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Using energyand resource-saving methods, a research team at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry at TU Graz aims to produce high-quality doped silicon layers for the electronics and solar industries.

TU Wien (Vienna) has succeeded in generating laser-synchronised ion pulses with a duration of well under 500 picoseconds, which can be used to observe chemical processes on material surfaces.

Methanol, ammonia, and hydrogen are waiting in the wings to replace problematic heavy fuel oil in ship propulsion systems.

Enthusiasm for laboratory work, forensics as in CSI television series or a love of science - these are all good prerequisites for studying chemistry.

After 13 formative years at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, Professor Rafal Klajn joined the faculty of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).

By Birgit Baustädter After playing Activity as a youngster, Fabio Blaschke soon realised that his future lay not in drawing, but in technology.

By Birgit Baustädter At the TU Graz Science for Future Science Day, fuel cell researcher Merit Bodner will give one of the two keynote lectures.

By Chetna Madan Indian PhD candidate Chetna Madan gives an insight into her stay as a visiting researcher at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology at TU Graz.

By Birgit Baustädter TU Graz and the Japanese analytical instrument manufacturer JEOL opened the newly designed JEOL Application Lab with completely new nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectrometers in January 2023.

By Birgit Baustädter Fuel cells are of great importance when it comes to renewable energy systems. But - like everything else - they age.

By Susanne Filzwieser The nw PhD programme for the development of innovative hydrogen technologies with a focus on reversible high-temperature electrolysis will start in February 2023.

Hydrogen and fuel cell technologies as viable and sustainable approaches to a renewable energy supply chain are experiencing unprecedented attention.

By Birgit Baustädter Birgit Wassermann is conducting research on microbiomes, Sebastian Bock on hydrogen and Matthias Wolf on exoskeletons.

By Susanne Filzwieser Hydrogen from real biogas: TU Graz and the start-up Rouge H2 Engineering have scored a world's first in producing high-purity hydrogen from biogas directly at a biogas plant using a new chemical looping process.

By Birgit Baustädter At the Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Biobased Systems, a new bioprinter recently entered service.

By Mark Kozamernik Erasmus+ traineeship student Mark Kozamernik shares his experience about life in Graz and work at the Institute of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology (CEET) at TU Graz during the Covid pandemic.

By Beate Mosing What can you make from wood? Not only pieces of furniture apparently. Today, cellulose fibres are being turned into new, useful materials and used for fashion as well as for artificial tissue cultivation.

Which catalyst can be used to convert carbon dioxide into other substances? Scientists at TU Wien have now created a new material, which belongs to the class of perovskites.

By Birgit Baustädter Niklas Pontesegger visits apple trees for scientific reasons to investigate how climate change is affecting the fruit.

Due to current efforts being made in the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the associated political focus on hydrogen as a clean energy carrier, methods for sustainable hydrogen production and efficient utilization are again in great demand.

.. of Ultra-High-Strength Steel Screws in Service: Still a Development Potential? Hydrogen embrittlement is a major concern for the automotive, construction, and energy sectors.

A completely new method of producing extremely short and high-energy laser pulses was developed at TU Wien.

What happens when you pull a DNA molecule? It behaves quite differently than we are used to from macroscopic objects.

By Christoph Pelzl The researcher receives the science prize worth up to 1.2 million euros for her work on a new measurement technology that enables UV-light-induced chemical processes to be investigated with unprecedented detail.

A modern energy system based on renewable energy like wind and solar power inevitably needs a storage system to provide energy on demand.

By Birgit Baustädter Karin Stana Kleinschek has dedicated her professional life to the question of how materials can be produced from renewable resources and made degradable or recyclable.

By Christoph Pelzl Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology, together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering, have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralised production of high-purity hydrogen.