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Millions in funding for research at PSI

Concrete, chemical catalysis and the search for new physics – three PSI researchers have each received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation for these areas of research.

A new dimension of complexity for layered magnetic materials

17.02.2025

•Future Technologies

•8 min

A new dimension of complexity for layered magnetic materials

X-rays reveal magnetic phenomena driven by interactions between the layers of a kagome ferromagnet

06.02.2025

•Future Technologies

•7 min

Unique quantum simulator opens door to new research

PSI physicists have teamed up with Google to build a new type of digital-analogue quantum simulator.

Many functional materials are composed of coherent domains or grains, where molecules and atoms are arranged in a repeating pattern that determines performance. X-ray Linear Dichroic Orientation Tomography (XL-DOT) allows 3D mapping of material microstructure at the nanoscale. Here, the technique is applied to a pillar of vanadium pentoxide catalyst, used in the production of sulfuric acid. The colours in the tomogram represent the different orientation of grains. © Paul Scherrer Institute PSI/Andreas Apseros

11.12.2024

•Future Technologies

•9 min

Mapping the Nanoscale Architecture of Functional Materials

A new X-ray technique reveals the 3D orientation of ordered material structures at the nanoscale, allowing new insights into material functionality.

The intense beams of X-ray light at the user facilities operated by the PSI Center for Photon Science shed light on the smallest structures of matter.

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11.10.2024

•Fundamentals of Nature

•6 min

Unlocking the secrets of proteins

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This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to three researchers who have made a decisive contribution to cracking the code of proteins – important building blocks of life. However, developing applications from this knowledge, for example in medicine, requires research institutes such as PSI.