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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.

By Birgit Baustädter Doctoral candidate Manuel Maier from TU Graz's Institute of Process and Particle Technology received the Anton Paar Research Award for a measuring instrument that controls reactions of highly reactive substances.

By Martin Walpot (acib) The Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology (acib) and Graz University of Technology decoded the mechanism of Adipose-Biosynthesis - the basis for the production of sugar molecules for new fine chemicals or biopharmaceuticals.

By Christoph Pelzl Katrin Unger, PhD candidate at TU Graz, develops tattoo sensors that measure the acid content of the skin.

By Pelzl Two new CD labs of TU Graz are working on producing proteins and high-quality plastics efficiently and cost-effectively.

Online simulation game makes graphene research available to the public The team of Toma Susi at the University of Vienna uses a state-of-the-art electron microscope, the UltraSTEM, to manipulate strongly bound materials with atomic precision.

Von Katharina Kocher, Kurt Mayer, Bernhard Marius, Bernd Cermenek, Viktor Hacker, Sigrid Wolf Finding the optimal combination of high performance and durability is a key factor in the realisation of future sustainable energy production systems.

By Victoria Graf NAWI Graz graduate Gustav Oberdorfer produces artificial proteins and has received an ERC Starting Grant for his work.

By Birgit Baustädter Max Burian uses bright light to look deep into the core of matter. He works in a silver laboratory container next to the Elettra synchrotron particle accelerator in Trieste, Italy.

By Raffaele Ricco Metal-Organic Frameworks, also known as MOFs, are attractive porous materials with huge implications for both basic and applied research.

By Thomas Wallek Surrogates are substitute mixtures comprising a few chemical compounds that emulate the physicochemical properties of real mixtures which may consist of several hundreds or thousands of compounds.

By Hermann Scharfetter The FETopen CONQUER project launched at TU Graz three years ago was successfully completed by August 31st 2018.

By Birgit Baustädter Günter Brenn investigates the behaviour of gas bubbles and liquid drops. His work is especially important in process engineering.

By Doris Griesser Although microporous crystals are tiny, their potential is enormous. To exploit this, TU Graz has initiated the interdisciplinary lead project Porous Materials@Work.

By Birgit Baustädter Oliver Hofmann, solid-state physicist at TU Graz, is working on the simulation and prediction of material properties.

Biotechnological production of chemicals using enzymes coupled with the photosynthesis of microalgae is the topic of the new EU project PhotoBioCat.

When a crystal is broken along certain directions the atoms reorganize in amazing ways. Researchers in Vienna have watched this happen, and have learned to control it.

By Robert Kourist Enzymes catalyse challenging chemical reactions under very mild reaction conditions.

Physicists have developed a reliable strategy to separate chemically identical macromolecules that differ only in their shape What is the difference between linear chains and rings composed of the same material?

The dimension of hydrogen utilisation in future fuel-cell applications largely depends on the widespread availability of hydrogen produced from renewable resources.

Finnish physicist Toma Susi has received the prized ERC Starting Grant of the European Research Council that funds pioneering basic research.

By Roman Bureau Understanding and modelling the mechanisms involved in shaping metallic alloys has become a major concern of manufacturers.