The Empa spin-off Swiss Cluster has received the Swiss Economic Award 2026 in the "Industry/Production" category. The young company develops equipment for vacuum-based thin-film processes. This technology can be used to protect complex components or create functional thin films with unparalleled mec...

Sunlight, water, air and metal-organic catalysts – that could be all it takes: TU Wien has shown how catalyst design can be advanced for solar-driven NH3 synthesis. Without this chemical technology, feeding the world as we know it would be nearly impossible. The Haber–Bosch process, developed more t...