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What if we could make electronics that could be disposed of and recycled like paper? This is exactly what the MATERIALS and LIFE institutes are…

A joint publication by MATERIALS and TU Graz was chosen as one of the best papers of 2022 in the field of "Advanced Materials Technologies".

From 15 to 17 May 2023, Photonics Austria organised a delegation trip as part of the project Photonics4Industry (P4I) and in conjunction with this…

Our customer Xfold Imaging Oy from Finland was awarded the Photonics 21 Innovation Award at this year's Photonics 21 Annual Meeting on April 27th in…

Nihan Atak, a research assistant at the MATERIALS Institute, is currently completing a two-month research stay at one of our project partners in…

On April 17, 2023, Project Adviser Susana Xará visited our MATERIALS Institute in Weiz as part of the H2020 project NextGenMicrofluidics, coordinated…

MATERIALS and its partners won the OE-A Innovation Competition Award at LOPEC 2023 for the Best Publicly Funded Demonstrator.

From February 1-3, 2023 MATERIALS exhibited at the world's largest trade fair for nanotechnology, nano tech in Tokyo.

In October 2022, we had the pleasure of welcoming the partners of the EU project OPTIMAL at our Weiz site.

PyzoFlex® technology developed at the MATERIALS Institute provides data-based feedback and detects temperature and pressure changes as well as…

Researchers at the MATERIALS Institute developed a formulation for a Silicone elastomer that can lead to significantly reduced production costs for…

Digitalisation has already found its way into viniculture. At the MATERIALS Institute, we develop sensor systems for the determination of glucose and…

Free-of-charge access for research & technology organizations, industry and small-medium enterprises to develop projects on sustainable flexible…

CARLA, career camp for students and PhDs at University of Graz, is taking place from 21 - 23.09.2022.

Smart Connected Lighting, a research group of MATERIALS, and PIK-AS Austria GmbH, both located in Southern Burgenland, have signed a strategic…

DI Dr. Andreas Weiss took over the leadership of the research group "Smart Connected Lighting" at MATERIALS in Pinkafeld as of April 1st, 2022. The…

JOANNEUM RESEARCH MATERIALS is a partner in the project PHABULOuS. The project launched an Open Call with up to €3 million funding opportunity to…

Franz-Peter Wenzl, expert in Smart Connected Lighting, presented the advantages of Li-Fi at the "Li-Fi: la connessione passa attraverso la luce" event…

At the beginning of October we had the pleasure of welcoming the partners of the EU projects PHABULOµS, NexGenMicrofluidics and SYMPHONY for the first…

Researchers from Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH MATERIALS created flexible integrated circuits precisely tuned by illuminating an organic…

Infineon Austria has joined forces with Innsbruck University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH in the research on ion-based processors with integrated optics.

One year after the project launch, the NextGenMicrofluidics consortium celebrated the project's major technological progress and the foundation of the…

Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user’s pulse and blood…

First field tests of the PyzoFlex® sensors on snow showed that the piezoelectric sensors work reliably even under extreme conditions such as cold,…

Researchers at Osaka University and JOANNEUM RESEARCH develop ultrathin self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user’s pulse and blood…

In the Spotlight is the specialist for the field of microfluidics, especially for so-called lab-on-a-foil systems.

Anja Haase is technical coordinator in the H2020 project NextGenMicrofluidics.

The €6.1 million project INNO4COV-19 is committed to supporting the commercialization of new products across Europe for combatting COVID-19 over the…

In medical diagnostics, patient-oriented rapid diagnostics, so-called point-of-care diagnostics, is becoming more and more important. In this context,…

ORF wissenswert: Lab-on-a-Foil for medical diagnostics.

This makes us a part of the new European centre for digital photonics innovations and the 19 million Euro Photonics Digital Innovation Hub.

Dr. Max Sonnleitner, CEO of GENSPEED Biotech GmbH, a partner of JOANNEUM RESEARCH, presented the company's COVID-19 test portfolio at the MATERIALS…

JOANNEUM RESEARCH's new drying and poling system for Pyzoflex® sensors, which is unique in the world, has recently gone into operation at the…

Recently the new, worldwide unique drying and poling machine for Pyzoflex® sensors of JOANNEUM RESEARCH at the Institut MATERIALS in Weiz has been put…

In the Spotlight: Dr. Martin Zirkl

The new drying and poling machine is used for printed sensors.

FlexFunction2Sustain – Open Innovation Test Bed launched on 1 April to boost innovations for sustainable plastic and paper products to reach the…

The European project HI-ACCURACY coordinated by MATERIALS started on April 1st, 2020. HI-ACCURACY is funded by HORIZON 2020 research framework…

The H2020 European research project SYMPHONY (Smart Hybrid Multimodal Printed Harvesting of Energy), coordinated by Joanneum Research, has started on…

Dr. Martin Smolka, project manager of the H2020 project NextGenMicrofluidics, spoke exclusively to Ärzte Exklusiv about the role of lab-on-a-chip…

Dr. Barbara Stadlober, Dr. Martin Zirkl and Dr. Mihai Irimia-Vladu placed a review article on the topic of sustainable smart sensors in the…

Prospectively, not only roof surfaces, but also facades, balconies and canopies can increasingly be used with photovoltaics modules. New…

The Institute of Surface Technologies and Photonics of JOANNEUM RESEARCH in Austria developed in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences…