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The award-winning work enables smartphones to establish secure wireless connections faster and more reliably using their built-in Wi-Fi hardware The paper “Pair-Fi: Integrity Code Protected Secure Device Pairing via SDR-Enabled Wi-Fi Chips on Smartphones“, co-authored by Jakob Link, Florentin Putz, and IMDEA Networks Research Professor Matthias Hollick, has received the Best Full Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec 2026),...

Imagine buying three identical 3D printers. Despite being the same brand, the same model and even having similar serial numbers, each machine may behave slightly differently. Over time, and at scale, these differences can accumulate into significant manufacturing defects.

How are the metallic materials that will enable the technologies of the future designed, manufactured and characterised? This was the central question of the AM2C3 Summer School, held this month at IMDEA Materials Institute, which brought together researchers, PhD students and experts from several countries for a nine-day intensive programme dedicated to additive manufacturing and advanced materials.

BIOMET4D congratulates former IMDEA Materials Institute doctoral researcher, Ángela Castro María, after she successfully defended her PHD at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M)! The research for Ángela’s thesis on engineering advanced biomaterials for in vitro platforms of lung and skin was carried out as part of the Horizon Europe BIOMET4D project, coordinated by IMDEA Materials.

View of a molecular graphene nanotechnology structure. Production Perig/Shutterstock José Manuel Torralba, IMDEA MATERIALS We may be witnessing one of the most fascinating stories to emerge from the highly productive past few years of research in quantum physics and advanced materials: a tiny rotation, a slight twist, between atom-thick sheets of graphene created what physicists call a magic angle, opening up the possibility of engineering materials with seemingly unimaginable properties.

We are pleased to announce the publication of IMDEA Materials’ 2025 Annual Report, providing a comprehensive overview of the Institute’s activities, scientific achievements and institutional developments throughout the previous calendar year. The full report is available as an interactive flip-book on our website here.

IMDEA Materials Institute has developed mechanically tunable hydrogel membranes that closely mimic the mechanical environment of human skin while remaining highly biocompatible, representing an improved platform for skin tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Within the broad field of advanced therapies, which includes cell therapy and gene therapy, tissue engineering has emerged as one of the most promising tools for transforming the medicine of the future. Published by: Dr. Pedro J. Díaz Payno. PhD in Biomedical Engineering. The original version of this article can be found in Spanish in Fundación Muy Interesante. The goal of tissue engineering is to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissues or organs, whether as a result of disease or injury.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EQUIPMENT Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM) Thermo Fisher Scientific Apreo 2S LoVac. The microscope is equipped with a NiCol electron column with immersion lens and beam deceleration capabilities. Everhart-Thornley Detector (ETD), in-lens Trinity Detector System (T1,T2,T3), retractable backscatter detector (CBS/ABS), low-vacuum detector (LVD) and GAD-CBS/ABS for low vacuum mode.

IMDEA Materials Institute is pleased to announce the successful completion of the selection process for the ATENEA call, marking an important milestone in the implementation of this Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND programme coordinated by IMDEA Materials Institute.