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New invention: The oxygen-ion battery

Drei Personen im Labor

A new type of battery has been invented at TU Wien (Vienna): The oxygen-ion battery can be extremely durable, does not require rare elements and…

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…

ERC grant for Bernhard Bayer

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…

The Last Mysteries of Mica

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…

Ceramic coatings do not fatigue

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…