🌕 What if spacecraft landing gear could recover its shape and be reused? Through ESA-supported RESHAPE, @csem.ch and Almatech developed a 3D-printed shock absorber tested over 24 reuse cycles.🚀 Discover how it could shape future Moon missions: bit.ly/4juKxHO #SpaceTechnology #AdditiveManufacturing
CSEM
CSEM
@csem.ch
CSEM is a Swiss technology innovation center developing advanced technologies with a high societal impact, which it then transfers to industry to strengthen the economy. The non-profit orientated, public-private organization is internationally recognized.
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⚙️ From promising material to industrial reality! In the final perspective of our Polymer Series, csem.ch’s Hengyu Li reveals how extrusion bridges polymer formulation, manufacturing and real-world performance. Read blog article : https://bit.ly/3TPhkNk
♻️ Recycling starts long before a product reaches the recycling bin. In Perspective #3 of our Polymer Series, csem.ch’s Lison Marthey explains why recyclability begins with smarter material design. Read blog article : https://bit.ly/487Q67P
🔬 What if a few micrometers could transform a product's performance? In Perspective #2 of our Polymer Series, csem.ch’s Xavier Bulliard explores how functional coatings enhance durability, protection and performance. Read blog article : https://bit.ly/4k4DYf6
♻️ One platform. Several perspectives. Endless possibilities. Our Polymer Blog Series is Live! First up: @ csem.ch’s Antonin Faes explores how smarter materials can make packaging more sustainable without compromising performance. Read blog article : https://bit.ly/4isZcSH
What if we could listen to the universe? @csem.ch is helping prepare @esa.int's LISA mission by independently testing NASA's lasers designed to detect gravitational waves across millions of kilometres. 🚀 Discover how Swiss precision supports space exploration: bit.ly/4yS2chb #LISA #Space#Photonics
⚙️ Could your deep-tech start-up be a fit for CSEM Elevate? 👉 Swipe right to see if your technical challenge matches what we’re looking for. 5 selected start-ups receive a Technical Lift worth up to CHF 50k. Recognize your challenge? Apply today 🚀 bit.ly/4h79ztt
⚙️ One engineering challenge can hold back a deep-tech start-up. CSEM’s new Start-up Elevate Program will support 5 selected companies with up to CHF 50,000 in engineering expertise to tackle one critical milestone. Applications close Nov 30. 👉 bit.ly/47257aN
☀️ Solar is moving beyond rooftops. In a new @natcomms.nature.com Energy Correspondence, @csem.ch’s Antonin Faes & European partners explore how integrated PV can bring energy generation into products, vehicles & buildings—where design matters too. #IntegratedPV 🔗 bit.ly/3UYVHKC
After 30 years at @csem.ch, from remote astronaut monitoring to digital wearable health used every day Jens Krauss is preparing to hand over our medtech activities to Matthias Peterhans. Matthias joins on 1 November. Full story: bit.ly/46jPjQD
@hslu-luzern.bsky.social (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts) and @csem.ch launch a joint professorship in Collective Human Robot Intelligence, strengthening their partnership in AI and Robotics. ➡️ Read the press release lnkd.in/edPkPJUB ➡️ View the job description lnkd.in/e8crWa2n
What if industrial sensors could analyse data on the spot? CSEM and Miromico’s compact wireless node combines ultra-low-power AI with modular radio technology for long-term, battery-powered monitoring. www.csem.ch/en/press/cse...
Every injection counts. Socorex and @csem.ch teamed up to develop a smart vaccination system for real farm conditions, delivering precise doses and automatically recording each injection to reduce waste, simplify traceability, and support animal welfare and food security. 💉🐄 bit.ly/4x6a2lU
How do better measurements become better care? In Part 2 of our women’s health series, @csem.ch experts Samantha Paoletti and Alia Lemkaddem explore wearables, AI, clinical validation and patient-centered design, from prenatal monitoring to everyday health. 🔗 bit.ly/4cjABMM
One schedule change could cut annual CO₂ emissions by 6% and costs by 2% in a Viteos heating network, no new equipment needed. See how @csem.ch and Viteos turn digital twins and field expertise into results (🗣️: FR ONLY): www.bulletin.ch/fr/un-parten... #EnergyTransition
☀️ Today’s sunshine, stored for tomorrow. Canal Alpha’s latest EUREKA episode visits @csem.ch’s Battery Innovation Hub in Neuchâtel to explore how solar energy can be stored until it’s needed. 🔋 Watch: bit.ly/4hXEpqK #BatteryInnovation #SustainableEnergy #EnergyTransition
👁️ For people with photophobia, light can be overwhelming. Azalea Vision and @csem.ch are advancing a biocompatible smart contact lens that helps manage incoming light, powered by ultra-thin flexible electronics inside the soft lens. Read: bit.ly/4vJL63M
💊 Solubility testing in early drug discovery can take days and consume scarce sample material. ORYL Photonics, @csem.ch, EPFL & @fhnw.ch co-developed a light-scattering instrument that reads a 384-well plate in ~15 minutes using far less material. Faster, leaner R&D: bit.ly/4xVrkU7
What if the women’s health gap starts with what we measure? In Part 1, @csem.ch experts Samantha Paoletti and Alia Lemkaddem explain why hormonal variation isn’t noise - it’s information & how bioconvergence can help turn it into better evidence for healthcare. 🔗 bit.ly/4wGdFP3
The same air can warn your sinuses and your crops 🌾 @csem.ch and Swisens AG are using multimodal AI to classify pollen and fungal spores in real time—helping improve allergy forecasts and giving agriculture more precise signals for action. Read: bit.ly/4fbbMV2
🪐 Some planets are found in a wobble of light. For NIRPS at ESO’s La Silla Observatory, @csem.ch has co-created with for UNIGE a laser frequency comb: thousands of stable markers to help astronomers in the future measure tiny shifts in starlight. Read: bit.ly/3QxUZSN
A village does not decarbonize like a city. In Grandvaux, ANERGYCAD co-designed with @csem.ch + partners will use a low-temperature anergy loop under the roads so buildings can tap local heat and upgrade it with heat pumps. Smaller infrastructure. Lower-carbon heating. Read: bit.ly/4ged5ng
🚀 What if a battery frame could do more than hold battery cells? Together with Almatech, CSEM developed a lighter, multifunctional design for space applications using additive manufacturing—validated at TRL 6 and with potential far beyond space. Read more : bit.ly/4vjsdnd
9,521 m, powered by sun and batteries ☀️ Raphaël Domjan and SolarStratos pushed solar-electric flight higher. @csem.ch helped with the ultra-light solar modules and battery expertise behind the aircraft. Not science fiction. Swiss engineering in thin air. Read: bit.ly/4oVaxfO
Proud to see CCRAFT, a spin-off from @csem.ch, raise USD 7.8m (CHF 6.3m) to scale Thin Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) photonic chip manufacturing in Switzerland. A strong signal that Swiss deep-tech research can become industrial capacity in a strategic global market. Read more: bit.ly/4vbONy6
The invisible work behind reliable electronics: fewer surprises. With Micro Precision Systems MPS, @CSEM.ch helped test failure risks, qualify materials and suppliers, and shape quality controls before scale-up. Reliability is built early, not inspected in at the end. Read: bit.ly/4vH8Sxc
🌟 We're pleased to announce the appointment of Annick Dubois as Chief People Officer and member of @csem.ch's executive leadership team. Bringing 20+ years of international HR leadership experience, she will lead CSEM's people strategy.🔗 bit.ly/4oZqDoX
A kids’ game that doesn’t fight screens with another screen 🕹️ Spin & Play developed by swip SA with @csem.ch + partners turns movement into the interface: jump, dodge, react. No cameras. No wearables. Just smart engineering for active play, now in Decathlon Switzerland. Story: bit.ly/3QGmXvC
🏆 A new award for research that moves innovation forward. @csem.ch’s Claude Nicollier Research Excellence Award celebrates outstanding work shaping Switzerland’s innovation landscape. Congratulations to first winner Kerem Artuk for his contribution to a solar world record: bit.ly/4g6byQ8
25 years in Central Switzerland 🎂 What started as a local bridge between research and industry is now part of a 640+ expert network helping Swiss companies build with robotics, sensors, AI, fluidics and more. Happy birthday, @csem.ch Alpnach. Read: bit.ly/3QCv6B1 #SwissInnovation
🎬 Movie-trailer energy, real-world tech. @csem.ch's Annual Report is out: faster medicines, trusted chips, solar skies, airborne AI, exoplanet hunting—and more stories of research moving into the world. Watch/read: bit.ly/4uNmOEw #DeepTech #SwissInnovation
Critical minerals are becoming a key pressure point in the energy transition. Proud to see @csem.ch ’s Bertrand Paviet-Salomon recognised by EQT Foundation for work on resource-light PV technologies, helping solar scale with fewer material bottlenecks: bit.ly/3Qano14
@csem.ch spin-off Actival has won the Medtech & Healthcare category at >>venture>>startup competition 2026 🏆A proud moment for Swiss deep-tech and for the startup ecosystem helping lab-born oral health innovation reach patients: bit.ly/43HbJKa
🎉 Big win for @csem.ch ! ORYL F1 won the Impact Expected award at EARTO Conference 2026. Built by Oryl Photonics, CSEM & @fhnw.bsky.social, the tech helps pharma researchers test drug solubility faster while reducing chemical, material & energy use: bit.ly/3QtqXzr
New materials matter when they become reliable space hardware. A €1M @csem.ch-led project will 3D-print new alloys into metal engine parts that run hotter, last longer & carry more load. With @empa-materials.bsky.social, Pave Space SA & @esa.int Phi-Lab Switzerland: bit.ly/4xcNOzE
Hamilton’s GlucoSense RS485 225 enables real-time glucose monitoring directly in bioreactors, helping improve process control in biologics manufacturing. Great collaboration with @csem.ch to turn advanced sensing and engineering into a practical tool for industry. 🧬⚙️: bit.ly/49ClEnD
Explore the science behind tomorrow’s technologies! @csem.ch’s 2025 Scientific & Technical Report brings together applied research in digitalization, precision manufacturing and sustainable energy — and the partners making it real. Read, explore, connect: bit.ly/4odp2eZ
One industrial problem can be the start of a bigger digital shift. @csem.ch's Digital Journey 2026 helps Swiss SMEs turn a concrete idea into a real project with CSEM experts — with up to CHF 100k in technical support or transfer hours: Apply by Sept 14: bit.ly/4o40Z1N
🧠 Could brain-inspired chips make future electronics smarter and more energy efficient? In this SwissChips Spotlight, @csem.ch/@ethz.ch doctoral student Xi Chen shares how his work on neuromorphic and human brain interface technologies could shape tomorrow’s healthcare and computing. bit.ly/49dNaHX
🌍 On World Preeclampsia Day, @csem.ch and MOMM Diagnostics highlight faster maternal diagnostics. The préXclude rapid test aims to assess preeclampsia risk from a fingertip blood sample in minutes — with new clinical results coming this fall: bit.ly/49zXfiL
🔋 We’re proud to open the doors of @csem.ch’s new battery dry room to Canal Alpha — where lithium-metal cells and next-gen pouch prototypes move closer to industrial reality. A rare glimpse inside the infrastructure helping Swiss SMEs and startups compete in the global battery race 🎥 bit.ly/4a1mhXZ
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Battery ideas need the right conditions to scale. 🔋⚡ @csem.ch new dry room in Neuchâtel (CH) is ready for teams working on next-generation battery cells. With BCN & SENE - Etat de Neuchâtel. Industrial-grade infrastructure, closer to Swiss innovators. Read more: bit.ly/4waA7Ro
🔋 We’re proud to open the doors of @csem.ch’s new battery dry room to Canal Alpha — where lithium-metal cells and next-gen pouch prototypes move closer to industrial reality. A rare glimpse inside the infrastructure helping Swiss SMEs and startups compete in the global battery race 🎥 bit.ly/4a1mhXZ
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Battery ideas need the right conditions to scale. 🔋⚡ @csem.ch new dry room in Neuchâtel (CH) is ready for teams working on next-generation battery cells. With BCN & SENE - Etat de Neuchâtel. Industrial-grade infrastructure, closer to Swiss innovators. Read more: bit.ly/4waA7Ro
@csem.ch spin-off CCRAFT was proud to stand among the finalists of the ZKB Pionierpreis Technopark 2026, one of Switzerland’s leading deep-tech entrepreneurship awards. While not taking home the main prize, the team won the Audience Award 🏆: bit.ly/4nlLQsc
AI-driven data growth is pushing silicon to its limits. Advanced photonics, especially #TFLN chips are enabling faster, more energy-efficient AI infrastructure. Proud to see CSEM.ch spin-off CCRAFT shape Europe’s next-gen photonics ecosystem. Interview by StartupValley Magazine 🇩🇪: bit.ly/4diCfhk
Battery ideas need the right conditions to scale. 🔋⚡ @csem.ch new dry room in Neuchâtel (CH) is ready for teams working on next-generation battery cells. With BCN & SENE - Etat de Neuchâtel. Industrial-grade infrastructure, closer to Swiss innovators. Read more: bit.ly/4waA7Ro