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- Saving platinum in hydrogen production
Hydrogen is expected to become an important energy carrier of the future, particularly for industrial applications. But this requires climate-friendly technologies that split water into hydrogen an... - X-ray light on demand: For the first time, its frequency can be tuned continuously
Ultrashort laser pulses can be used to generate X-rays. Normally, however, only certain specific frequencies are produced. A team from TU Wien and the University of California San Diego has now dev... - The quantum computer microscope significantly improve electron microscopy
Electron microscopes are used wherever particularly small details need to be imaged. But from a strictly physical point of view, every electron in a conventional electron microscope represents a mi... - New material made of MXene and gold for more efficient ammonia production
Plants need nitrogen fertilizers, which are usually ammonia-based. Ammonia is therefore one of the most important chemical products of all. However, its production is currently extremely energy... - The hidden roughness of sapphire surface
Sometimes geometry determines what is chemically possible: As TU Wien has now shown, tiny irregularities can completely change the chemical behavior of a surface. Why do certain surfaces behave... - The structure of water: Entropy determines whether ions stick
Water molecules are constantly in motion, but on average they can form preferred patterns of order. TU Wien has now shown that this has a major influence on charged particles, for example in electr... - Certain minerals can convert CO2 into solid carbonate
Rocks can bind carbon dioxide - and much faster than previously thought. For a long time, it was assumed that the transformation of CO2 into carbonate rock depends on very slow, time-consuming proc... - Semiconductor industry is relying on the wrong materials
The miniaturization of electronic components has been a tremendous success story, driving technological progress for decades. Work is already underway on the next revolution in computer chips: 2D m... - Discovered by chance: the refractive-index microscope
A remarkable success has been achieved at TU Wien: by combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the optical properties of a sample with pinpoint accur...
- 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...