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The world’s cleanest water droplet

24. August 2018

[Translate to English:] In der Vakuumkammer wird ein hochreiner Eiszapfen hergestellt und dann geschmolzen.

What effect does water have on ultra-clean surfaces? Using a novel method, researchers at TU Wien and Cornell University have succeeded in…

Browser plug-in for improved internet safety

21. August 2018

Authentication on certain websites via Facebook or Google accounts can be risky, but use of a browser extension from TU Wien eliminates the problem.

Artificial placenta created in the laboratory

13. August 2018

[Translate to English:] Denise Mandt im Labor

In order to better understand important biological membranes, it is necessary to explore new methods. Researchers at TU Wien (Vienna) have succeeded…

Career Spotlight: Mag. Dipl.-Ing. Kathrin Apfelthaler, MBA

12. August 2018

[Translate to English:] Mag. Dipl.-Ing. Kathrin Apfelthaler, MBA

Interview with General Management MBA alumna

Amazingly ‘green’ synthesis method for high-tech dyes

08. August 2018

[Translate to English:] Der Farbstoff Indigo ist bei Raumtemperatur vollständig wasserabweisend. Ein aufgebrachter Tropfen Wasser perlt einfach ab.

Dyes that are also of great interest for organic electronics have recently been prepared and crystallised at TU Wien. All that is required is just…

Innovation up close - MBA study trip to Silicon Valley

07. August 2018

Ali Reza Haidari, participant of the General Management MBA, Class 2016-2018, was in Silicon Valley and reports about his experience.

Publication in Nature Immunology

01. August 2018

Team members from the Vienna University of Technology, the Medical University of Vienna and the Max Planck Institute — © TU Wien I Biophyiscs

The story on the spatial distribution of the T cell receptor gets published in Nature Immunology

Faculty Spotlight: Univ.-Prof. DDr. Thomas Ratka, LL.M.

25. July 2018

Interview with Prof. Thomas Ratka, LL.M., Vice Rector for Educational Affairs / Academic Continuing Education and lecturer in the General Management…

No sign of Symmetrons

24. July 2018

[Translate to English:] Der Versuchsaufbau mit dem Neutronenspiegel

A high-precision experiment led by TU Wien has set its sights on pinpointing the so-far hypothetical "symmetron fields" using the PF2 ultra-cold…

IEEE EMBC '18

23. July 2018

Michael Harasek and Margit Gföhler in front of an EMBC Poster

Biofluidslab at the 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, July 17-21, 2018

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