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- Alternative production method für Cu-64 needed for medical applications
The copper isotope Cu-64 plays an important role in medicine: it is used in imaging processes and also shows potential for cancer therapy. However, it does not occur naturally and must be produced ... - Determine and eliminate microplastics in the inflow and outflow of wastewater treatment plants
The danger of microplastics for the environment and health has become increasingly recognised in recent years. They enter the water cycle via wastewater from households and rainwater discharged fro... - New computational method to calculate the forces between large molecules
Why can geckos walk up walls? Why does nitrogen become liquid at -196 °C? Many everyday phenomena can be explained by van der Waals forces - weak bonds between molecules that are notoriously diffic... - A new microscope for ultra-sensitive samples
How can you produce the best possible image in a microscope without destroying the sample? A new trick enables gentle imaging with maximum image quality. Everyone who ever took a photo knows th... - New kind of laser deveolped
Researchers in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), opens an external URL in a new window and TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) have invented a new type of tunable... - Manipulating the microorganism T. kivui to metabolize carbon monoxide
Genetic changes can occur naturally through evolution or can be initiated with the help of genetic engineering. The bacterium Thermoanaerobacter kivui (T. kivui) was manipulated by a research team ... - A chip with natural blood vessels
How can we investigate the effects of a new drug? How can we better understand the interaction between different organs to grasp the systemic response? In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a... - Non-toxic synthesis method for "miracle material" MXene
The nanomaterial MXene is used for battery technology or as a high-performance lubricant. Until now, its production was difficult and toxic. New methods have been developed at TU Wien. It is on... - The metal that does not expand
Breakthrough in materials research: an alloy of several metals has been developed that shows practically no thermal expansion over an extremely large temperature interval. Most metals expand wh...
- Detailed structure of the aluminum oxide surface uncovered
Aluminum oxide, also known as alumina, corundum, sapphire, or ruby, is one of the best insulators used in a wide range of applications: in electronic components, as a support material for catalysts... - Understanding microplastics - with high-speed cameras
Microplastics are a global problem: they end up in rivers and oceans, they accumulate in living organisms and disrupt entire ecosystems. How tiny particles behave in a current is difficult to descr... - Searching for a sustainable solution without fossil bitumen
Asphalt is the world's most important road construction material. In Germany, around 95 per cent of all road surfaces consist of this material - a mixture of aggregates and bitumen, a black petrole... - The rock that creates clouds
Feldspar is very common in rocks. As atmospheric dust, this mineral contributes efficiently to cloud formation. Researchers at TU Wien have now discovered what happens during this process. Feld...
- Aerosols: When scents influence our climate
One of the great unknowns in climate models is the behavior of certain gases that often smell strongly and cause water to condense. TU Wien (Vienna) is providing new insights into this. It has ... - New Invention for more Efficient Atomic Force Microscopes
Tiny tips on cantilevers are used to scan a surface in an atomic force microscope. A new invention from TU Wien now provides a simpler way to measure the result. The basic principle of the atomi... - From greenhouse gas to value-added product
Thinking of CO2, terms like climate-damaging or waste product probably quickly come to mind. While CO2 has been that for a long time - a pure waste product - more and more processes are being devel... - New oxygen-ion battery - durable, without rare elements or problem of fire hazards
Lithium-ion batteries are ubiquitous today - from electric cars to smartphones. But that does not mean that they are the best solution for all areas of application. TU Wien has now succeeded in dev...
- Recycling Greenhouse Gases
CO2 and methane can be turned into valuable products. But until now, the catalysts required for such reactions quickly lose their effectiveness. TU Wien has now developed more stable alternatives. ... - Miniaturized Lab-on-a-Chip for real-time Chemical Analysis of Liquids
A fingertip-sized chip replaces bulky laboratory equipment. An infrared sensor has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna) that analyses the content of liquids within the fraction of a second. In an... - Climate protection: CO2 turned into methanol
For reasons of climate protection, carbon dioxide must not be released into the atmosphere. Wherever the formation of carbon dioxide cannot be prevented, it should be captured and converted into ot... - Light instead of electricity: a new Kknd of "Green Hydrogen"
Hydrogen could be an important part of our future energy supply: It can be stored, transported and burned as needed. However, most of the hydrogen available today is a by-product of natural gas pro... - A chemical reactor that can store energy without loss for months
Storing energy over the long term is arguably the biggest unsolved problem of the energy transition. A new type of chemical heat storage system has now been invented at TU Wien (Vienna) that can st...
- Symbionts sans frontieres: Bacterial partners travel the world
This pandemic year has seen us confined to our homes and restricted from travelling the world. Not so for some microscopic bacteria in the ocean: Throughout the globe, they partner up with clams fr... - Superconductors. an allegedly sensational effect does not exist at all
A single measurement result is not a proof - this has been shown again and again in science. We can only really rely on a research result when it has been measured several times, preferably by diff... - Tracking down the tiniest of forces: how T cells detect invaders
T-cells play a central role in our immune system: by means of their so-called T-cell receptors (TCR) they make out dangerous invaders or cancer cells in the body and then trigger an immune reaction...