Spark Award Videos
The Spark Award is given for the most promising invention at ETH Zurich resulting in a patent application. The Top 5 nominees are presented in videos every year.
2025
Miniaturized liquid handling for high-throughput screening in a box
Maximilian Breitfeld, Claudius L. Dietsche, Petra S. Dittrich
SO2LAR: light-activated oxygen sensor
Máté Bezdek, Lionel Wettstein
Soft finger exoskeleton to assist grasping in rehabilitation and robotics
Rafael Bänziger, Jan Dittli, Roger Gassert, Olivier Lambercy, Raffaele Ranzani, Jaeyong Song, Natalie Tanczak
RAPTURE: high-performance multi-metal additive manufacturing
Dion Pirchl, Michael Tucker, Raphael Steffen, Markus Bambach
POP-cycle: electrochemical recycling of organic pollutants into hydrocarbons and table salt
Patrick T. Domke, Alberto F. Garrido-Castro, Bill Morandi
2024
Pulsed electric fields in 3D histology
Adriano Aguzzi, Robert Axelrod, Leandro Buchmann, Jana Bünder, Francesca Catto, Stephan C. Fox, Alexander Mathys, Mirko Meboldt
Separation of rare earth elements using thiometallates
Victor Mougel, Marie Amélie Perrin
Enzyme responsive optical drain fluid sensor for postoperative monitoring
Alexandre H.C. Anthis, Inge Herrman, Alexander Jessernig
Stiff, damping and lightweight silicon and glass composites with micron and submicron viscoelastic interlayers and fabrication steps thereof
Walter Caseri, Andrei Gusev, Ioanna Tsimouri
Engineered bacterial strain with high cellulose production
Andrew DeMello, Nadia Enrriquez, Ankit Jain, Anton I. Kan, Julie Marine Laurent, Stavros Stavrakis, Mathias Steinacher, André Studart
Video Archive
The videos of the years 2014-2023 can be retrieved in the ETH video portal:
https://video.ethz.ch/campus/spark-award.html