In its CeraMMAM project, a team of researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a system with which high-performance components can be produced from multiple materials in a single process using a universal binder system. This technology offers new prospects for industrial applications, particularly in medicine, mechanical engineering, and aerospace. During the Hannover Messe, April 20–24, 2026, the researchers will be presenting potential applications of multi-material additive manufacturing along with the first industrial prototypes and demonstrators at the KIT booth (Hall 11, Booth B06). 

The facilities of the Institute of Ceramic Technology (ITC) hosted a meeting to formally establish the Technical Committee of the Joint GEA Environmental Engineering Research Laboratory. The committee is composed of the Vice-Rector for Innovation, Knowledge Transfer and Science Outreach, David Cabedo; the Director General of AICE, Yolanda Reig; the scientific and technical coordinator on behalf of the UJI, Eliseo Monfort; and the scientific and technical coordinator on behalf of AICE, Irina Celades.

In October 2025, the Universitat Jaume I and the Association for the Research of Ceramic Industries (AICE) signed an addendum to their existing collaboration agreement to create the joint research laboratory GEA – Environmental Engineering Group. Its main aim is to promote joint research and innovation activities within the laboratory’s areas of work, fostering knowledge transfer and exchange in environmental engineering.

An international research team of the A1 Collaboration at the Mainz Microtron (MAMI) of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz has succeeded in determining the binding energy of the hypertriton with unprecedented precision. This experiment provides crucial new insights into the interaction between hyperons and nucleons – an aspect of the strong nuclear force that has so far remained insufficiently understood. The results show that the hypertriton is significantly more strongly bound than many earlier experiments suggested. The renowned scientific journal Physical Review Letters has recently published the study.

A new method developed with the participation of ICTER researchers shows that, in retinal imaging, less can mean more - fewer settings, fewer complications, and more information.

The more precisely we want to examine the human retina, the more clearly one of the fundamental limits of physics becomes apparent. In cellular-resolution eye imaging, the same trade-off has applied for years - tiny structures can be seen with impressive sharpness, but only within a very thin layer of tissue. To view the entire retina, researchers usually have to refocus and acquire several separate scans in a repetitive manner. An international team led by Dawid Borycki and Maciej Wojtkowski from ICTER, together with Zhuolin Liu and Daniel X. Hammer from the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), has now shown that this limitation can be overcome.

Rather than making the hardware even more complex, the researchers combined optical and computational procedures. This is an important step not only for advancing imaging physics, but also for improving the diagnosis of eye diseases and neurological disorders. The details are described in the article, “Computational aberration correction enables full-thickness retinal imaging with adaptive optics optical coherence tomography,” published in Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering.

Distributed fiber-optic sensors are widely used to monitor temperature and strain in infrastructure, but their spatial resolution has long been limited. In a new study, researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology and Yokohama National University, Japan, have demonstrated that operating near a previously avoided frequency regime and suppressing signal distortions allows reflection-based sensing to achieve a world-record spatial resolution of 6 mm among single-end-access configurations. This enables precise monitoring of temperature and strain in infrastructure

Researchers have demonstrated that bridging π-conjugated emissive chromophores with an aromatic fluorinated Zn(II) paddlewheel framework facilitates wide-ranging and reversible luminescence color modulation in the solid state in the presence of mechanical stress and hydrostatic pressure. This step converts a blue-emissive small organic molecule into a multicolor luminescent material. In solution, it behaves as a blue emitter, whereas in the solid state, its emission color changes reversibly over a wide range in response to the environment.

Cutinases are fungal enzymes that naturally degrade plant cuticles and show promise for recycling plastics. However, they must balance structural rigidity to withstand high temperatures with flexibility required for catalysis. Now, researchers have investigated the structural basis of catalytic activation in a heat-tolerant cutinase, CtCut, from the fungus Chaetomium thermophilum and found that a rigid core supports stability while a flexible lid is associated with catalytic function, offering insights for improving enzymes for plastic recycling.