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      • 2026
        • Automated Vitrification Scales Functional Tissue Models
        • Microstructure on Demand for Additive Manufacturing
        • Sealing Paper Packaging without Adhesives
        • Sliding Systems at the Friction Minimum
      • 2025
        • Spin-off Fusion Bionic Wins Fraunhofer Founder Award 2024
        • Efficient Manufacturing Techniques for Bipolar Plates: Advances in Fuel Cell Production
        • Fraunhofer IWS Scientist Receives Prestigious TSS President’s Award
        • Smart Leak Detection: Laser-Based Testing System Ensures Reliable Filter Quality
        • Listening to the Laser: Real-time Process Insight
        • Energy Transition – Sustainable, Low-Cost Batteries for the Electric Vehicles of Tomorrow
        • Ten Years of Fraunhofer AZOM: Optical Metrology Driving Innovation
        • Stopping Tritium Losses: Protective Coatings for Fusion Energy
        • Intelligent Laser Welding with Dynamic Beam Shaping Eliminates Filler Wire Use
        • EDcut Combines Process Expertise with System Technology
        • Saxony Bundles Expertise in the Field of Nuclear Fusion
        • Battery of the Future: Solid-state Chemistry for High-energy Cells
        • DRYplatform Launches: Battery Research Gains Lighthouse Infrastructure
      • 2024
        • Research Project: Silicon Nitride-based Particles as Promising Anode Material for Solid State Batteries
        • “Multi-color Vision” for Drone Flight, Vertical Farming and Autonomous Driving
        • The Sound of the Perfect Coating
        • New Opportunity for Cancer Therapy: Miniature Lab Provides Insights into Metastases Development
        • Laser Technology for a Lighter Future Flying
        • United by Science
        • Laser Expert Lasagni Elected to WLT
        • The Robotic Hand Learns to Feel
        • Establishment of a Saxon Network: Cost Effective Production of High-temperature Components Using 3D Printing
        • Overcoming Material Shortages: Fraunhofer IWS Develops Innovative Material and Process Solutions for Industrial Challenges amid Resource Scarcity
      • 2023
        • Radioactive Substances Fight Cancer in the Mini-lab
        • A new Generation of Instruments for Gas Permeation Measurement
        • Sharp Hyperspectral Eye for Chip Production
        • Establishing Design as an Integral Component in Research and Development
        • Visiting Scientist from Kiev and Fraunhofer Team Conduct Research into Decommissioning Destroyed Nuclear Infrastructure
        • Lasers Join Lightweight Sandwich Structures
        • Sulfur and Silicon as Building Blocks for Solid State Batteries
        • Optimizing Production Processes through Modularization
        • Focus on Added Industrial Value through Light
      • 2022
        • Lab-on-chip systems: From prototype to series production in no time
        • Lotus effects by laser
        • New light source: A million times brighter than the sun
        • Joining with solid-state lasers set to revolutionize steel construction
        • Christoph Leyens appointed to acatech Executive Board
        • HICLAD® enables resilient laser cladding with high-power laser
        • POWDERscreen monitors streams of powder into the laser melt
        • DRYtraec® to become technology platform
        • Fraunhofer project FibroPaths®: enabling rapid and safe development of antifibrotic drugs
        • Starting signal for the hydrogen age in freight mobility
        • Sandblasting with Light
        • Ultrasound Makes 3D Printed Parts Stronger and More Durable
        • New Fraunhofer safety technology reduces transportation accidents
      • 2021
        • Higher reliability for next-generation electronics
        • Intelligent robots for targeted combating of viruses and bacteria
        • Just a few hours instead of weeks: Hyperspectral vision speeds up barrier foil inspection
        • “Unweldable” not anymore: Optimized joining technology opens door to safe hydrogen use in aerospace industry
        • Additively manufactured rocket engine features an aerospike nozzle for microlaunchers
        • Digital expert system in materials science being created
        • "Fusion Bionic" lasers lotus effects – Fraunhofer IWS Dresden spins off lasertech company
        • Fraunhofer research in Zwickau consolidated
        • When the hip joint comes out of the printer
        • Materials Science and Engineering institutions collaborate on implementing a distributed research data infrastructure
        • Flexible fiber laser for rapid material processing
        • Solid-state battery to leap into industrial application
        • Environmentally friendly manufacture of battery electrodes
        • Clean air at all times
        • Superlubricity eliminates friction in engines
        • Additively manufactured copper components for linear accelerators
      • 2020
        • Additively manufactured rocket engine features an aerospike nozzle for microlaunchers
        • Detect cell changes faster
        • A fast, ecofriendly way of de-icing aircrafts
        • Clean without scrubbing and using chemicals
        • Hot patterns in cold space
        • Green laser melts pure copper
        • Future of flying being developed in Kamenz
        • Graphite instead of gold: Thin layers for better hydrogen cars
        • Light e-waste runabouts for cities
        • Fraunhofer Lighthouse Project futureAM Gets Metallic 3D Printing in Shape for Industrial Use
      • 2019
        • Elucidating the Atomic Mechanism of Superlubricity
        • Joining gun bonds metal and plastic within seconds
        • Economical engines due to less friction
        • International award for Christoph Leyens
        • Key component for batteries of the future
        • Additive machines discover superalloys
        • Waterproof thanks to rapid lasers
        • Economical energy storage for the electric car of tomorrow
        • Clean lungs thanks to laser process exhaustion
        • Further international award for Christoph Leyens
        • Stefan Kaskel appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor
        • Heat shields for economical aircrafts
        • High entropy alloys for hot turbines and tireless metal-forming presses
        • “KaSiLi”: Better batteries for electric cars “Made in Germany”
        • Fine-tuning for additive production
      • 2018
        • Original remains original
        • Change in dual leadership
        • Bonding without adhesive
        • Coaxial wire cladding in the next generation
        • With low pressure to the lightweight aircraft
        • Improved efficiency of aircraft engines
        • Lasers make the lotus effect on aircraft
        • Micro fishbones to stop car fuel thirst
        • Additive Manufacturing and Laser Welding Solutions presented at IMTS Chicago 2018
        • Micro energy harvesters for the Internet of Things
        • Less animal experiments on the horizon: Multi-organ chip awarded
      • 2017
        • Additively manufactured clamping structures improve adhesion and joining processes
        • Dresdner scientists print tomorrow’s world
        • Fraunhofer IWS Dresden collaborates with a strong research partner in Singapore
        • New energy-efficient technology to produce carbon fibers
        • Artificial mini organisms instead of animal testing
        • Smart laser processing heads in the digital age
        • New laser processes for innovative lightweight design
        • Laser structuring improves adhesion on metal and protects the environment
        • Professor Martina Zimmermann has been elected to be the new speaker of the German Materials Society (DGM) advisory board.
        • New IWS laser welding technology received certifica-tion by DNV GL - Maritim for welding processes in the shipbuilding industry.
        • µRevolution – worldwide most compact system for surface structuring by means of scanner-based direct laser interference patterning
        • A new welding head – remoweld®FLEX – for high frequency laser material processing of difficult to weld materials
        • Hyperspectral imaging for 100%-inspection of surfaces and films
        • "MuReA" provides quick and large-scale laser applications
        • Fraunhofer IWS is going to present novel coating solutions at the tradeshow EMO Hannover 2017
        • Lasagni awarded with Materials Science and Technology Prize 2017
        • Super-efficient – High-performance laser coated hydraulic cylinder rods
        • Scientists presented ten TOLAE projects in Dresden
        • futureAM – Next Generation Additive Manufacturing
        • “FLUX-LMDR” intends to increase energy efficiency of transformers
      • 2016
        • “Green” laser with 1 kW power in cw operation utilized for processing highly reflective metals
        • Inspection using light as a tool – Fraunhofer IWS offers a new platform for contactless material imaging
        • Diversity of systems for laser-based material processing
        • Dresden‘s high-tech from the 3D-printer
        • Latest news around battery research
        • Fraunhofer IWS scientists are now able to offer n-conductive polymers as processable paste
        • Berthold Leibinger Innovationspreis 2016: Laser beams stamp microstructures – Direct Laser Interference Patterning
        • Efficient railway vehicle bodies
        • Doing more with less – Lightweight constructions by hybrid joints
        • EARTO Innovation Award 2016 goes to Dresden
        • Dynamic beam shaping increases the attractiveness of laser beam fusion cutting
        • Fraunhofer IWS Dresden now has two directors!
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