New chair
Institute expands its scope
29.11.2023
The Adolphe Merkle Institute is seeking to create a fifth major group in Food Science and Technology with the support of the University of Fribourg and canton Fribourg. The search for a new professor has…
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Fresh ideas
Spark grants for AMI researchers
06.11.2023
Four Adolphe Merkle Institute researchers have been awarded Spark grants by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The grantees will investigate the detection of Huntington's disease, structural color…
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Physics
New grant to create perfectly white materials
13.10.2023
Researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute, the University of Fribourg, and New York University are investigating materials that could diffusely reflect all rays of incoming light, with long-term potential…
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Aerosol research
International honor for AMI professor
31.08.2023
The Adolphe Merkle Institute's Co-Chair of BioNanomaterials, Prof. Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser has been named a Fellow of the International Society for Aerosols in Medicine (ISAM).
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In isolation
Single-protein study paves way to improving understanding of disease
02.05.2023
Scientists at Nottingham Trent University and the Adolphe Merkle Institute have developed new technology which has made it possible to isolate and study how a single protein - 10,000 times thinner than…
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Women's health
A better model to understand ovarian cancer
16.03.2023
Researchers from the Adolphe Merkle Institute's BioNanomaterials group and other institutions have developed a multicellular 3D human omentum model to study the formation of ovarian and peritoneal cancer.…
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Flexible
A robotic worm for tight spaces
13.03.2023
Researchers at the Adolphe Merkle Institute and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, USA) have developed a soft, worm-like robot that can wriggle itself through spaces that are considerably smaller…
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Cleaning up
Researchers call for better nanowaste management
07.03.2023
Waste containing nanomaterials - or nanowaste - is an emerging safety concern worldwide, requiring environmentally sound management and regulation that still need to be established. Researchers at the…
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Saving the past
Innosuisse grant for paper preservation
19.12.2022
One of the newest projects of AMI Polymers Chair Prof. Christoph Weder aims to preserve historical documents damaged by ink corrosion. He is funded by an Innosuisse grant.
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