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“The smart living lab is at a pivotal moment in its development"

Published:14.02.19 — EPFL’s smart living lab, located on the Fribourg campus, is at a pivotal moment in its development. Martin Gonzenbach, the lab’s new director of operations, tells us why.

Next-generation optics in just two minutes of cooking time

Published:12.02.19 — One of the key building blocks of flexible photonic circuits and ultra-thin optics are metasurfaces. And EPFL engineers have now discovered a simple way of making these surfaces in just a few minutes – without needing a clean room – using a method already employed in manufacturing. Their findings have just been published in Nature Nanotechnology.

New device simplifies measurement of fluoride contamination in water

Published:12.02.19 — Seeking to address fluoride contamination in drinking water, chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a portable and user-friendly device that can measure fluoride concentration accurately and reliably.

“The Arctic atmosphere is key to understanding climate change”

Published:11.02.19 — This summer, 40 international scientists will participate in the GLACE expedition around Greenland in order to study the effects of climate change in that region. One of the 15 projects selected for the expedition will be led by Athanasios Nenes, an atmospheric specialist at EPFL.