Electrical and electronic engineering
Moving towards low-carbon road transport
Research
PSI
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have presented a concept for decarbonising transport while keeping it economically competitive. Increasing the utilisation of carbon dioxide from biogas plants plays an important role.
Spark Award 2024: procedure for recycling rare earth metals receives award
Research
ETH Zurich
The prize for the most promising invention of the past year goes to Marie Amélie Perrin and Victor Mougel. They have developed a method that enables rare earth elements to be efficiently recovered from electrical waste.
One-way street for sound waves
Research
ETH Zurich
Researchers at ETH Zurich have managed to make sound waves travel only in one direction. In the future, this method could also be used in technical applications with electromagnetic waves.
Is air conditioning a threat to the power grid?
Research
EPFL
The elevated temperatures this summer prompted many of us to crank up the air conditioning. In Switzerland, the energy used for cooling is approaching that for heating. What does that mean for power grids?
A 2D device for quantum cooling
Research
EPFL
EPFL engineers have created a device that can efficiently convert heat into electrical voltage at temperatures lower than that of outer space. The innovation could help overcome a significant obstacle to the advancement of quantum computing technologies, which require extremely low temperatures to function optimally.
Innovative battery design: more energy and less environmental impact
Research
ETH Zurich
A new electrolyte design for lithium metal batteries could significantly boost the range of electric vehicles. Researchers at ETH Zurich have radically reduced the amount of environmentally harmful fluorine required to stabilise these batteries.
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