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Tumour irradiation, individualised daily

Proton therapy

A PSI feasibility study shows: Even in everyday clinical practice, treatment can be adapted daily. Thus, the tumour will always be treated with exactly the right dose of radiation.

16.08.2024

Where should hydrogen be produced in the future?

Researchers at PSI have been looking into where the hydrogen for a future hydrogen economy should be produced and what impact this energy carrier will have on the environment.

13.08.2024

•Future Technologies

•6 min

Researchers show that computer chips have the potential to become even smaller

Nanotechnology

Researchers at PSI reach unprecedented 5 nanometres half pitch resolution with EUV lithography.

08.08.2024

•5 min

Sources of smog in Beijing identified

Atmosphere

Environment

Researchers at PSI are investigating the wide range of causes underlying smog in Beijing.

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04.10.2024

Master of the flow

People

Even as a student, Athanasios Mokos was excited by the dynamics of fluids. Today at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, he models complex processes such as the formation of deposits on reactor fuel rods.

01.10.2024

•Future Technologies

•11 min

Magnetism in thin layers: One electron makes the difference

Materials research

SμS

An important step towards novel computer memory

23.09.2024

Artificial intelligence explores the underground

Nuclear energy

The properties of geological units are determined using images of drill cores.

Visualisierung eines möglichen zukünftigen Hyperloop-Systems. © EuroTube

20.09.2024

Fast as a plane, clean as a train

Mobility

Energy transition

Industry Relations

In a collaboration across Switzerland, researchers have evaluated the potential environmental impacts of so-called hyperloop systems.

Science Features

Orbitronics: new material property advances energy-efficient tech

27.09.2024

•Future Technologies

Orbitronics: new material property advances energy-efficient tech

Materials research

Quantum research

•Large research facilities

Discovery of orbital angular momentum monopoles boosts the emerging field of orbitronics, an energy-efficient alternative to electronics.

16.09.2024

Excited About SLS 2.0!

SLS 2.0

•Large research facilities

Researchers tell us why they are excited about SLS 2.0 and more brilliant light for science

In the accelerator hall of SwissFEL: (L to R) Carlo Vicario, Eduard Prat Costa, Anne L’Huillier, Christoph Bostedt and Adrian Cavalieri.

12.09.2024

•2 min

Nobel Prize winner Anne L’Huillier visits SwissFEL

SwissFEL

X-ray free-electron lasers could unlock the next frontier in attosecond research

Within the cell, some proteins can condense into droplets: a concept known as liquid-liquid phase separation. While this enables important cellular functions, there has been speculation that it can also be a precursor to pathological protein aggregation. (Image: Adobe Stock)

15.07.2024

•Health Innovation

•Large research facilities

Protein droplets likely don’t cause Parkinson’s

Medical Science

Study deepens our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases linked to protein aggregation.

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Scientific Highlights

From scientists for scientists

07.10.2024

•Fundamentals of Nature

Discovery of charge order above roomtemperature in the prototypical kagome superconductor La(Ru_1−xFe_x)₃Si₂

The kagome lattice is an intriguing and rich platform for discovering, tuning and understanding the diverse phases of quantum matter, crucial for advancing modern and future electronics. Despite considerable efforts, accessing correlated phases at room temperature has been challenging.

02.10.2024

Recognition at MNE 2024 Micrograph Contest

Nanotechnology

People

The MNE conference is the flagship event of the International Society for Micro- and Nanotechnology (iMNEs). The research fields covered by the MNE conferences have consistently driven advancements in the development of smaller and smaller structures. To emphasize the significance of micrographs in this field, the conference features a micrograph contest, sponsored and hosted by Zyvex Labs. Entries are judged based on both their technological relevance and artistic merit.

This year, Peng Qi from the X-ray Nano Optics group, LXN, CPS, earned third place and an honorable mention for his two submitted images.

30.08.2024

Uncovering the secrets of rapid and green metal-organic framework synthesis

Using ATR-IR spectroscopy and high-energy XRD, we have studied the mechanism of ambient temperature aqueous synthesis of Zn-MOF-74. Starting from the need to change Zn precursor to disentangle signals in ATR-IR spectroscopy, we also developed a rapid synthesis of Zn-MOF-74 with Zn perchlorate.

29.08.2024