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Prof. Ludovic Gremaud and the team of the department of Chemistry from the the Shiv Nadar University in India discovered a sustainable C–H functionalization of indoles, pyrroles and furan and recenlty published their breakthrough

High performance integration of electronic components in an overmoulding

Successful collaboration between iRAP and the Adolphe Merkle Institute for the development of an industrializable purification cassette to detect malaria more easily.

ChemTech has optimised an existing process developed at the milligram scale to several tens of grams.

Opting for ceramic injection molding brings you an opportunity to obtain complex designs.

For several years, the company Metalor has been collaborating with our institute and benefits from the know-how of our students

new course dates

iPrint is now a member of the "Food&Nutrition Cluster"!

Atena Solea has just achieved the defense of her PhD thesis in chemistry

The iPrint and iRAP Institutes are working with Swissmeca to improve the current tests in order to develop a new way of performing Gram stains.

Discover Thomas Jusselme's paper

This paper presents a systematic review of virtual coaches specifically aimed at improving or maintaining older adults’ health in different domains, such as physical, nutritional, cognitive, social, and emotional.

iCoSys is proud to present #SwissCrawl, the largest Swiss German text corpus to date!

TRANSFORM By Shen Yang; Vincent, Perret; Hélène Niculita-Hirzel; Corinne Hager Jörin; Joëlle Goyette Pernot; Dusan Licina In: Indoor Air 2020, 00, 1-11

A study covering all of French-speaking Switzerland found that energy-efficient renovation work on residential buildings tends to overlook the question of indoor air quality. The study’s authors, mainly from EPFL and the School of Engineering and Architecture of Fribourg (HEIA-FR), have called for greater attention to this issue.

Key outcomes of the Driftwood at spillways project presented to the public

Swisscom drives forward innovative 5G projects, which offer customers a wide range of applications with this generation of mobile communication. Together with the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Swisscom is undertaking research with 5G projects in relation to the virtualisation of network functions (NFV). For public security, Swisscom is testing various applications, and mobile private networks demonstrate the possibilities for business customers.

Prof. Roger Marti as member of the Institute ChemTech was participating at the Kick-off meeting of the COST Action of the European network on “Furan based chemicals and materials for a Sustainable development” in November in Brussel.

Didier Vuarnoz (Institut ENERGY) has presented a paper at the 3rd International Symposium on Green Energy and Smart Grids - SGESG 2019 in Chongqing, China. This paper written in collaboration with Prof. Elena-Lavinia Niederhäuser, Dimitri Torregrossa and Prof. Dominique Gabioud (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) discusses the integration of power flexibility (PF) in new and existing cooling systems to avoid a possible cold crunch in the near future.

As of mid September 2019, we are proud to host at iCoSys several new student projects that will be realised in our labs