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.

Nachhaltiger Flugtreibstoff vom PSI-Campus

31.07.2024

•Energy and Climate

•5 min

Sustainable aviation fuel from the PSI campus

In collaboration with climate start-up Metafuels, a pilot plant for the production of sustainable aviation fuel is being set up on the PSI campus.

Xiaodan Li und Richard Kammerer haben erstmals ein Enzym charakterisiert, das ein wichtiges Werkzeug für die Kreislaufwirtschaft werden könnte. Auf dem Monitor sieht man schematisch abgebildet den entscheidenden Teil des aktiven Zentrums dieses Enzyms.

14.05.2024

•Fundamentals of Nature

•5 min

A bionanomachine for green chemistry

Biology

Chemistry

PSI researchers have characterised a unique enzyme from bacteria that enables an important chemical reaction.

Dario Ferreira Sanchez vor der microXAS-Strahllinie in der Synchrotron Lichtquelle Schweiz SLS. Hier konnten die Forschenden mittels Röntgendiffraktion die chemischen Prozesse in der Lithium-Luft-Batterie offenbaren.

14.03.2024

•Future Technologies

•8 min

Making powerful lithium-air batteries suitable for everyday use

Chemical processes in lithium-air batteries revealed using neutron beams and synchrotron light.

17.04.2023

•Energy and Climate

•9 min

Methane as an energy store

Researchers at PSI and the start-up AlphaSYNT are working together on a solution for efficiently storing energy.

30.11.2021

•Health Innovation

•7 min

New catalysts for pharmaceutical companies

Medical Science

Industry Relations

Chemistry

In partnership with Roche, PSI scientists are developing new, potentially more efficient catalysts for manufacturing active substances for drug therapies.

27.10.2021

•Energy and Climate

•9 min

Getting maximum energy out of biomass

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI start operation of a revolutionary pilot plant for production of synthetic biogas.

09.06.2021

•Future Technologies

•8 min

How catalysts age

Catalysts used in industry change their material structure over the years. Using a new method, PSI researchers have now studied this on the nanoscale.

25.02.2021

•Energy and Climate

•6 min

Green fuels for aviation

In a new initiative, PSI and Empa want to jointly develop a process for producing kerosene from renewable resources.

15.12.2020

•Future Technologies

•6 min

Look Inside a Chemical Reactor

Materials research

SLS

Chemistry

Operando X-ray spectrotomography allows scientists to look inside of functioning chemical reactors. A research team at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), at Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in France have employed this method successfully.