News & Events

The 1 tonne pro­duc­tion mile­stone marks a sig­ni­fic­ant step in ÄIO’s jour­ney toward com­mer­cial-scale man­u­fac­tur­ing of its next-gen­er­a­tion, eco­lo­gic­ally con­scious fer­ment­a­tion-derived ingredi­ents for…

Carl Zeiss Found­a­tion sup­ports inter­dis­cip­lin­ary pro­ject on CO₂ cap­ture and stor­age at the Uni­ver­sity of Jena with 1.8 mil­lion euros

Sewage treat­ment plants do more than just clean wastewa­ter. They are also sources of raw mater­i­als. In the KoalAplan pro­ject, research­ers from the Fraunhofer Insti­tute for Inter­fa­cial Engin­eer­ing and…

A research team from the Uni­ver­sity of Basel has developed a new molecule modeled on plant pho­to­syn­thes­is: under the influ­ence of light, it stores two pos­it­ive and two neg­at­ive charges at the same…

A car­bon-fiber plastic com­pos­ite that heals itself like skin and reshapes under heat is set to revo­lu­tion­ize the aerospace, defense and com­mer­cial industries.

The European Chem­ic­als Agency (ECHA) has pub­lished the updated pro­pos­al to restrict per- and poly­fluoroal­kyl sub­stances (PFAS) under the EU’s chem­ic­als reg­u­la­tion, REACH. The update has been prepared…

The ground­break­ing cere­mony on July 22, 2025 marked the start of con­struc­tion for the Engin­eer­ing Cen­ter for Sus­tain­ab­il­ity (Ingenieurzen­trum Nach­haltigkeit – IZN) on Freiburg’s air­port cam­pus. The…

The team used two dif­fer­ent AI approaches to design nov­el anti­bi­ot­ics, includ­ing one that showed prom­ise against MRSA.

Ensur­ing glob­al food secur­ity for the grow­ing pop­u­la­tion is an import­ant top­ic that many research­ers are deal­ing with. As the demand for food and sus­tain­able resources increases, the world’s oceans…