Spark Award 2021
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Load-bearing, lightweight and now also recyclable: researchers led by Professor Paolo Ermanni were presented with the Spark Award in recognition of an innovative process for production of sustainable composite materials. ETH news article
Videos of the top 5 inventions
Multi-component fibrous moulding materials with deaeration features and manufacture thereof
Two-tier encapsulation of poorly soluble molecules in artificial protein cages
A long non-coding RNA as a potent and specific cell death effector of cancer cells
Tunable electro-optic modulator for boosting the efficiency of telecommunication systems
Programmable synthetic droplets and their uses
Photos of the award ceremony
The apéro in Polysnack
Top 20 inventions
D-BAUG
Smart-aggregate sensor for durability monitoring of reinforced concrete structures
Ueli Angst, Yurena Segui Femenias
D-BIOL
Engineering of deaminases to alter the activity window of base editors
Gerald Schwank, Lukas Villiger
D-BSSE
A long non-coding RNA as a potent and specific cell death effector of cancer cells
Renato Paro, Tosca Birbaumer, Yanrui Jiang, Tommy Schlumpf, Makiko Seimiya
PID Feedback control systems for robust control of molecular networks
Mustafa Khammash, Timothy Frei, Ching-Hsiang Chang, Maurice Filo
D-CHAB
Two-tier encapsulation of poorly soluble molecules in artificial protein cages
Donald Hilvert, Thomas Edwardson
Novel catalyst for the oxidation of ethanol in liquid-gas flow
Jeroen van Bokhoven, Sotiria Mostrou-Moser, Maximilian Moser
Programmable synthetic droplets and their uses
Paolo Arosio, Marie Kopp, Umberto Capasso Palmiero, Carolina Paganini
D-ITET
Ultra-wide band low power wake up radio
Michele Magno, Tommaso Polonelli, Thomas Burger, Vlad Niculescu
D-HEST
Scapula Orthosis to Support the Scapulohumeral Rhythm
Robert Riener, Yves Zimmermann, Anna-Maria Georgarakis
Device for rapid heating of liquids
Oliver Blattmann, Leandro Buchmann, Alexander Mathys
D-INFK
Robotically controlled cutting with a flexible rod-like tool
Roi Poranne, Stelian Coros, Simon Dünser, Bernhard Thomaszewski
D-ITET
Non-toxic electrochemical dissolution of gold nanoparticles for hand-held biosensing
Alexander Tanno, Yves Blickenstorfer, Raphael Tiefenauer, Janos Vörös
Non-invasive targeted small molecule delivery to brain via focused ultrasound
Mehmet Yanik, Mehmet Özdas, Aagam Shah, Paul Johnson
Ultrafast manufacturing of all solid state lithium ion batteries
Vanessa Wood, Paul Baade
D-MATL
Ultrahigh-pure magnesium alloys
Christian Wegmann, Jörg F. Löffler, Urs Gonzenbach, Leopold Berger, Philip Sturzenegger
D-MAVT
Multi-component fibrous moulding materials with deaeration features and manufacture thereof
Paolo Ermanni, Christoph Schneeberger, Nicole Aegerter, Joanna Wong, Shelly Arreguin
A new technology for imprinting free-form topography on the surface of biomedical devices for guiding biological responses
Aldo Ferrari, Edoardo Mazza, Raoul Hopf, Andreas Kourouklis, Xi Wu
D-PHYS
Method for localization of a scintillation event in a detector using hierarchical density based clustering
Max Ahnen, Jannis Fischer
Tunable electro-optic modulator for boosting the efficiency of telecommunication systems
Rachel Grange, David Pohl, Fabian Kaufmann, Marc Reig Escalé
Quantum cascade laser having stable frequency comb operation
Jérôme Faist, Ruijun Wang