If drugs are to enter the body painlessly and efficiently, they can be administered via skin patches.

Welding, printing, crushing concrete - an Empa team monitors noisy processes with the help of artificial intelligence.

For the replacement of animal testing with alternatives in medical rsearch, complex microtissues need to be cultivated.

Empa scientists are saving iron bridges from the 19th century from collapse. Carbon fiber plasters are strengthening the crumbling structures.

Reactive nano-multilayers are considered to be a revolution in joining technology. They are envisaged for joining heat-sensitive materials that would otherwise be damaged or even destroyed upon conventional soldering.

Researchers have achieved a breakthrough that could in future be used for precise nanotransistors or - in the distant future - possibly even quantum computers.