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Making Aircraft Fuel From Sunlight and Air
The technology is now sufficiently mature for use in industrial applications
08-Nov-2021
Scientists at ETH Zurich have built a plant that can produce carbon-neutral liquid fuels from sunlight and air. The next goal will be to take this technology to industrial scale and achieve competitiveness. In a paper published in the scientific journal "Nature", researchers from Zurich and ...
Illuminating tissue formation
09-Aug-2021
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a molecule that fluoresces where new tissue is forming in the body. Alongside helping to detect tumours, the molecule could play a significant role in research of wound healing disorders. Collagen is the most abundant protein in the human body. It makes up ...
A promising breakthrough: Nanocrystals made of amalgam
09-Aug-2021
Researchers at ETH have managed to produce nanocrystals made of two different metals using an amalgamation process whereby a liquid metal penetrates a solid one. This new and surprisingly intuitive technique makes it possible to produce a vast array of intermetallic nanocrystals with tailored ...
High-precision frequency measurement
03-Aug-2021
Many scientific experiments require highly precise time measurements with the help of a clearly defined frequency. Now, a new approach allows the direct comparison of frequency measurements in the lab with the atomic clock in Bern, Switzerland. For many scientific experiments, today’s researchers ...
Harnessing AI to discover new drugs inspired by nature
"Virtual chemist" finds molecules that have the same effect as a natural substance but are simpler and low-cost to produce
08-Jul-2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) is able to recognise the biological activity of natural products in a targeted manner, as researchers at ETH Zurich have demonstrated. Moreover, AI helps to find molecules that have the same effect as a natural substance but are easier to manufacture. This opens up ...
The Achilles heel of the Coronavirus
Frameshifting as possible target for antiviral drug development
19-May-2021
SARS-CoV-2 is critically dependent on a special mechanism for the production of its proteins. A collaborative team led by a research group at ETH Zurich obtained molecular insights into this process and demonstrated that it can be inhibited by chemical compounds, thereby significantly reducing ...
Designing better antibody drugs with artificial intelligence
20-Apr-2021
Machine learning methods help to optimise the development of antibody drugs. This leads to active substances with improved properties, also with regard to tolerability in the body. Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few ...
Cells as computers
Such reprogrammed cells could perform medical tasks in our bodies, such as diagnosing diseases or providing treatment
10-Mar-2021
Scientists at ETH Zurich are working to develop information-processing switching systems in biological cells. Now, for the first time, they have developed an OR switch in human cells that reacts to different signals. Biological cells might one day be equipped with artificial genetic programs ...
Decoding the way catalysts work
Good catalytic performance is driven chiefly by processes that occur on the surface of the catalyst – and not electrochemical processes
20-Nov-2020
Splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen is an important chemical reaction, especially considering that the use of hydrogen as an energy source in sustainable mobility in the future. An international research team has now decoded how one of the catalysts used in this reaction works. Hydrogen is a ...
A 40-year-old catalyst unveils its secrets
Findings will help catalyst research take an important step forward
30-Oct-2020
“Titanium silicalite-1” (TS-1) is not a new catalyst: It has been almost 40 years since its development and the discovery of its ability to convert propylene into propylene oxide, an important basic chemical in the chemical industry. Now, by combining various methods, a team of scientists from ...
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