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Two Conductors of a Chemical Reaction

Water molecules

For the first time, researchers at TU Wien have successfully observed the operating principle of so-called promoters in a catalytic reaction in…

Three ERC Grants for TU Wien

three portraits

Huge success for TU Wien in this year's ERC Starting Grants: Julian Leonard, Katta Spiel and Xiao-Hua Qin receive highly endowed grants.

Better superconductors with palladium

a piece of palladium and the material structure
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A Goldilocks material that might be just right: the precious metal palladium could be used to make superconductors that remain superconducting even at…

"Unsolvable" is no excuse

Tobias Schäfer

With an ESPRIT grant from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Tobias Schäfer is developing new computational methods to solve previously unsolvable quantum…

Chaos on the Nanometer Scale

Montage aus einem Gruppenfoto und zwei zusätzlich angefügten Einzelportraits.

Sometimes, chemical reactions do not solely run stationary in one direction, but they show spatio-temporal oscillations. At TU Wien, a transition to…

Eine perfekte Falle für Licht

graphical scheme of the experimental setup

An der TU Wien und der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem wurde eine „Lichtfalle“ entwickelt, in der ein Lichtstrahl sich selbst am Entkommen hindert.…