The DECHEMA Research Institute (DFI) officially opened its new premises in Bad Homburg v. d. Höhe. Modern laboratory and office facilities have been built at Benzstraße 1–3, offering optimal conditions for cutting-edge research in the fields of hydrogen technologies, electrochemistry, high-performan...

Mechanoluminescent materials convert mechanical energy such as stress, strain, and vibration directly into light, making them attractive as self-powered sensors that require no batteries or wiring. From biomedical sensors to self-powered infrastructure monitoring sensors, mechanoluminescent material...

Lignin is one of the most abundant renewable aromatic resources on Earth. As a major component of plant biomass, it contains rich benzene-ring structures that could be transformed into high-value chemicals and fuel molecules. However, lignin is also highly complex and difficult to break down efficie...

A research team led by Professor Taesung Kim of the School of Mechanical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU, President Ji-beom Yoo) developed an optoelectronic synaptic device that mimics the functions of human neurons and synapses at the device scale. The researchers designed a designable...

To simulate the properties of materials, researchers use crystal structures of materials stored in databases. Often, however, these lack the positions of the hydrogen atoms. Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have now trained an artificial intelligence system to reconstruct these positio...

For more than a hundred years, chemists have been building complex molecules step by step – bond by bond, atom by atom. But what if, instead of painstakingly reassembling molecules, they could be directly "rewritten"? This is exactly what a research team led by organic chemist Nuno Maulide from the ...

From paints and inks to catalysts and drug-delivery materials, many advanced technologies rely on substances dispersed in organic solvents. Yet directly observing these materials in their native liquid environments has remained a major challenge, limiting scientists' ability to understand how micros...

A method to interpret artificial intelligence (AI) models used in materials discovery by analyzing their learned features has been developed by researchers from Japan. The method extracts key features from an AI model trained on atomic structural data and optical absorption spectra, and then groups ...

Green hydrogen is seen as a key technology for the decarbonization of industry. As yet, however, shortcomings in the areas of production efficiency, cost and scalability have prevented it from making a breakthrough. Mihails Kusnezoff, Stefan Megel and Sindy Mosch from the Fraunhofer Institute for Ce...

VEGA Grieshaber KG, a measurement technology manufacturer based in Schiltach, is continuing to expand its international presence. At the end of May, the company officially launched and celebrated the grand opening of a new facility in Jiaxing, China. Following the expansion of its electronics manufa...

Can pure water store electrical energy? A research team led by Dr. Vasily Artemov within the Cluster of Excellence “BlueMat – Water-Driven Materials” at Hamburg University of Technology has now shown that it can. By confining water within nanometer-sized channels in clay minerals, the researchers cr...

Oxidation reactions are indispensable to the chemical industry, but from a process safety perspective they are among the most challenging transformations. A research team at the University of Bayreuth, working in collaboration with international partners, has now introduced a fundamentally new appro...

A new study shows that deep learning can predict how fast biochar materials break down antibiotic contaminants, offering a faster path toward cleaner water and smarter environmental remediation. Antibiotic pollution is an increasing environmental and public health concern. These compounds can enter ...

The Empa spin-off Swiss Cluster has received the Swiss Economic Award 2026 in the "Industry/Production" category. The young company develops equipment for vacuum-based thin-film processes. This technology can be used to protect complex components or create functional thin films with unparalleled mec...

Sunlight, water, air and metal-organic catalysts – that could be all it takes: TU Wien has shown how catalyst design can be advanced for solar-driven NH3 synthesis. Without this chemical technology, feeding the world as we know it would be nearly impossible. The Haber–Bosch process, developed more t...

EP Ehrler is joining BDG. As a subsidiary, BDG brings these expanded capabilities to the Bürkert Group. While BDG specializes in automation, integration, and production and serial testing, EP Ehrler expands this profile with strengths in flow measurement technology, R&D-related testing, validation, ...

Reduciner, a deep tech startup originating from VTT, is commercialising a novel high-temperature technology that enables industrial companies to turn captured carbon dioxide (CO2) into usable fuel and valuable industrial raw materials. The company raised EUR 3.6 million in its first funding round, c...

The removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere is considered an important tool in the fight against climate change – but has so far been an energy-intensive and expensive process. Now, researchers have developed a new method that efficiently binds carbon dioxide and releases it again using only a small amou...

Electrolysers produce hydrogen. Fuel cells, in turn, generate electricity from hydrogen. Both technologies are considered key building blocks of the energy transition, offering well-established solutions for storing, transporting and producing renewable energy. However, there is a challenge: the pla...

For the first half of the current fiscal year (ended March 31, 2026), the ZEISS Group reported slight revenue growth, with revenue totaling 5.841 billion euros (prior year: 5.794 billion euros, up 1%). Earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) amounted to 955 million euros (up 33 million euros). The...