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Best PhD Thesis Award

Congratulations to Dr. George Sotiriou for winning the 2012 Best PhD Thesis Award from the Division of Polymers and Colloids of the Swiss Chemical Society.

Winner AIChE Poster Session

Congratulations to Robert Büchel for being selected as a winner at the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Poster Session of the 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis USA for his poster “Two-Nozzle Flame Synthesis of NOx Storage Reduction Catalysts”

1st Place AIChE BioNanotechnology Graduate Student Award

Congratulations to George Sotiriou for winning the 1st place, BioNanotechnology Graduate Student Award for his paper at the 2011 Annual Meeting of AIChE in Minneapolis, USA

AIChE Best Poster Award

Congratulations again to Max Eggersdorfer for winning the best poster award of the Particle Technology Forum at the 2011 Annual Meeting of AIChE in Minneapolis, USA

EAC Best Poster Award

Congratulations to Max Eggersdorfer for winning the best poster award for
aerosol fundamentals at the 2011 European Aerosol Conference in Manchester, UK.

Journal Cover

Flame Aerosol Synthesis of Metal Oxide Catalysts with Unprecedented Structural and Catalytic Properties

Nanothin SiO2-coated nanosilver

Silver nanoparticles (nanosilver) have superior optical (e.g. plasmonic) properties that make them attractive for biomedical applications. One hurdle up to now has been their toxicity. Researchers from ETH Zurich, however, have now found a solution by flame aerosol synthesis and subsequent in-situ coating nanosilver with nanothin silica films. Link to Press article in ETH Life

Cover page

Aerosol-based Technologies in Nanoscale Manufacturing: from Functional Materials to Devices through Core Chemical Engineering

Frontispiece

Non-Toxic Dry-Coated Nanosilver for Plasmonic Biosensors

MRS Graduate Student Award

Congratulations to Marco Righettoni for winning a Graduate Student Silver Award for his presentation "Chemo-resistive Gas Sensors for Easy Diagnosis of Diabetes by Breath Analysis" at the 2010 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston, USA.

AIChE Poster Award

Congratulations to Björn Schimmöller for been selected for a Chemical Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division poster award for his presentation "Structure of Flame-Made Vanadia / Silica and Catalytic Behavior in the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane" at the 2010 Annual Meeting of AIChE in Salt Lake City, USA. He will be recognized at the 2011 CRE Division banquet.

AIChE Best Paper

Congratulations to Robert Büchel for receiving the Best Paper Award for Nano- particles from the Particle Technology Forum for his oral presentation on "Two - Nozzle Flame Synthesis of NOx Storage Reduction Catalysts" during the 2009 Annual Meeting of AIChE in Nashville, TN and was recognized with a plaque at the 2010 Dinner of PTF on Nov. 10 at Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Press Release

by the American Chemical Society

Flame-made, directly deposited and in situ annealed, silica-doped, epsilon-tungsten oxide breath sensor can instantly and selectively detect acetone, a marker of diabetes in the human breath since Hippocrates' time in ancient Greece. Analytical Chemistry Article

Public Press

Seminar "New Chemical Products" by Prof. Edward Cussler from the University of Minnesota, USA

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AIChE Poster Award

Congratulations to Michael John and Max Eggersdorfer for winning the second best poster award in particle technology at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering in Nashville, TN, USA, a 3'000+ registered-participant congress.

Best Poster Award

Congratulations to Oliver Waser and Robert Büchel for winning the best poster award for aerosol-based nanotechnology at the 2009 European Aerosol Conference in Karlsruhe, a 760-registered participant congress.

Top PhD prize by DSM

Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Teleki for winning the first prize in the DSM Science &Technology Awards (South) 2009 for her PhD research on the production and application of coated nanoparticles.