Materials and Matter - News

New quasi-particle discovered: the Pi-ton

The team

Actually they had been looking for something completely different, but they found a previously unknown quasi-particle: A bound state of two electrons,…

A New Look at "Strange Metals"

Photo: Luisa Puiu / TU Wien, free to download and use
© Luiza Puiu / TU Wien

For years, a new synthesis method has been developed at TU Wien (Vienna) to unlock the secrets of "strange metals". Now a breakthrough has been…

Bioprinting: Living cells in a 3D printer

Cells spreading in a 3D scaffold - from left to right: week 1, week 3 week 5. Top: 3D setup, bottom: one layer only.

With a new process developed at TU Wien (Vienna), living cells can be integrated into fine structures created in a 3D printer - extremely fast and…

Single atoms as catalysts

Gareth Parkinson (left) and Jakub Zdenek

Incorporating individual metal atoms into a surface in the right way allows their chemical behavior to be adapted. This makes new, better catalysts…

Slow electrons to combat cancer

Janine Schwestka

Ion therapy harnesses complex atomic effects to destroy cancer cells. Now, researchers at TU Wien have discovered a mechanism which makes this process…