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Empa pioneers atomic-precision hybrid of porphyrins and graphene nanoribbons for future quantum and electronic devices

(IN BRIEF) Empa researchers, working with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, have for the first time attached porphyrin molecules with functional metal centers to graphene nanoribbons with atomic precision. Published in Nature Chemistry, the work creates a hybrid … Read the full press release

Empa Breakthrough: Nanographene “Quantum Lego” Brings Heisenberg’s Theories to Life in New Spin Chain Models

(IN BRIEF) Empa researchers from the nanotech@surfaces laboratory have experimentally recreated two fundamental quantum physics models originally inspired by Werner Heisenberg using innovative “quantum Lego” constructed from nanographenes. Building on a previous success with the alternating Heisenberg model, the team, … Read the full press release

Empa Researcher Eve Ammerman Receives Fellowship to Explore Quantum Technologies and Light Integration

(IN BRIEF) Eve Ammerman, a researcher at Empa, has received a two-year Young Scientist Fellowship to explore the intersection of quantum technologies and light. Her project seeks to enable quantum devices to communicate with existing technologies by combining nanographene molecules … Read the full press release

Empa: Forscher baut kleine Kraftwerke aus Graphen-Nanobändern, die aus Wärme Strom erzeugen können

(PRESSEMITTEILUNG) DÜBENDORF, 18-Jan-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Die Empa, das Schweizer Forschungsinstitut für angewandte Materialwissenschaften und Technologie, hat bekannt gegeben, dass der Forscher Mickael L. Perrin plant, winzige Kraftwerke aus Graphen-Nanobändern zu bauen, die Strom erzeugen können Strom aus Wärme. Mickaels … Read the full press release

Empa: Researcher to make small power plants from graphene nanoribbons that can generate electricity from heat

(PRESS RELEASE) DÜBENDORF, 18-Jan-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Empa, the Swiss research institute for applied materials sciences and technology, has announced that the researcher Mickael L. Perrin plans to build tiny power plants from graphene nanoribbons that can generate electricity from … Read the full press release