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A solid‐state lithium‐ion battery, in which all components (current collector, anode and cathode, electrolyte, and packaging) are stretchable, is being developed by researcher of the Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials group, giving rise to a battery design with mechanical properties that are compliant with flexible electronic devices and elastic wearable systems.

In a recent Advanced Materials publication, researchers at the Laboratory of Metal Physics and Technology (LMPT) present TEM experiments designed to follow the active nano-corrosion processes of biodegradable Mg alloys over periods ranging from seconds to days. They find that cathodically polarized dealloying of intermetallic nanoprecipitates governs their electrochemical reactivity. This presents a fundamentally new concept for active materials such as Mg alloys.

Nicola Spaldin, head of Materials Theory group, has been awarded the Swiss Science Prize Marcel Benoist for her outstanding research into multiferroic materials. Her work has laid the foundations for new ultrafast and energy-efficient data storage technologies.