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New materials made from wood particles

Infographics: Wood research in various scientific disciplines

TU Wien and HS Timber Group have entered into a research partnership with the aim of using wood particles to develop new sustainable materials that…

Stable Catalysts for New Energy

Carina Brunnhofer (left), Dominik Dworschak (right)

Crucial new technologies such as hydrogen production or carbon capture require new catalysts. Experiments show: It's not just the material that…

New Materials: A Toggle Switch for Catalysis

A Perovskite thin film electrode, on a ZrO2 crystal.
© TU Wien

Electrochemical reactions, which will play an important role in the future of energy supply, can now be explained in detail, thanks to measurements…

Climate Change Affects Floods in Europe

Flooding in Obrenovac (Serbia), 2014

A large international research project led by TU Wien (Vienna) has demonstrated for the first time that climate change has an impact on the magnitude…