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Bernhard Bayer
© Bernhard Fickl

Disorder can have its advantages: Bernhard C. Bayer will produce "high-entropy materials” as thin 2D layers. For this project, he is now receiving an…

four people in the lab

A well-known mineral is once again the center of attention thanks to applications in electronics: the Vienna University of Technology shows that mica…

the three authors of the paper, outdoors

What determines the durability of high-performance coatings for turbines or highly stressed tools? Surprising results from TU Wien show: It is not…

Tiny hairs on the outer wall of some cells can move in different directions, thereby influencing each other

Tiny hairs on cell walls, so-called “cilia”, can move in unison to pump fluid. Now there finally is a physical theory describing these hairs'…

Symbolic representation of two particles with connections in between
© Raphael Bühler

Because they are extremely stable, so-called "topological states" play an important role in materials research. Now, for the first time, it has been…

a plate with three different microscopes

Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) and FHI Berlin succeeded in monitoring a catalytic reaction with three different microscopies under exactly the same…