SCS Award for PhD thesis: Fingerprint analysis for laughing gas
Dübendorf, St. Gallen und Thun, 9.2.2021 - The former Empa scientist Kristýna Kantnerová receives the METAS Award 2021 in analytical chemistry, awarded by the Swiss Chemical Society, for her PhD thesis. In her research, she took a closer look at the well-known greenhouse gas nitrous oxide and developed a method for identifying and quantifying very rare, doubly substituted nitrous oxide isotopocules (isotopically substituted molecules) – an important step towards a better understanding of their formation and how to curb nitrous oxide emissions in the long term.