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Dye-sensitized solar cells rival conventional cell efficiency

Published:11.07.13 — Dye-sensitized solar cell efficiency has been raised to a record 15% thanks to a new fabrication process developed by EPFL scientists.

Frontiers Headlines Nature Magazine

Published:09.07.13 — Frontiers, an open-access publisher founded at EPFL’s Innovation Square, is featured on the cover of the prestigious magazine Nature.

Champion nano-rust for producing solar hydrogen

Published:09.07.13 — Water and some nano-structured iron oxide is all it takes to produce bubbles of solar hydrogen. EPFL and Technion scientists just discovered the champion structure to achieve this

A Decade of Collaboration for EPFL and Solar Impulse

Published:08.07.13 — In a leap towards flying around the world using solar power alone, Solar Impulse lands in New York – an important landmark for Solar Impulse and for Switzerland. EPFL has been a scientific partner to Solar Impulse since the plane’s inception, helping to validate the feasibility of the aircraft all the way to monitoring the mental states and heart rates of the pilots.

Traveling to the Venice of the Doges with your fingertips

Published:08.07.13 — SUMMER SERIES (2) - As part of their end of course project, two students from EPFL’s College of Humanities (CDH) have developed an interface enabling its users to see the ancient appearance of buildings while visiting Venice. Their work has earned them a "silver medal".

EPFL software is able to trace paths amidst a music jungle

Published:05.07.13 — The Genezik software, conceived by researchers from the Signal Processing Laboratory at EPFL (LTS2), offers an innovative approach to playlist making and to rediscovering forgotten songs. This is one of the inventions that EPFL will be presenting during the Montreux Jazz Festival.

Is That Bacteria Dead Yet?

Published:03.07.13 — Nano and laser technology packed into small device tests antibiotic treatment in minutes