Researchers have introduced a laser-triggered material platform that allows soft electronic devices and soft robots to be selectively erased, reshaped, or reprogrammed from a distance. By using light as a remote “transform button,” the technology enables rapid, localized decomposition of soft materials—opening new possibilities for secure device disposal, adaptive robotics, and operation in hard-to-access, resource-limited environments.

A synergistic paradigm to drive reactive chlorine chemistry inside porphyrinic zirconium frameworks is provided, and a avenue to merge catalytic, photothermal, and oxidative modes for enhanced antibacterial, detoxifying, and antitumor activities is opened.

Researchers have introduced a laser-triggered material platform that allows soft electronic devices and soft robots to be selectively erased, reshaped, or reprogrammed from a distance. By using light as a remote “transform button,” the technology enables rapid, localized decomposition of soft materials—opening new possibilities for secure device disposal, adaptive robotics, and operation in hard-to-access, resource-limited environments.

A new light-controlled organic semiconductor developed at Osaka Metropolitan University shows charge-transport performance comparable to leading organic semiconductor materials, offering promise for future “flexible” electronics.

A Korean-developed integrated design framework has been developed to comprehensively analyze “ship survivability”—a naval vessel’s ability to avoid enemy attack, withstand damage when hit, restore key functions after damage, and continue its mission. The key achievement is the integration of survivability analyses that had previously been performed using separate software tools into a single software environment.

A core audiovisual convergence display technology has been developed that allows sound to be heard from the exact location of a person or object shown on the screen. Without separate speakers, the technology vibrates the display panel itself to generate sound from a selected area of the screen. It can also move the sound-emitting location in real time as the sound source moves across the screen.

The Department of Clinical Oncology, Centre of Cancer Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has developed SUPPORT+, Hong Kong’s first integrated cancer health management application (app). Designed for patients with advanced cancer, the app enables continuous symptom monitoring at home and provides timely nurse-led support to help reduce the need for emergency visits and unplanned hospital admissions. To evaluate the clinical effectiveness of SUPPORT+, a HKUMed-led research team collaborated with six public hospitals to conduct a large-scale randomised controlled trial between 2023 and 2025. The study found that the digital platform effectively helped patients maintain their quality of life, improved self-management confidence, and significantly reduced unplanned hospitalisations. The findings were verbally presented at ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting 2026 and were published in the journal JAMA Network Open.