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1 May 2020
CuPCP gives off an intense green glow not only when current is applied, but also under UV light.

In search of the lighting material of the future

Media Releases SwissFEL Future Technologies Large Research Facilities Research Using Synchrotron Light

At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have gained insights into a promising material for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). This new understanding at the atomic level will help to develop new lighting materials that have higher light output and also are cost-efficient to manufacture.

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1 April 2020
Christian Rüegg

Professor Dr. Christian Rüegg new Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute

Media Releases

The new director of the Paul Scherrer Institute has taken up office today. Christian Rüegg aims to further reinforce the leading role of PSI's large research facilities, and thus promote Switzerland as a location for research.

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13 March 2020
Teaser: Erstmals chemische Reaktionen direkt im Feinstaub nachgewiesen

First-time direct proof of chemical reactions in particulates

Media Releases Environment Energy and Climate

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a new method to analyse particulate matter more precisely than ever before. With its help, they disproved an established doctrine: that molecules in aerosols undergo no further chemical transformations because they are enclosed in other particulate matter.

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28 February 2020
Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg und Georg Bison

Tracking down the mystery of matter

Media Releases Research Using Neutrons Particle physics Fundamentals of Nature

At the ultracold neutron source at PSI, researchers have measured a property of the neutron more precisely than ever before: its electric dipole moment. That's because the search is still on for an explanation of why, after the Big Bang, there was more matter than antimatter.

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24 February 2020
Teaser Donnelly Guizarsicairos

Short film of a magnetic nano-vortex

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

Using a newly developed imaging method, researchers were able to visualise the magnetic structure inside a material with nanoscale resolution. They succeeded in creating a short "film" consisting of seven movie frames that shows, for the first time in 3D, how tiny vortices of the magnetisation deep within a material change over time.

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27 November 2019
Teaser MM Christian Rüegg

Christian Rüegg appointed new Director of the Paul Scherrer Institute

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On 27 November 2019, at the recommendation of the ETH Board, the Federal Council has appointed Christian Rüegg as the new director of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI. The 43-year-old will take over from Thierry Strässle, who has headed the institute on an interim basis since the beginning of the year. Mr Rüegg is currently head of the Neutrons and Muons Division at the PSI. He will take up his new position on 1 April 2020.

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12 November 2019
Teaser Roentgenkleinwinkelstreuung

A fast and precise look into fibre-reinforced composites

Media Releases Future Technologies Research Using Synchrotron Light

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a new process with which fibre-reinforced composite materials can be precisely X-rayed. This could help to develop better materials with novel properties.

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6 November 2019
Teaser Mikroroboter

On the way to intelligent microrobots

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research

It is reminiscent of a paper bird made with the help of the Japanese folding art origami: a microrobot that uses the force of magnetic fields to move. In the future, such small machines could be used, for example, in medical operations.

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14 October 2019
Teaser Interview Petr Novák

From the Walkman to the electric car

Media Releases Energy and Climate Materials Research

Three researchers share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are being honoured for their respective contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries. Petr Novák of PSI likewise works in this area of research and has known the three laureates personally for decades. In an interview, he tells about sitting directly across from one of them at the crucial moment.

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22 August 2019
Teaser Chemokin-Rezeptor

Preventing tumour metastasis

Media Releases Biology Health Innovation Medical Science Research Using Synchrotron Light

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, together with colleagues from the pharmaceutical company F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, have taken an important step towards the development of an active substance against the metastasis of certain cancers. Using the Swiss Light Source SLS, they deciphered the structure of a receptor that plays a crucial role in the migration of cancer cells.

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22 August 2019
Teaser Grünzweig und Valsecchi

Visualising strong magnetic fields with neutrons

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research Research Using Neutrons

For the first time, PSI researchers have used neutrons to visualise very strong magnetic fields that are up to one million times stronger than Earth's magnetic field. This now makes it possible to study magnets that are already installed in devices such as magnetic resonance tomography systems or alternators.

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12 July 2019
Weyl fermions

Weyl fermions discovered in another class of materials

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

A particular variety of particles, the so-called Weyl fermions, had previously only been detected in certain non-magnetic materials. But now researchers at PSI have experimentally proved their existence for the first time in a specific paramagnetic material.

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4 July 2019
Teaser Molekulare Energiemaschine als Filmstar

Molecular energy machine as a movie star

Media Releases Biology SwissFEL Large Research Facilities Research Using Synchrotron Light

Using the Swiss Light Source SLS, PSI researchers have recorded a molecular energy machine in action and thus revealed how energy production at cell membranes works. For this purpose, they developed a new investigative method that could make the analysis of cellular processes significantly more effective than before.

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3 July 2019
teaser power to x

The energy system of the future and Power-to-X

Media Releases Energy and Climate Renewable Energies ESI Platform Energy transition

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI analyse the potential of Power-to-X for Switzerland's energy supply and present their conclusions in a white paper. One finding: The costs for energy from Power-to-X could fall by up to one-third.

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24 June 2019
Teaser Choi Steinmetz

Molecular scissors stabilise the cell's cytoskeleton

Media Releases Biology Health Innovation Medical Science

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have an important part of the regulatory cycle that is involved in the formation and degradation of the cytoskeleton. Among other things, they have watched molecular scissors at work.

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21 June 2019
teaser ariane

PSI imaging helps with rocket launches

Media Releases Future Technologies Industrial co-operation Research Using Neutrons

PSI researchers are helping the European space program: Their neutron imaging serves to ensure the quality of critical components for rocket launches.

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4 June 2019
Teaser magnetic shape memory

New material with magnetic shape memory

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

PSI researchers have developed a material whose shape memory is activated through magnetism. Application areas for this new kind of composite material include, for example, medicine, space flight, electronics, and robotics.

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7 May 2019
Teaserbild Schröter Niels

New material also reveals new quasiparticles

Media Releases Research Using Synchrotron Light Materials Research Future Technologies

Researchers at PSI have investigated a novel crystalline material at the Swiss Light Source SLS that exhibits electronic properties never seen before. Among other things, they were able to detect a new type of quasiparticle: so-called Rarita-Schwinger fermions.

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26 April 2019
teaser adenylate cyclase

Bringing information into the cell

Media Releases Biology Health Innovation Medical Science

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have elucidated an important part of a siganalling pathway that transmits information through the cell membrane into the interior of a cell. This exists in all mammals and plays an important role, among other things, in the regulation of the heartbeat. The new findings could lead to new therapies.

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29 March 2019
Zhaochu Luo, lead author of the study, in front of a so-called sputter deposition tool. In the apparatus the layers of platinum, cobalt and aluminium oxide are produced. Each layer is only a few nanometers thick. (Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Mahir Dzambegovic)

A compass pointing West

Media Releases Future Technologies Materials Research Research Using Synchrotron Light

Researchers at PSI have discovered a new phenomenon of magnetism with the help of the Swiss Light Source SLS. Certain groups of atoms behave like a compass pointing West. This could make computers much more powerful.

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