Can we undo the burning of oil, gas and coal?

Platform chemicals from CO2: Defects welcome

08-Mar-2024 - Is it possible to convert CO2 back to fuels or other useful chemicals? Absolutely – but not in a very targeted way just yet. Empa researcher Alessandro Senocrate is looking at defects in materials that will help us achieve this goal. Can we undo the burning of oil, gas and coal? With a renewable ...

Sustainable fuels and base chemicals for Switzerland

Launch of reFuel.ch: "reFuel.ch" is investigating how fossil fuels can be replaced by sustainable energy sources

13-Dec-2023 - The aim of thereFuel.chconsortium is to develop robust supply paths for sustainable fuels and basechemicals for Switzerland. The consortium is funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE) as part of the SWEET funding program and held its kick-off event on 8 December 2023. Nine Swiss ...

Chemicals could undercut global plastics treaty

Plastic pollution: Scientists raise red flag

24-Nov-2022 - From 28 November to 2 December 2022, the UN intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC) on plastic pollution will meet in Uruguay to develop an international legally binding instrument against plastic pollution. There is concern among scientists that the negotiations will overlook the diversity ...

A GPS from the chemistry set

Color trail shows quickest route to destination

29-Oct-2014 - Empa scientists teamed up with colleagues from Hungary, Japan and Scotland to develop a chemical “processor” which reliably shows the fastest way through a City maze. As the method is basically faster than a satnav system, it could be useful in transport planning and logistics in the future, for ...

Ordered two-dimensional polymers created for the first time

20-Feb-2012 - Swiss scientists have created a minor sensation in synthetic chemistry. The team of scientists from ETH Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, succeeded for the first time in producing regularly ordered planar polymers that form a kind of «molecular ...