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Comet researchers

From October 24-26, 2011, a group of 15 comet researchers from Germany, France, Finland and Austria met at the Institute of Chemical Engineering, TU…

So far, it only exists as a montage: This is what a liquid with a negative refractive index could look like (right), as opposed to regular water (left).

Scientists have tried this with sophisticated meta-materials, but at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) it has now been done with simple…

The Quantum Chip: In the center, there is the microwave resonator and the dark diamond.

Two completely different quantum systems were successfully joined at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna). This should pave the way to feasible…

Colloids - unordered, in a crystalline structure and as strings under mechanical strain

A liquid does not have to be a disordered bunch of particles: A team of researchers at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) and the University…

Graphene: light makes the electrons flow

The novel material graphene makes faster electronics possible. Scientists at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the…