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Lara, welcome back!
We are excited to host Lara for a master thesis, starting today! The plans are ambitious, good luck for your experiments, Lara!
Maksym delivers two talks and a poster at ECIS2024
Over 700 scientists gathered for the annual ECIS2024 conference, hosted by the European Colloid & Interface Society. An amazing experience - new friends, sunny Copenhagen, and a wealth of new ideas in colloidal science!
Hanglin publishes his Master Thesis in Advanced Electronic Materials
Phase change memory devices are high-performance but costly to fabricate. Our paper explores drop-on-demand inkjet printing as a cost-effective alternative. We provide a guide to optimal printing parameters, examine structural properties, and demonstrate non-volatile, cyclable printed phase change memory devices.
Paper on Cu-Ge-Te nanoparticles in Chemistry of Materials
Our amide-promoted synthesis is amazingly universal! We used it to develop a full-fledged approach for Cu-Ge-Te nanoparticles. Various phases, unconventional phase-change properties, in-situ crystallization, and more in our recent Chemistry of Materials paper
Dhananjey defends his PhD thesis
We are extremely happy to have graduated Dhananjey from the CMD lab. Congratulations, Dr. Dhananjeya Kumaar! Wishing you immense success in applying your natural talents and the skills honed during your studies. Thank you for being a pioneer in everything! What a journey was it!
Warm welcome to Lara Perren
We welcome Lara to the CMD family! Lara reinforces the direction of intermetallic nanocrystals, working with low-melting bimetallic compositions and their phase-change properties.
Simon made it to Nature Communications
We are extremely happy to have published our intuitive model for amorphous tellurides materials! It explains structural dynamics, crystallization mechanism, ideal glass, and nanoscale effects in phase-change memory tellurides
Why traditional building materials are on the rise
Construction still relies on concrete and steel – at a high cost to the climate. But interest is shifting back to natural and reusable materials.
Rehabilitation technology – as delicate as the human hand
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an innovative hand exoskeleton that helps persons after stroke re-learn how to grasp. Its accordion-like structure makes it light, robust and easy to integrate into everyday life.
“Treatment with bacteriophages can combat antibiotic-resistant infections, but Swiss patients lack access”
It is not only antibiotics but also certain viruses – known as bacteriophages – that can kill off pathogenic bacteria. However, Switzerland lacks the legal framework for the use of these viruses in therapy. What would need to change so that more patients can benefit from this form of treatment? Researcher Alexander Harms explains.
Minute witnesses from the primordial sea
Researchers at ETH Zurich have been able to measure - for the first time - how the amount of dissolved organic carbon in the sea has changed over geological time. The results reveal that our explanations of how the ice ages and complex life forms came about are incomplete.
Kerstin Vokinger, how can we keep health insurance premiums under control?
Surveys indicate that consistently rising health insurance premiums are one of the Swiss population’s top five concerns. Kerstin Vokinger, Professor of Law and Medicine, presents a few potential solutions.