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Two D-CHAB teams among the Spark Award finalists for 2024
The Spark Award is awarded to the team with the best ETH invention. This year, two teams from D-CHAB are among the five finalists: Victor Mougel and Marie Amélie Perrin (D-CHAB) with their method to separate rare earth elements using thiometallates and Andrew deMello, André Studart et. al. (D-CHAB, D-MATL) with their solution for boosting bacterial cellulose production. Check out the videos of the finalists! The Spark Award 2024 will be awarded on 21 Nov.
Dandelion Award for Roger Schibli
The Dandelion Award, initiated in 2021 by ETH AI Center and ETH Entrepreneur Club, recognizes professors for their outstanding efforts to promote entrepreneurship at ETH Zurich and beyond. This year, Prof. Roger Schibli (IPW) has been honored with the award.
Colorful chemistry: discovering Jenny-Trümpy's fabric pattern books online
The chemical and pharmacognostic collection D-CHAB contains 17 fabric pattern books by the Swiss textile manufacturer and chemist Adolf Jenny-Trümpy. In addition to pages of colorful historical patterns (18th-20th century), many with a recipe for chemical textile dyeing, the volumes also offer an insight into the history of color chemistry and textile printing. Now freely accessible as an online catalog, the digitized volumes invite everyone to discover the colorful sides of chemistry.