquids diffuse in nanopores?
  Supercapacitors are up-and-coming, energy storage devices, often used to store energy from renewable energy sources like wind turbines where power is intermittent. They combine the best of batt...
• Antibacterial cellulose - a wound dressing that kills bacteria
  In order to combat bacterial wound infections, Empa researchers have developed cellulose membranes equipped with antimicrobial peptides. Initial results show: The skin-friendly membranes made of pl...
• Efficient valves for electron spins
  Researchers at the University of Basel in collaboration with colleagues from Pisa have developed a new concept that uses the electron spin to switch an electrical current. In addition to fundame...
• Programmable synthetic materials
  In DNA, information is stored in the sequence of chemical building blocks; in computers, information consists of sequences of zeros and ones. Researchers want to transfer this concept to artificial...
• Spintronics: Make non-magnetic materials magnetic
  A complex process can modify non-magnetic oxide materials in such a way to make them magnetic. The basis for this new phenomenon is controlled layer-by-layer growth of each material. An internat...
• Anode Material for Safe Batteries with a Long Cycle Life
  Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Jilin University in Changchun/China investigated a highly promising anode material for future high-performance batteries - lithium lanthan...
• Insights into the structure of an enigmatic catalyst
  In the past, the catalyst for the production of methanol had eluded all attempts to clarify its surface structure. Now researchers have learned more about its active site. Methanol is one of the...
• Higher resolution structure determination of macromolecules in their native context
  Cryo-electron tomography that was combined with subtomogram averaging (StA) has yielded high-resolution structures of macromolecules in their native context. However, high-resolution StA is not com...
• Mechanism for the formation of blood platelets discovered
  A healthy human produces about 100 billion platelets per day, or more than one million platelets per second. Just how the organism manages this enormous task, has now been discovered by physicists ...
• Joint Position Paper on Horizon Europe Missions issued by Europe's Analytical Research Infrastructures
  Moon-shot missions, such as those of Horizon Europe, require exceptional solutions, and the world-leading Analytical Research Infrastructures of Europe (ARIEs) are one of the key places those solut...