ASTRI has consistently garnered prestigious accolades and industry recognition, both locally and internationally, reinforcing Hong Kong’s position as a leading innovation and technology centre. These honours are a testament to ASTRI’s exceptional talent, world-class research capabilities, pioneering spirit, and unwavering commitment to translating R&D outcomes into tangible, real-world impact.

We invite you to explore our awards below to discover the achievements that exemplify ASTRI’s continued excellence and leadership in advancing technology.

Carbon Awards

Carbon Awards serves as a premier stage for advancing corporate social responsibility and low-carbon transformation, recognizing those who lead by example. The platform actively supports government-led low-carbon policies and the broader ESG agenda, providing a credible framework for organizations to demonstrate their commitment to a sustainable, net-zero future.
2026
Award Winnier

CarbonTrust (Co-applicant: Yau Lee Group)

CarbonTrust addresses key challenges through purpose-built technical solutions that combine blockchain immutability, AI Anomaly Detection and Cross-registry Intelligence in a unified platform. The platform integrates three mutually reinforcing innovations into a single subscription-accessible service, making trusted, automated carbon verification commercially viable for the first time at urban scale.
2026
Award Winner

EcoFlux: EcoCarbon-infused Natural Graphite Anode (Co-applicant: Graphex Innovation and Technology Limited)

EcoFlux Anode redefines spherical natural graphite through hard carbon infilling and a fast-ion coating developed using an eco-friendly aqueous process. This innovation delivers less than 5% anode swelling, charging capability in under 20 minutes, enhanced reversible capacity and nearly double the cycle life, offering a cost-effective, high-performance solution for long-life and high-energy battery applications.
2026
Award Winner

DyeMate-SC

Waterless dyeing is becoming increasingly important amid water scarcity and tightening regulations on microplastics. While supercritical CO₂ dyeing works for synthetic fibres, natural fibres remain incompatible with the process. DyeMate-SC overcomes this barrier, enabling supercritical CO₂ dyeing of natural fibres with performance comparable to conventional water dyeing while reducing resource consumption and environmental impact.
2025
Awards Winners

Multifunctional Gel-free Binder for High-performance Batteries with High-Ni Content Cathodes

This multifunctional gel-free PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride) binder revolutionises nickel-rich cathode performance in lithium-ion batteries. It delivers unparalleled slurry stability and enhanced adhesion strength, enabling reliable manufacturing of long-lasting high-performance lithium-ion batteries.
2025
Awards Winners

NuHip: Body-fitting, Comfortable Hip Protector for Bone Fracture Prevention

Hip fractures are the most severe fall-related injury in the elderly, especially in showers. NuHip is the world’s first hip protector for shower use, which contains a bio-inspired two-phase network and shape-memory materials, delivering adaptive, universal fit and superior impact protection — empowering safer, more comfortable, and independent living foraging individuals.
2025
Awards Winners

Transparent Sun Nanocurtain

The first-and-only long-lasting, low-cost, and easy-to-apply transparent sun nanocurtain coating offers outstanding energy-saving performance to various building windows, particularly those in old buildings. This innovative coating blocks 50% of solar radiation while enabling more than 60% visible light transmission and less than 6% reflection, the top leading performance in the world.
2025
Awards Winners

High Performing Dual Phases Nano Immersion Coolant for 5G Servers

The dual phases immersion coolant is designed for superior thermal management solution for servers. Based on segregated fluorination technology, the coolant can provide strong and high performing thermal physical properties, differentiating the product in the market.
2025
Awards Winners

Intelligent Pillow for Healthy Sleeping

The intelligent pillow is designed to have flexible sensor mat on pillow surface which captures pressure on neck and head area, and actuator with built-in MCU and airbags which adjusts pillow shape automatically based on real-time pressure distribution and customised by mobile APP. This can ease neck discomfort and chronic fatigue during sleeping.
2025
Awards Winners

Wrinkle-Free, Flexible and High Contrast Screen for Portable Display

The wrinkle-free, flexible, and high-contrast screen for the world's only collapsible, large, and portable display shows the 24-inch image with 2K high resolution that seamlessly expands and folds away in just seconds. The whole display is only 2.5 pounds in weight and folds to the size of a book.
2025
Awards Winners

Bio-inspired Silicone Sealant for Wet Surface Adhesion

Inspired by mussel’s secretion adhering to wet rocks, the one-part, neutral curing bio-inspired silicone sealant, developed from a unique additive synthesised with catechol groups, has excellent adhesion on hard-to-attach wet and dry surfaces.
2025
Awards Winners

Dual-Purpose Impact Dissipating Bollard for Road Safety

The dual-purpose impact dissipating bollard is the world’s first bollard with dual objectives of being both certificated highest level of safety for the occupants of vehicles and effective in stopping moving vehicles. Furthermore, its compact design with shallow foundation makes it ideal for both road sections and urban regions.
2025
Awards Winners

Gravity-free Brassiere Using Bio-inspired Shock-absorbing Materials

The revolutionary brassiere intelligently switches between flexibility and rigidity upon oscillation of breasts motion, restricting the breast movement and alleviating the pressure caused by their weight and vibration during physical activities. It provides gravity-free comfort and adequate support to women.
2025
Awards Winners

Micro-Foaming Pellets (MFPs) for Completely Closed-cell Foamed Bottles

The micro-foaming pellets (MFPs) provide an effective solution for reducing plastic use by 20% while retaining the critical mechanical strength. Expandable microsphere foaming agents encapsulated by ASTRI’s novel bi-component elastomer-rigid polymer matrix compose MFPs, creating discrete, completely closed-cells during extrusion blowing molding.
2025
Awards Winners

Eco-friendly Materials for Garment Heat Transfer Printing

The fully bio-based elastic polyester for heat-transfer printing can replace traditional petroleum-based polyurethane with similar properties and processing conditions, offering a lower carbon footprint, excellent elasticity, strong adhesion, and withstanding high-temperature washing and drying.
2025
Awards Winners

Drain-On-Demand Lithium Battery for Long-life IoT Devices

This energy-dense non-rechargeable lithium battery is specially designed for high power and long-life IoT devices, embedded with drain-on-demand coating and pore manipulation materials in electrodes to achieve ultra-low self-discharge, close-to-theoretical capacity even after long term storage, and high power discharge.
2025
Awards Winners

Rate-Responsive Smart Bandage for Sport Injury Prevention

This smart bandage intelligently switches between elastic and non-elastic modes to ensure action dexterity in normal activities and prevent injuries in high-speed joints twisting, having excellent sport injury prevention performance while maintaining flexibility of joints.
2025
Awards Winners

Hard Amorphous Metal Coating to Protect and Enhance Sharpness of Coffee Bean Grinding Blade

ASTRI’s amorphous metal coating on stainless steel is the industry’s first application for coffee grinding. It drastically increases the grinding blade's hardness, sharpness and toughness, prolonging its service life to 4 times, and leading to 50% finer coffee powders for silkier and more intense, robust coffee with original taste.
2025
Awards Winners

Sustained, Toxin-free, Anti-biofouling Silicone

With a permanent PEGylated repelling surface to impede bacterial growth, this toxin-free, anti-biofouling silicone has bio-safety and long-lasting germ-repellent efficacy of over 99%. In contrast to conventional leachable germ-killing biocides, this novel material neither causes antimicrobial resistance nor disturbs microbiome balance by killing beneficial microorganisms.
2025
Awards Winners

A Superior Thermal Management and Electromagnetic Wave Shielding Hybrid Solution

Designed for superior thermal management with high frequency electromagnetic (EM) wave shielding ability, the thermal conductive pad with graphite as thermal conductive fillers provides 2- 4 folds increase in thermal conductivity and outstanding EM wave shielding ability (30-50dB), leading the current product in the market.
2025
Awards Winners

Flexible, Transparent, and yet Super-Strong nCoating for Foldable Electronics Display

ASTRI’s nCoating is a transparent cover layer, a fusion of two opposite features: glass-like hardness and plastic-like flexibility, for foldable touch screen, to provide a super hard surface (9H hardness) and robust bending durability (foldable up to 500k cycles). Our new technology endows the anti-scratch performance to plastics and folding durability to glass.
2025
Awards Winners

Separator-free Lithium-Ion Battery - with Super Thin and Safe Performance Coating

With a breakthrough ultrathin and thermally stable nanofiber conformal coating placed on the electrode surface to replace conventional polymer separator, the lithium-ion battery has higher energy density, robust cycle and rate performances, leading the products in the market.
2025
Awards Winners

Ultrasound Nano Bubble Cold Brew Coffee and Tea Machine

This fast, energy efficient cold brew coffee and tea machine utilises ASTRI’s nano bubble technology where air nano bubbles generated in water and ultrasound energy to maximise the extraction of coffee/tea ingredients within 10 minutes, reducing traditional method with 12 to 24 hours steeping time and the risk of bacterial growth in prolonged refrigerated beverages.
2025
Awards Winners

A Green Battery Printed on LoRa IoT Devices

ASTRI's "A Green Battery Printed on LoRa IoT Devices", co-developed with Neosen Energy HK Limited, has been honored as 2019 R&D100 Awards Winner. This primary battery is designed for high power pulsing applications like LoRa IoT devices. The battery is developed with materials optimised for printability, high electrochemical performance and stability. It supports high pulse current and offers many advantages over the conventional batteries. The materials used are also environmentally friendly and safe for disposal.
2025
Awards Winners

H1500 Series Thermal Management Material

H1500 Series Thermal Management Material, which is designed for superior thermal management for 5G system, is based on ASTRI's composites which consist of nanostructure controlled materials, providing a 2-4 folds increase in thermal conductivity and lowering the contact resistance by at least double compared to the current leading products in the market.
2025
Awards Finalists

Sustained Anti-fogging and Anti-microbial Agricultural Film for Greenhouses

With a guanidine-functionalised and PEOylated surface, the film is ideal for greenhouse applications due to its dependable anti-fog and antimicrobial properties. Unlike conventional films, this film offers an extended lifetime by 3 times with increased photosynthesis and crop yield. This makes greenhouse farming less labor-intensive and minimises plastic use.
2025
Awards Finalists

N-FLEX: Flexible Circuit Board Superior in High-Speed and Low-Loss Data Transmission

ASTRI's N-FLEX transmission FPC is created specifically for electronic devices to transmit high-speed and high frequency signals. The dielectric material used in this FPC is developed using electrospinning and liquid infiltration techniques, resulting in low dielectric constant and loss, enabling high-speed transmission with excellent signal integrity.
2025
Awards Finalists

Safion: Self-Extinguishing EV Battery with In-Situ Quasi-Solid Electrolyte

ASTRI's self-extinguishing EV battery is filled with in-situ crosslinked, highly permeable, and flammable-radical-quenching quasi-solid electrolyte (QSE), with compatible process to existing batteries. It elevates hot-box stability over 30°C and extends the battery cycle life by 10 times under high temperature and high voltage compared to flammable liquid electrolyte.
2025
Awards Finalists

Eco-friendly Materials for Garment Heat Transfer Printing

The fully bio-based elastic polyester for heat-transfer printing can replace traditional petroleum-based polyurethane with similar properties and processing conditions, offering a lower carbon footprint, excellent elasticity, strong adhesion, and withstanding high-temperature washing and drying.
2025
Awards Finalists

Fluorine Free Hydrophobic/Oleophobic Nano-Shield Coating for Eco-Friendly Paper Based Food Packaging

The nano-shield coating, substituting conventional non-biodegradable and toxic PFAS, contains optimised composition of modified biodegradable polymer and nanoparticles, which are well dispersed and interact with each other to form cross-linking bonding for excellent water and oil repellency for paper food packaging.
2025
Awards Finalists

A Sustainable Anti-pilling Nano-Coating for Wool Garment

This is a green and high performance nano-coating of wool garment for effective anti-pilling, with highest grade (5) and minimal loss of fibers against wear and laundry, maintaining wool garments’ softness and colourfastness for a longer product lifetime.
2025
Awards Finalists

Sustainable Cellulose Aerogel for Extra Warm Ultralight Winter Outfits

ASTRI’s cellulose aerogel, a sustainable and ultralight insulation material that leverages cellulose nanofibrils extracted from spent corn husk, provides the highest insulation performance in winter outfits, and is 3.5 times warmer, 50% thinner and lighter than duck down feathers, and launderable for 50 times with no loss of insulation performance.
2025
Awards Finalists

Bio-Mimic, Non-Porous and Breathable Wig Cap

This bio-mimic is wig cap made of novel non-porous breathable material showing similar biophysical properties as human skin, which is 5 times more breathable with skin-comfort feeling compared with conventional products. This wig particularly benefits vulnerable people such as cancer patients who have to wear wigs as daily necessities with high comfort.
2025
Awards Finalists

Printed Rechargeable Battery Embedded Flexible PCB Module

This FPCB is produced by printing a solid-state rechargeable lithium battery directly on the board itself, resulting in a self-powered all-in-one component for electronics. This is the first time such an approach is adopted for electronic components. The FPCB is self-powered without the need for an external power source, and can be applied in IoT electronics, such as smart credit card, smart medical patch, etc.
2025
Awards Finalists

Ultra-Lightweight Geo-Insulator with Palm Fibers

Ultra-Lightweight Geo-Insulator with Palm Fibers is an innovative eco-insulator which is fireproof, totally non-toxic, and highly resistant to water absorption and bacterial growth. It can be utilised as wall-filling material or combined with other cover materials as individual building blocks, as well as for indoor partition wall, outdoor façade, fire-rated doors, etc.
2025
Awards Finalists

MULTIHEPA - A New Class of Nanotechnology enabled Multifunctional HEPA Filter

ASTRI's multifunctional HEPA filter effectively removes air particulates, kills bacteria and traps VOCs in the air, outperforming other air purification systems in sise, efficacy and energy saving.
2025
Awards Finalists

NASK - Breathable and Antimicrobial N99-qualified Facemask Using Nanofiber Technology

Adopting the cutting-edge nanofiber technology, ASTRI’s antimicrobial N99-qualified nanofiber facemask combines the desirable features of both surgical mask and N95 respirator, offering to users airborne infection protection with high comfort. This highly protective facemask can kill bacteria and trap over 99% of viruses, as well as filter PM2.5 airborne particulates. It also allows easy passage of air and is light to wear, offering comfortability and breathability.
2025
Bronze Medal of the Special Recognition: Green Tech

Zero Waste Compact Water Dispenser

ASTRI's "Zero Waste Compact Water Dispenser", co-developed with Mind Body (Asia) Limited, has been awarded a Bronze Medal of the Special Recognition: Green Tech. By utilizing dense functionalised nanofibers and activated ceramic absorbents to achieve high pollutant removal and high water flux, the zero waste compact water dispenser replaces traditional reverse osmosis water dispensers, offering outstanding performance and smaller sise without any wastage or the need for a water tank.
2026
Gold

【Public Safety, Security & Digital Integrity – Innovative Authentication & Access Control】NIR Secure Anti-counterfeit Solutions

NIR Secure Anti-counterfeit Solutions delivers an advanced authentication system that embeds invisible near-infrared (NIR) absorbing materials into product packaging for discreet security. Instantly verifiable via a smartphone NIR-Reader and dedicated application, the solution offers a scalable, robust system to combat counterfeiting and ensure product authenticity without disrupting existing design or production workflows. The technology was co-developed with Zhuhai Print-Rite New Materials Corporation Ltd.
2026
Gold

【Consumer Solutions – Wearables for Safety & Resilience】dxp® All-Directional Impact Management System DXP Helmet Pad

dxp® All-Directional Impact Management System DXP Helmet Pad tackles the limitations of conventional helmets, which provide inadequate protection against all-directional rotational impacts—a major cause of concussions. This innovative impact management system can be retrofitted to a wide range of helmets without compromising comfort or breathability. The technology was co-developed with Dacy Pro Limited.
2026
Silver

【Consumer Solutions – Wearables for Safety & Resilience】NuHip

NuHip addresses a critical gap in elderly care as the world’s first shower-friendly hip protector designed for the highest fall-risk scenario. Its innovative one-size-fits-all design adapts to various body shapes whilst providing Level 2 impact protection (EN1621-1 certified), reducing impact forces from 10,000 Newtons to under 2,500 Newtons to prevent fractures. Being both skin-friendly and soft, NuHip promotes daily wear, enabling safer and more independent living for elderly users.
2026
Silver

【Consumer Solutions – Smart & Adaptive Textiles】Oscillaware Fiber

Oscillaware Fiber represents a breakthrough in eco-friendly elastic textiles, offering adaptive muscle support that provides over three times the support of traditional fibres during intense physical activity, significantly reducing injury risks. Produced via sustainable melt spinning processes, the fibre combines exceptional comfort, breathability and design freedom, revolutionising textile performance and functionality across sporting and everyday applications.
2026
Silver

【Engineering & Robotics – Optical Sensing & Spatial Intelligence】Smart Optics Precision Positioning System

Smart Optics Precision Positioning System supports component precisealignment and hoisting safety monitoring by providing tower crane operators with precision positioning, alignment and real-time route monitoring. This system incorporates several advanced technologies, including optical-based non-Visible Light Communication (nVLC) and neuromorphic sensing. Leveraging these technologies, the system delivers fast position and dyASTRIc tracking to enhance operational efficiency in hoisting. The system has been applied in various public housing projects in Hong Kong.
2025
Gold

Bio-Based Biodegradable Composite-Molded Reusables

ASTRI’s highly durable, moldable and biodegradable bio-based composite material, crafted from cellulosic agricultural waste, contributes to carbon neutrality and enables cost-effective production of reusable daily products.
2025
Gold

Nanocurtain: Energy-Saving Transparent Window Coating

The world’s top performing long-lasting, low-cost, and easy-to-apply window coating with exceptional energy-saving capabilities for window of various shapes, blocking 50% of total solar radiation while allowing over 60% visible light transmission and less than 6% reflection.
2025
Gold

All Weather Mission Critical Battery for Next Generation Emergency Call (NG-eCall) Systems

ASTRI's battery for NG-eCall system allows over 15-min voice calls across a wide temperature range from -40°C to 85°C, with 10 years of storage without degradation even at temperature above 50°C, ensuring eCall system functions continuously throughout the vehicle's service life, regardless of location or time.
2025
Gold

E-NANO FTHR-001 Resin

Co-developed with Chung Yin New Materials (H.K.) Company Limited, E-NANO FTHR-001 Resin is a transparent cover layer, being a fusion of glass-like hardness and plastic-like flexibility, for foldable screen with super hard 9H surface, high impact resistance (pen drop at up to 15cm) and robust bending durability up to 500k cycles. It endows plastics with anti-scratch performance, and glass with folding durability.
2025
Gold

Printed Battery – HP

Printed Battery – HP (Printed Flexible Battery with High Power Output), co-developed with Neosen Energy HK Limited, took the Gold Award in the Energy & Sustainability category and Advanced Energy Systems subcategory. It is a thin and flexible battery made with eco-friendly materials. Developed with advanced materials designed for good printability and high electrochemical performance, the battery features low internal resistance and provides superior rate performance, allowing unprecedented power output with a compact form factor.
2025
Silver

PAPEL+™: Water-Resistant, Oil-Resistant, Germ-Repellent Coating for Paper Packaging

A plastic-free varnish for food paper packaging, providing ideal water- and oil-resistance along with germ repellency. It meets FDA food-contact safety standards, prevents bacterial contamination, and is certified 100% repulpable. PAPEL+ revolutionizes traditional plastic-lined paper packaging, offering a safe, eco-friendly alternative.
2025
Silver

Safe and Non-Flammable EV Batteries

ASTRI's safe EV battery with non-flammable and in-situ formed quasi-solid electrolyte (QSE) is compatible with existing processes. The QSE precursor withstands in-line 45°C high temperature wetting for hours before solidification, providing 10 times extended cycle life under 45°C and 4.5 V high temperature high voltage cycling, and more than 30°C thermal stability improvement over liquid counterpart.
2025
Silver

AN-1: Ultra-stable Lithium Metal Battery (LMB) with 3D Nano-Scaffold Anode

ASTRI's AN-1 5Ah LMB is the world's first long-cycle lithium metal battery with a flexible 3D nano-scaffold anode, offering 40% higher energy density than the latest lithium-ion batteries. It maintains stable for >500 cycles under 1C and passes the 145°C hot box safety test, making it ideal for portable electronics.
2025
Silver

Rate-Responsive Smart Bandage for Sport Injury Prevention

ASTRI's "Rate-Responsive Smart Bandage for Sport Injury Prevention", co-developed with Young King Hi-Tech Company Limited, intelligently switches between elastic and non-elastic modes to ensure action dexterity in normal activities and prevent injuries in high-speed joints twisting. It also has great protection against blunt force trauma.
2025
Silver

Impact Dissipating Bollard for Road Safety

ASTRI's "Impact Dissipating Bollard for Road Safety" (IDB) can stop the moving vehicles effectively and has achieved Class A of acceleration severity index, greatly improving safety of vehicle occupants and pedestrians upon vehicle crash. Besides, the shallow foundation of ASTRI's IDB makes it ideal for both road sections and urban regions.
2025
Silver

Probiotics Revitalizing System (PRS)

Co-developed with Nox Bellcow Cosmetics Co. Ltd., PRS keeps the live probiotics at dormant state in multi-layered nano-shells of biopolymers during storage, which are activated upon contact with a specially formulated releasing medium, for the revitalization and colonization of probiotics on skin, bringing extraordinary health benefit through skin microbiome balance.
2025
Silver

Graphite-Metal Composite-HCM

Graphite-Metal Composite-HCM is a breakthrough in material which delivers extraordinarily high thermal conductivity over metals. With anisotropic materials alignment techniquesand optimized formulations, metals are infused to the aligned graphite network, achieving superior thermal conductivity with ultra lightweight.
2025
Silver

HPC Battery for Extreme Temperature IoT Trackers

HPC Battery for Extreme Temperature IoT Trackers is developed with the engineering of advanced nanomaterials to improve the ionic conductivity and charge retention under extreme temperatures. The battery features superior extreme temperature tolerance under high pulse discharge and ultra-low self-discharge current, allowing stable power output and long lifespan for IoT trackers and sensors under harsh environment.
2025
Bronze

NanoSwab - Bio-inspired Microstructure for Human Papillomavirus DNA Detection in Male

ASTRI's NanoSwab is a biomimetic sampler tailored for male genital cell collection. The uniform micropillars on it harness friction to collect and trap adequate cells in a single step for subsequent HPV DNA detection in men without any discomfort, encouraging male HPV screening.
2025
Bronze

H1500 Series Thermal Management Pad

H1500 Series Thermal Management Pad (Anisotropic Thermal Management Pad for 5G Telecommunication System), co-developed with HFC Industry Limited, took the Bronze Award in the Energy & Sustainability category and Energy Grid & Network Enhancements subcategory. H1500 series thermal pad is the next generation thermal interface materials based on ASTRI’s nanocomposites and material alignment technique, providing strong, directional and efficient heat transfer for superior thermal management system required for 5G telecommunication system.
2026
Gold Medal

Energy storage safeguard system with multiple fail-safe active protection mechanisms for AI data centres and low-carbon buildings

Pioneering safeguard for battery storage detects early failures with gas-thermal sensor array. By isolating faults and stabilising power, ensuring uninterrupted output, minimising downtime and maximising reliability for AI data centres and green buildings
2026
Gold Medal

CAPE: Copyright-aware optimization for multimodal image generation

CAPE is a framework enhances existing image generators, ensuring copyright compliance while preserving creative intent and visual fidelity. It operates efficiently without retraining, enabling ethical, high-quality outputs with low computational cost
2026
Gold Medal

AI-powered predictive network fault detection in 5G fully connected factories

Leveraging AI-driven diagnostics, this technology predicts and analyses network faults in 5G smart factories. It reduces network disruptions, ensures smooth device communication, and lowers operational costs, boosting manufacturing efficiency.
2026
Gold Medal

Method for 5G phones to instantly connect to satellites

This invention improves handset-to-satellite connectivity via novel phase estimation/compensation, achieving >99% first access message detection success. It cuts delay from seconds to milliseconds for instant 5G-satellite links vital in emergencies.
2026
Gold Medal

Co-aperture multi-spectral imaging optical zoom system

Using an innovative inverted Galilean afocal lens design, this system captures high-quality images of Visible, SWIR and LWIR light through a single optical path. Ideal for all-weather surveillance, it enables real-time object recognition and tracking.
2026
Bronze Medal

Secret sharing-based fast training for federated learning systems

This secure federated learning method allows users secret sharing for efficient matrix multiplication. It achieves faster training speeds while maintaining robust security, avoiding the complexity of homomorphic encryption.
2026
Bronze Medal

Multi-functional eye health device for regular monitoring and early screening

An eye health monitor offering corneal tomography, 3D OCT imaging, axial length measurement, fundus imaging, pupillometry and more. Designed for tele-ophthalmology and mass screening, it ensures efficient, early detection of eye conditions.
2026
Bronze Medal

Multi-reflectional and multi-spectral immersion ultrasonic sensing

This advanced ultrasonic system analyses immersed samples using multi-surface acoustic waves. It delivers precise, non-destructive testing for industrial and underwater applications, offering unparalleled accuracy and comprehensive analysis.
2026
Bronze Medal

Apparatus and method for sensing integrated display

This compact HMD design integrates sensing and display systems using a unique coupling prism, enables the simultaneous capture of multiple optical views with a single sensor. This approach reduces costs & complexity, while enhancing user experience.
2026
Bronze Medal

A lightweight apparatus and fast method for children’s learning difficulties screening

This user-friendly system collects multi-modal data, analysed by AI fine-tuned with therapeutic insights. It generates detailed reports, offering an efficient, accessible solution for early identification of learning difficulties.
2026
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

ReCon-Fill: Flowable Backfill Material from Recycled Construction Waste

A self-compacting backfill made with ~90% recycled construction waste reduces carbon emissions and cost. Its high flowability fills congested areas without layer-by-layer compaction, improving efficiency and safety. Low final strength enables easy hand excavation for future maintenance, and it can be delivered ready-mixed and used in adverse weather.
2026
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Crystal-Clear Bioavailable Polyphenol Complexes

Polyphenols are hydrophobic, creating cloudy, ineffective supplements. Supercritical CO₂ processed peptides transform them into crystal-clear, water-soluble complexes with superior absorption.
2026
Gold Medal

NIR-Secure: Near-Infrared Invisible Ink

NIR-Secure embeds invisible NIR-absorbing materials in packaging for discreet authentication. Products are verified instantly with a smartphone NIR-Reader and App, ensuring protection against counterfeiting, supply chain issues, and diversion. The system uses molecular spectral signatures and algorithms for secure real-time verification.
2026
Gold Medal

Multiflex-NR9: Multifunctional Gel-free Binder

A multinational gel‑free binder for next‑generation Ni‑rich cathodes, fabricated via a simple, cost‑effective grafting process. The binder delivers 10‑day extended slurry stability, 20% higher binding strength, and impurity‑scavenging capability, which significantly prolongs cycle life under 20‑minute fast charging.
2026
Silver Medal

Aqua Shield Vapor-Lock Epoxy Primer

With >99% solids, zero VOCs, and the ability to cure underwater, this epoxy primer forms an impenetrable hydro-shield (Sd >130m) that bonds concrete for life. Its fast self-leveling, low-exotherm chemistry cuts labor and waste in half, delivering premium protection without the premium price.
2026
Silver Medal

Sustainable Seaweed Packaging Film with Water and Oil Resistance

This film made from marine biomass is a new kind of plastic alternative that is food contact safe, easy to produce on a large scale, and is home compostable. It's also resistant to water and oil and can be heat-sealed.
2026
Silver Medal

Bifunctional Insect Repelling and Killing Treatment Agent for Fabric Applications

This washing agent for fabrics uses a nanotechnology shield that repels and eliminates bed bugs and prevents them from coming back. This innovative solution cuts down on chemical use, offering a more eco-friendly way to control pests.
2026
Bronze Medal

Micro-foamed Mannequins and Robots with a Reduced Carbon Lifecycle

Micro-foamed mannequins and fiber-reinforced robots made from recycled materials and engineering plastics respectively help reduce plastic waste and lower carbon emission, yet maintain mechanical strength. This innovative technology incorporated phase change materials into micro-foaming pellets, thus performs excellent heat resistance which suitable for recycled plastic product manufacturing. This technology supports cyclic economy and meets environmental and social responsibility.
2025
Bronze Medal

Tiny Machine Learning Platform for Computation Optimisation

A standalone tiny machine learning device utilising optimised Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture and algorithms designed for environments with limited resources, power, and latency requirements. CNNs, widely deployed in artificial intelligence applications including voice command recognition on edge devices, are reimagined through this hardware platform specifically engineered to reduce computational complexity via block float point calculations.
2025
Bronze Medal

Continuous Line for Automatic Diamond Colour Grading

This is a sophisticated automated diamond colour-grading machine capable of continuous assessment with ±0.5 grade accuracy. This revolutionary technology uses standard unbiased internal references to evaluate loose 'diamonds' colour grade, eliminating subjective human assessment and standardising the valuation process throughout the gemstone industry.
2025
Bronze Medal

Dynamic Hybrid-frequency Spatial-carrier Deflectometry-based 3D Inspection System

This invention introduces a high-resolution dynamic 3D defect inspection system tailored for thin films in new energy applications. Unlike traditional 2D inspection methods, it excels in identifying 3D defects that can cause short circuits or overheating in batteries. It is also adaptable for inspecting a wide range of specular surfaces on motion production lines, ensuring versality and reliability in industrial settings.
2025
Silver Medal

A Portable Automatic Control System for Capsule Endoscopy in Stomach

This revolutionary capsule endoscopy system offering automated and precise stomach examination solution. Employing cutting-edge control algorithms and 3D reconstruction technology, this system delivers enhanced diagnostic accuracy whilst significantly reducing costs, making gastrointestinal evaluations more accessible to patients.
2025
Silver Medal

Efficient Data Storage Methods for AI Computing

Revolutionise AI capabilities with this groundbreaking solution addressing surging storage demands and energy consumption. By harnessing unique AI data characteristics, this innovation delivers efficient compression and resource allocation, substantially reducing storage requirements and power usage, realising a more intelligent and sustainable data management for tomorrow's technological landscape.
2025
Silver Medal

Autonomous Connectivity Suite for Critical 5G Applications

In mission-critical 5G applications such as autonomous vehicles and smart cities, stability is paramount to prevent costly downtime. This innovation, featuring Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) with automatic reconnection, enhances logistics communication, ensuring timely inventory updates and highly-efficient operations. The technology reduces expenses and operational inefficiencies through superior connectivity and resilience.
2025
Silver Medal

5G-Enabled Remote Crane Control and Site Coverage for Safer Construction Sites

The construction sector is increasingly adopting advanced technologies, including crane control systems and IoT sensors, to bolster safety and efficiency whilst relying on stable uplink transmission. This breakthrough proposes dynamic uplink resource allocation technology, incorporating 5G uplink efficiency with bandwidth part switching and DMRS-based multi-user scheduling to enhance communication quality and spectrum efficiency, addressing industry challenges while improving workplace safety.
2025
Silver Medal

Generative Pretrained Large Traffic Model for Multi-Modal Traffic Data Understanding

This pioneering invention presents a traffic data understanding method utilising a generative pretrained model. The process encompasses multi-modality data collection, feature extraction via tokenisation, and comprehensive model training. By analysing this novel data language, researchers can understand and forecast how various traffic factors influence one another, revolutionising urban planning.
2025
Silver Medal

Dynamic Vision Sensing System with A Static Capturing Mode

This state-of-the-art invention redefines vision sensing system by overcoming the limitations of traditional Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS). It seamlessly detects both dynamic and static objects through a combination of advanced optics, artificial intelligence, and innovative modular components. The result is precise action recognition delivered in a compact, energy-efficient design, making it a breakthrough in modern sensing technology.
2025
Silver Medal

Optical Digital Encoding-Decoding System

This invention integrates optical methods with digital encoding techniques to revolutionise secure anti- counterfeiting measures in printed materials. By utilising Resonant Waveguide Gratings (RWG) for image encoding, it employs angular multiplexing and aperiodic diffraction gratings to enhance image visibility. This sophisticated system strengthens verification processes in security applications while ensuring confidentiality across diverse data sets, offering a robust solution to counterfeiting challenges.
2025
Bronze Medal

Implementation Method of Ultrasonic Echo Envelope Detection

A breakthrough method for ultrasonic echo envelope detection has emerged, markedly improving signal-to-noise ratio and sensor SoC performance. IC design firms can now leverage these bespoke solutions for precision detection, creating immense industrial opportunities, especially this technology strengthens safety features in automotive ultrasonic sensors, contributing to safer roadways.
2025
Bronze Medal

Identity Non-Fungible Token for Identity Verification in Metaverse & Online Services

A blockchain-based identity authentication system leveraging identity NFTs to bridge Web3, blockchain and real-world identification through verifiable credentials. Users demonstrate ownership of accounts and wallets, with records maintained on an immutable blockchain. The system employs sophisticated cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs for secure verification, strengthening privacy and security for third-party identity confirmation in digital environments.
2025
Bronze Medal

System and Method for PDF Document Semantic Parsing Combining Visual and Textual Features

This innovative solution transforms PDF document parsing by introducing a Document Layout Classification Model that categorises elements using statistical rules based on images, layouts and text. It employs a Semantic Recovery Technique for complex components and Text Structure Rules to maintain hierarchical organisation, enhancing accuracy and usability for subsequent natural language processing tasks across multiple sectors.
2025
Bronze Medal

An Algorithm and Edge Computing Method for Urban Noise Pollution Monitoring

This cutting-edge solution addresses real-time noise monitoring, establishing a robust communication platform linking edge computing devices with distributed sensors. It features automated, decentralised intelligence for noise detection and classification, employing a CNN+Shift+Pitch engine for precise identification. The dual communication network, combining LoRa and 4G technologies, optimises data transmission and bandwidth efficiency in urban environments.
2025
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Automatic Tunnel Inspections System (Co-developed with MTR Corporation)

It boosts safety through AI technology by detecting the locations of various trackside assets. It can be easily installed on engineering locomotives to locate individual assets within tunnels automatically, significantly improving inspection efficiency.
2025
Gold Medal

Power Demand Optimisation AI Cohort (Co-developed with MTR Corporation)

It provides instant analysis of the status of power equipment, power consumption and station environments, deriving optimal operation suggestions, hence reducing peak demand and achieving efficient use of resources.
2025
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Body-Fitting, Comfortable Hip Protector for Bone Fracture Prevention

This new hip protector is designed for the elderly, offering a soft feel and a snug fit that adapts to the body. It provides excellent protection against impacts, reducing injury risks and is comfortable enough for everyday wear.
2025
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

3D-Printed Premium Salmon Sashimi: A Pioneering Vegan Raw Fish Reshaping Ecology for a Sustainable Future

A new kind of vegetarian salmon has been developed using cutting-edge 3D printing and nanostructured bigel technology. This innovative approach produces vegan salmon sashimi that closely replicates the appearance, texture, and nutritional value of real fish, offering a superior alternative to traditional options for growing population of vegetarians.
2025
Gold Medal

SustainaChroma – High Yielding Microbial Dyes for Unique and Sustainable Colors on Textile and Garment

SustainaChroma offers eco-friendly dyes for fabrics and clothing that deliver bright, long-lasting colours. These dyes are created using a unique genetic modification method that enhances enzyme production to ensure consistent and high-quality results.
2025
Gold Medal

Nonflammable Fluorinated Ether-Based Electrolytes for Safe Lithium Metal Battery

Fluorinated ethers improve battery performance and safety for high-voltage uses. These advanced electrolytes allow batteries to work at high voltages of 4.5V or more, last longer, and are safer, especially in pouch cell designs.
2025
Gold Medal

Oxidation-Free Copper Die Adhesive for the Third Generation Semi-Conductors

A new, budget-friendly die adhesive for high power electronics uses sintered copper nanoparticles to create high thermal conductivity, strong and reliability connections.
2025
Gold Medal

Peelable Nano Protective Coating

This eco-friendly, solvent-free coating enhances scratch and impact resistance for finished surfaces, increasing their durability outdoors. It offers great UV protection, repels water and provides good light translucence, making it perfect for protection use during renovations.
2025
Gold Medal

Super-Durable Anti-Fogging and Anti-Bacterial Greenhouse Agriculture Film

The film keeps greenhouses clear of fog and microbes, with its functionality well maintained throughout the entire service life, which is perfect for agricultural environment. It helps crops use sunlight better, boosting their quality and growth.
2025
Gold Medal

Dual-Scale Porous Nanofibers for Highly-Sensitive Diagnosis

This new test strip offers unprecedented detection sensitivity. It utilises nanofibers that feature larger pores between the fibers and tiny pores on the fiber surfaces. This unique 2-scale porous structure provides more surface area for antibody attachment, enhancing the likelihood of successful detection, thus reducing the occurrence of false negatives.
2025
Gold Medal

Two-Phase Immersion Cooling System for High Performance Computer Workstation

The two-phase immersion coolant can provide strong and high performing thermal physical properties, differentiating the product in the market.
2025
Silver Medal

Self-Extinguishing EV Battery with In-Situ Quasi-Solid Electrolyte

This new EV battery design includes a special electrolyte that prevents fires, improves high-temperature stability by over 30°C, and makes the battery last 10 times longer under tough conditions.
2025
Silver Medal

Pressure Sensor Mapping System for Foot Health Monitoring

This advanced pressure sensor system tracks foot pressure, arch condition, weight distribution, and balance to evaluate foot health and recovery.
2025
Silver Medal

Sustainable Eco-Permeable Solution for Climate-Resilient Cities

This new eco-friendly material, created from recycled content and cutting-edge technology, has an infiltration rate 50 times higher than typical products. It stops blockages in heavy rain, making it perfect for handling extreme weather.
2025
Silver Medal

Transparent and Wipe-Resistant Spray-On Antimicrobial Coating for Steel and Plastic Surfaces

This innovative spray-on coating effectively keeps metal and plastic surfaces bacteria- and virus-free while preserving their aesthetic appearance. It is highly durable, resistant to wet wiping, and stays effective even after 1000 cycles of cleaning with acidic or alkaline solutions (pH 5-9).
2025
Silver Medal

Carbon-Neutral Biochar Concrete for Sustainable Green Building

A new type of concrete using advanced biochar technology reaches strong structural standards while achieving net-zero carbon emissions. This innovation supports sustainable construction and aligns with carbon-neutral goals.
2025
Silver Medal

pH-Responsive Biopolymer System for Extended Laundry Durability

A revolutionised water-based biopolymer system transforms the fabric industry by keeping functional fabric finishes, like antimicrobial and antistatic agents, intact even after 50 washes. This innovative system adapts to pH changes between human skin and laundry process, ensuring these treatments stay effective.
2025
Bronze Medal

All Weather In-Vehicle eCall Battery with Wide-Temperature Electrolyte

The new 5G Emergency-Call battery can send automatic accident alerts for over 15 minutes, even in extreme temperatures ranging from -40 to 85°C. It also lasts up to 10 years in high-temperature storage.
2025
Bronze Medal

Highly Durable and Moldable Biobased Composite Material with Controllable Degradability

This innovative, eco-friendly material is made from agricultural waste, making it both durable and biodegradable. It's easy to shape and works well with large-scale production, helping to reduce environmental impact.
2025
Bronze Medal

High Bio-Based and Compostable Superabsorbent Polymer

This eco-friendly superabsorbent material is made mostly from natural sources and can break down naturally. It absorbs liquids just as well as traditional, petroleum-based options.
2025
Bronze Medal

Low-Carbon and High-Strength Concrete for 3D Printing

This innovative 3D concrete printing technology uses local, eco-friendly recycled materials to create sustainable and versatile concrete elements.
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Gemstone Eye: Apparatus for Gemstones Identification

This automated device is an all-in-one solution for fast distinguishing between lab-synthetic diamonds with natural diamonds, and diamonds with other kinds of gemstones (Zircon, Cubic Zirconia, Spinel).
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Document Layer Separation Apparatus powered by Machine Learning with Cross-Layer Reasoning

By separating documents into different logical layers, this invention enables the ease of automated document processing. Great for businesses that process large volumes of complex documents in daily operation, such as post offices, banks, insurance companies, etc.
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

IndustriNet 5G: Reliable and Deterministic Wireless Communications for New Industrialisation

This combination of a 5G and Time-Sensitive Network addresses the non-deterministic delay and packet loss disadvantages of the common 5G network, making it a safer and more reliable tool for industrial use.
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Microplastic Screening: Monitoring Pollution based on Microscopic Hyperspectral Imaging

By using a portable and affordable hyperspectral imaging device, this invention contributes to fast screening and identification of microplastic particles, which is too small to remove from the water in sewage plants and can enter the human body from food and drinks, causing health problems.
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Multi-mode Fusion Sensor for Enhancing Low-quality Images

The image fusion technology uses multiple-modality sensors to perform image enhancement under challenging low-light, glaring, and foggy environments, providing sensor fusion and enhancement technologies for surveillance, rescue, and autonomous driving applications.
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Neural-network Processing Unit (NPU): High Efficiency Hardware Accelerator for AI Computing

This innovation made significant improvement to the hardware platform used to support AI systems. It enhances the performance of the AI system, creating space for the implementation of more complex algorithms to drive further scientific advancements.
2025
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Revolutionising Emergency Communication: AI-Driven NLP Translation for Immediate Incident Attention in Tetra Radio (Co-developed with MTR Corporation)

Revolutionises communications for immediate incident response, and enchantement to existing systems.
2024
Silver Medal

5G Positioning: Enhanced 5G Network for Challenging Environments

This invention raises the precision level of 5G positioning in challenging environments by around one-third, allowing 5G network to be used even in unstable network conditions, such as factory plants, construction sites, etc.
2024
Silver Medal

5GRescue: Mobile Network for Disaster Response and Remote Countries

A new mobile communications system that integrates portable 5G base stations and network coding backhaul to connect to the cloud through multi-hop wireless links. The system provides connectivity in remote or disaster areas without infrastructure.
2024
Silver Medal

An Automatic Gain Control (AGC) Circuit for Wireless Capsule Endoscopy Receiver

An automatic gain control (AGC) circuit is invented for the On-Off-Shift-Keying (OOK) receiver within the capsule, which could sustain the device at peak performance. This invention can also be widely implemented to other IoT device to be used in remote locations or with radio frequency (RF) interference.
2024
Silver Medal

Emotion Quantification: Emotion Recognition in Speech with Quantified Emotional States

This invention not only recognises speech emotion, but also differentiates speaker’s level of emotion, benefitting customer service sector tremendously.
2024
Silver Medal

Enhanced Thermal Performance in Electronic Vehicles

This invention enhances the thermal performance in various power conversion systems, thus increasing the reliability and durability of high-current and high-power conversion infrastructures, such as electric vehicles, AI computing systems, data centres, smart grids, and many more.
2024
Silver Medal

Infavatar: Voice Matched Infinite Virtual Human Generator

Catering to the increasing market demand for unique virtual avatars, this software is an affordable and efficient solution to create one-of-a-kind, highly customisable avatars with best-matched voices, making brands stand out from the crowd.
2024
Silver Medal

IoT Guard Lite: AI-Powered Light-weight Adaptive IDS/IPS for IoT Devices

A light-weight, highly adaptive system powered by AI that helps to detect and protect edge IoT devices from broader cyber-attacks.
2024
Silver Medal

Portable AI system for GI endoscopy: Diagnosis and Quality Control

Highly efficient portable edge AI system for (gastrointestinal) GI endoscopy and seamless module integration achieving high performance
2024
Silver Medal

Speed Bridge for Emulation Hardware

An accelerator applied to the cloud computing platform to eliminate any data jam and wasted resources from the Emulator, thus improving the efficiency in data transfer between the device under test (DUT) and the high-performance host.
2024
Silver Medal

TEE: Trusted Execution Environment for IoT Device

By providing a hardware trusted environment for software to execute programme codes, this invention helps to reduce the risk of malware attack drastically in IoT devices, such as digital wallets and smart home systems.
2024
Bronze Medal

AIBanner: AI-powered marketing creative generator

Based on product information, advertising channels and target user characteristics, the solution utilises big data and AIGC technologies to automatically generate ad creative contents (text, layout, size, and colour) for different scenarios. It also does continuous optimisation to effectively improve marketing efficiency for the brand.
2024
Bronze Medal

Cursive Handwriting Generator

An AI model that generates natural-like handwritten words, which can help produce large amounts of high-quality data to train handwritten text recognition AI model.
2024
Bronze Medal

Empowering Maintenance Inspectors to Conduct High-Level Inspection Safer and More Efficiently: Autonomous High-Speed Camera Technology for Streamlined Train Rooftop Inspection (Co-developed with MTR Corporation)

Autonomous high-speed camera system enabling safer and more efficient rooftop inspections of trains.
2024
Bronze Medal

Full-dome Scanning LiDAR: High Precision Mid-range 3D Sensing Scanner for Building Information Modelling

This affordable mid-range, high precision LiDar laser scanner is one of the first of its kind, targeted especially for up-and-coming application scenarios, such as Building Information Modelling, Security & Surveillance, and smart logistics.
2024
Bronze Medal

RiskMap: AI-Powered Risk Map for Underground Railway with Private 5G (Co-developed with MTR Corporation)

The risk map system provides a fully automated and low-cost way for managing and monitoring trackside infrastructure and equipment. It alerts the dislodging of the trackside equipment in advance to eliminate the potential risk of rail incidents.
2024
Bronze Medal

Smart 5G Construction: Remote Control Cranes

5G-enabled system for remote control of construction cranes, enhancing safety and productivity on sites.
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

AN-1: Ultra-Stable 400Wh/kg and 900Wh/L Lithium Metal Battery with 3D Nanostructured Anode

AN-1 is the world's first long-cycle Li-metal battery with a flexible 3D scaffold anode, offering 400Wh/kg and 900Wh/L energy densities, 40% more than the latest Li-ion batteries.
2024
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Firm-to-Soft Intelligent Floor Mat for Elderly Fall Injury Prevention

The firm-to-soft intelligent floor mat combines "firm state" for sufficient support and "soft state" for optimal impact absorption to prevent fall injuries.
2024
Gold Medal

Flexible Circuit Board Superior in High-Speed Transmission Performance

The flexible circuit board reduces signal time delay and transmission loss, providing a stable and reliable solution for radar, medical, and aerospace applications.
2024
Gold Medal

Anti-Impact Coating for Ultra Thin Glass (UTG) in Foldable Display

The anti-impact coating is a transparent, organic-inorganic hybrid layer on UTG, offering high hardness, robust bending durability, reliable anti-impact functionality.
2024
Gold Medal

Ultra-Sensitive Nanofiber Membrane for DNA Detection

Ultra-sensitive nanofiber membrane with functionalised reactive groups and surface charges for probe immobilization, enabling detection with trace amount of DNA.
2024
Gold Medal

PAPEL+™: Water-Resistant, Oil-Resistant, Germ-Repellent Coating for Paper Packaging

The waterproof, oilproof, germ-repellent paper coating can enhance food safety, enabling the coated paper packaging as a sustainable and eco-friendly solution to replace disposable plastic tableware.
2024
Gold Medal

Blast Resistant Sprayed Concrete Lining for Cavern Development

Vibration-resistant fiber-reinforced sprayed concrete (FRSC), with polymer-modified cementitious materials to ensure superior performance and durability, can withstand drill and blast actions in caverns and tunnels.
2024
Silver Medal

nAerowarm - Ultralight and Ultrawarm Sustainable Aerogel Fiber

nAerowarm is the world’s first lightest and warmest fiber fabricated from spent agricultural waste, reducing carbon emission. Knit incorporating nAerowarm is 30% lighter and 1.4 times warmer than wool knits.
2024
Silver Medal

Invisible Breathable and Durable Stain-Resistance Nano-Coating for Stone Elements

A nanocoating with its stunning level of self-penetration and tight grasp into stone’s micropores, offering all-round safeguards and 3 times better durability.
2024
Silver Medal

NanoSwab - Bio-Inspired Microstructure for Human Papillomavirus DNA Detection in Male

NanoSwab is the first-in-market, non-invasive male genital sampler specifically developed for painless, efficient, reliable human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA detection.
2024
Silver Medal

Trolley Tracker Solution for Smart Airport

The trolley tracker solution, enabled by a self-powered tracker with a solar/battery hybrid power, offers an over 5-year real time indoor/outdoor tracking of luggage trolleys. With the support of Airport Authority Hong Kong, it has successfully completed a proof-of-concept trial at the Hong Kong International Airport.
2024
Silver Medal

Transparent Sun Nanocurtain

The transparent sun nanocurtain is a low-cost, long-lifetime solar control coating with a shading coefficient of 0.5, and a reflection below 6%.
2024
Silver Medal

Eco-Friendly Material with Accelerated Anaerobic Biodegradability for Smart Cards

An eco-friendly PETG material with accelerated anaerobic biodegradability developed for smart cards with innovative formulation design for anaerobic biodegradability and compatibility.
2024
Silver Medal

Encapsulated ADP for Alcohol Breakdown

Encapsulated alcohol degradation protein (ADP) powder with gastric acid- and ethanol-resistance for alcohol breakdown and hangover elimination.
2024
Silver Medal

100% rPET Bottles for Carbonated Drinks

100% rPET, mechanically strong, food contact safe bottles for carbonated drink are made possible with ASTRI’s bottle-to-bottle upcycling technology.
2024
Silver Medal

Immense Waterproofing Green Bio-Polymer Sealing Wax for Wood Floor

The bio-based seal wax for wood floors provides a low-carbon solution for superior waterproof, low friction, and durable protection, as an alternative to petroleum-based products.
2024
Bronze Medal

MagiCurl – A STEM Kit for Learning Controllable Shape Memory Polymers with Fun

Learn about the science of shape memory materials through MagiCurl. The elastomer filament turns into a loop by stretching and reverses to straight under a designable temperature.
2023
Special Award for Innovation

TrainLite: Small Data AI Learning Platform for Visual Defect Inspection

AI platform that enables manufacturers to develop high-performance defect detection models using limited datasets, supporting automated quality inspection across industries such as electronics, automotive, and textiles to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Gold Medal winner.
2023
Gold medal with the Congratulations of the Jury

Network Coding Enabled 5G IAB Multi-Hop Networks for Smart Cities and Rural Communications

5G Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) solution with network coding technology for reliable multi-hop wireless backhaul, enabling flexible coverage extension in smart cities and rural areas.
2023
Gold medal with the Congratulations of the Jury

5G Robotics: 5G-Enabled Cloud Robot for Transformation to Industry 4.0

5G-connected cloud robotics platform that supports real-time control and collaboration for advanced industrial automation and smart manufacturing transformation.
2023
Gold Medal

OptiSurface: Zero-dead-corner Optimized Path Planning for Surface Inspection

Advanced path planning algorithm ensuring complete surface coverage with no blind spots for efficient robotic or automated inspection applications.
2023
Gold Medal

MetaVision: True 4K2K AR/VR HMD with Sensing

High-resolution 4K2K AR/VR head-mounted display with integrated sensing capabilities for immersive enterprise and industrial applications.
2023
Gold Medal

SafeMark: Optical Security Label for Anti-counterfeit, Data Encryption & Storage

Optical security label technology providing anti-counterfeiting protection, data encryption, and secure storage for product authentication.
2023
Gold Medal

SmartSight: Smart Eye Tracking for Vision Impairment

Intelligent eye-tracking solution designed to assist individuals with vision impairment through enhanced interaction and support features.
2023
Gold Medal

CyberGuard: A System of Machine Learning Based Network Flow Analysis for Cyber-Crime Threat Intelligence

Machine learning-powered network flow analysis system for detecting and generating actionable intelligence against cyber threats.
2023
Gold Medal

RoboCharge AI System: The Smart Charging System for Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR)

AI-driven intelligent charging solution optimised for autonomous mobile robots to improve operational uptime and efficiency.
2023
Silver Medal

SemiconDoctor: Coaxial Line-Scan Confocal 3D Sensing System

High-precision coaxial line-scan confocal 3D sensing system for semiconductor inspection and quality control.
2023
Silver Medal

AquaBrain: Self-Adaptive Optimization Framework for Water Quality Prediction

Self-adaptive AI framework for accurate water quality prediction and monitoring to support environmental management.
2023
Silver Medal

LaserTouch: Ergonomic Laser Finger Controller

Ergonomic laser-based finger controller for intuitive human-machine interaction and gesture control.
2023
Silver Medal

Bright-ENDO: AI Solution and System for Computer-Aided Gastroscopy

AI-powered system for computer-aided diagnosis and quality improvement in gastroscopy procedures.
2023
Silver Medal

PowerGuard: Power Line Communication Interference Reduction and Elimination System

Technology to reduce and eliminate interference in power line communication systems for more reliable data transmission.
2023
Silver Medal

SmartPowerHub: The Energy Efficient Solution for Renewables and Smartgrids

Energy-efficient hub for integrating renewable energy sources (solar/wind) with smart grids, EV charging, and storage systems.
2023
Silver Medal

SafeConnect: The Next Generation Digital Arc-less Charging Solution

Digital arc-less DC charging socket that enhances safety, reliability, and efficiency for various DC power applications.
2023
Silver Medal

Speed and Reliable Pass: High-Speed I/O System for EDA Cloud Computing

High-speed input/output system designed to deliver fast and reliable performance for electronic design automation in cloud environments.
2023
Silver Medal

LongLife: Low Power Voltage Detector For Advanced CMOS Process

Low-power voltage detector optimised for advanced CMOS processes, supporting energy-efficient circuit design.
2023
Silver Medal

Instant5G: Enhancing Future Enterprise Networking Infrastructure with 5G Network

Solution for rapid deployment and enhancement of enterprise networking infrastructure using 5G connectivity.
2023
Silver Medal

EnhancedV2X: An Innovative Road Network System to Improve Road Safety and Traffic Efficiency

Advanced Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) system for smarter road safety and traffic management.
2023
Bronze Medal

TrainLite: Small Data AI Learning Platform for Visual Defect Inspection

AI platform that enables manufacturers to develop high-performance defect detection models using limited datasets, supporting automated quality inspection across industries such as electronics, automotive, and textiles to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Gold Medal winner.
2023
Bronze Medal

SearchWise: Fine-grained Visual Content Search Platform

AI-powered platform for precise, fine-grained search and retrieval of visual content.
2023
Bronze Medal

StressAlert: Short Term Stress and Health Alert Detection

AI-powered system for real-time detection of short-term stress and health alerts through physiological and behavioural signals.
2023
Bronze Medal

SmokeWise: False Alarm Suppressed Smoke Detection with Multi-Dimensional Metric Monitoring

Advanced smoke detection technology that reduces false alarms through multi-dimensional metric analysis and monitoring.
2023
Bronze Medal

SonicSort: Classification of Materials Using Acoustic Sensing

Acoustic sensing solution for efficient, non-contact classification and sorting of materials.
2023
Bronze Medal

FedCredit: Breakthrough Dynamic Differential Privacy to Federated Learning Systems for Credit Scoring

Federated learning framework with dynamic differential privacy for secure and privacy-preserving credit scoring.
2023
Bronze Medal

AutoInsure: The Future of Hassle-Free Car Insurance Claims

AI-driven platform enabling automated, seamless processing of car insurance claims.
2023
Bronze Medal

Blockchain Interoperability Solution: Multi-mode Bridging for Blockchain Systems

Multi-mode bridging technology that enables seamless interoperability across different blockchain networks.
2023
Bronze Medal

AccuBronchus: Easy Airway Sizing from EB-OCT Imaging

Technology for accurate airway sizing using endobronchial optical coherence tomography (EB-OCT) imaging.
2023
Bronze Medal

TargetBoost: A Better AI Framework for Targeted Advertising - Multidimensional Knowledge Transfer

AI framework leveraging multidimensional knowledge transfer to enhance targeted advertising effectiveness.
2023
Bronze Medal

DeadtimeDefender: Smart Wireless Charging with Temperature-Driven Deadtime Control

Intelligent wireless charging system with temperature-driven deadtime control for improved safety and efficiency.
2023
Bronze Medal

Anti-spoofing Smart Lock: Low-powered System that identifies fake faces

Low-power smart lock system with advanced anti-spoofing capabilities for facial recognition.
2023
Bronze Medal

SmartData: Smart Crowdsourcing Data Management with Blockchain

Blockchain-enabled platform for secure and efficient management of crowdsourced data.
2023
Bronze Medal

5GIoTRail: Smart Transportation with 5G

5G-powered IoT solution for enhancing smart transportation systems and rail operations.
2023
Gold Medal

Asphalt Pavement Material for Better Durability

Nano silica is modified and introduced into mixing additives to improve the surface fatigue resistance of asphalt pavement by more than 25% and extend its functional life. The invention reduces material mixing temperature and contributes to energy saving and harmful gas emission reduction.
2023
Gold Medal

Bio-Inspired Silicone Sealant for Wet Surface Adhesion

Inspired by mussel’s secretion adhering to wet rocks, ASTRI has synthesised a unique additive with catechol groups for the development of a one-part, neutral curing silicone sealant with excellent adhesion to hard-to-attach wet surface. The sealant possesses good durability against UV radiation and outdoor exposure.
2023
Gold Medal

Drain-On-Demand Lithium Battery for Ultra-Long-Life IoT Devices

With ASTRI’s Li-battery anode, the lithium battery with highest energy density and highest operating voltage amongst primary batteries is ideal for ultra-long-life IoT devices; it can retain full capacity after 10-year storage and provide high-pulse output when woken up.
2023
Gold Medal

Eco-Friendly Materials for Garment Heat-Transfer Printing

Bio-based elastic polymer with heat resistance, derived chemically from plants, is invented and deployed as eco-friendly materials for garment heat-transfer printing with strong adhesion on garments, replacing conventional petroleum-based materials.
2023
Gold Medal

High Performance Thermal Conductive Silicone Gel

A thermal interface material with more than 50% higher thermal conductivity, faster dispensing rate and low bond line thickness ideal for automated manufacturing of high-power density and miniaturised electronic devices.
2023
Gold Medal

Impact Dissipating Bollard for Traffic Safety

ASTRI’s impact dissipating bollard (IDB), with novel materials and supercomputer designs, stops moving vehicles to protect pedestrians while offering Class A safety for the vehicle occupants. Besides, the shallow foundation of ASTRI's IDB makes it ideal for both road sections and urban regions.
2023
Gold Medal

Plastic Bottles Based on Micro-Foaming Pellet

ASTRI’s closed pore micro-foaming pellet produces lightweight, mechanically strong and food contact safe plastic bottles, can be manufactured by machine-independent process at lower product cost and reduces plastic use by 16-25%.
2023
Gold Medal

Super Conductive Die-Attach Paste for Third Generation Semiconductor Devices

It is an ultra-dense polymer-free nano-silver paste providing five times higher thermal conductivity between die and substrate for 3rd generation high-power electronics.
2023
Silver Medal

Antifouling Germ-Spike Drinking Bottles

An antimicrobial drinking bottle that offers 24/7 protection by killing up to 99.9% bacteria and viruses, and repelling debris without biocide-leach. The bottle is also non-toxic and food contact safe.
2023
Silver Medal

Flexible, Wrinkle Free and High Contrast Screen for Pop-Up Display

A large, fully collapsible, wrinkle free screen with high resolution, sharp colour and wide viewing angle for a portable, pop-up display made possible by a new flexible optical polymer material.
2023
Silver Medal

Intelligent Pillow for Healthy Sleeping

An intelligent pillow with a flexible fabric pressure sensor mapping system, controlled by mobile app, for real-time pressure distribution monitoring, dyASTRIcally adjusts height and shape of the pillow for quality sleeping.
2023
Silver Medal

Micro-Encapsulated Probiotics for Targeted Intestinal Colonization

Gastric-acid-resistant and high-temperature-tolerant micro-encapsulated probiotics that are infusible into food products to enable targeted delivery of probiotics for intestinal colonization with over 90% viability.
2023
Silver Medal

Nano Immersion Coolant for 5G Servers

A nano immersion coolant with high thermal conductivity, high specific heat capacity and heat of vaporization, achieves safe operating temperature for 5G servers while significantly reducing energy consumption in cooling and operation costs.
2023
Silver Medal

Rechargeable Lithium-ion Batteries Delivering Stable GSM Transmissions Under Extreme Temperatures

Novel materials design empowers the Li-ion battery, which is rechargeable for more than 3,000 cycles, to provide ampere-level current output for maintaining stable GSM transmissions at -40°C to 85°C.
2023
Silver Medal

Tunable and Form-Fitting Hydrogel for Medical Applications

Form-fitting hydrogel, with tunable mechanical properties, customizable sizes and shapes, and compatibility with functional additives, is ideal for medical applications such as wound dressings.
2023
Silver Medal

Wear-Resistant Organic Photoconductive Nanocoating for Long-Life Laser Printer Drum

An organic photoconductor nanocoating with low-friction polymer resin and anti-scratch nanocages to achieve superior wear resistance and high optical transmission, extending the life of laser printer drum by 30%.
2023
Bronze Medal

Antimicrobial Aerosol for Vehicle Cabin’s Comprehensive Disinfection System

A vapourised and natural and safe solution to eliminate viruses, bacteria and mold for an automated vehicle disinfection system, compatible with vehicle ventilation system and common nebulisers, providing at least 14-day protection with just 5-min operation with nebulisers.
2023
Bronze Medal

Hybrid MiC with Lightweight Concrete-Steel Modules for High-Rise Buildings

Hybrid Modular Integrated Construction that consists of steel frame and lightweight foamed concrete structural wall to withstand shear force for high-rise buildings. The module is endowed with excellent durability, fire resistance and thermal insulation, as well as a weight reduction by 30 to 40%.
2023
Bronze Medal

Self-Healing Concrete with Recycled Plastic Fibers

Concrete fabricated with modified recycled plastic fibers that can control the crack width for self-healing, boosting productivity with less rebar, increasing structure lifespan while providing a low carbon solution for concrete manufacturing.
2022
Gold Medal

Making future cities and campuses smarter and more efficient with 5G

Solutions designed to improve connectivity, operational efficiency, and IoT capabilities within urban landscapes and educational institutions.
2022
Gold Medal

Novel underwater wireless power charging solution against climate change

Green-tech infrastructure designed to support subsea equipment and environmental monitoring without invasive or polluting physical connections.
2022
Silver Medal

The generation of knowledgeable chatbot

AI chatbot framework designed to generate knowledgeable, context-aware responses.
2022
Silver Medal

Mass real-time data stream processing for digital marketing

High-performance platform for processing large-scale real-time data streams in digital marketing applications.
2022
Silver Medal

Building blocks for future digitization of paper documents

Core technologies and frameworks supporting efficient digitisation and processing of paper documents.
2022
Silver Medal

Evolution of cross-boundary compliance ecosystems in pandemics

Solutions for building adaptive cross-boundary compliance systems during pandemic situations.
2022
Silver Medal

Enhancing future smart mobility infrastructure with low latency, high precision and reliable C-V2X system

Advanced Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology delivering low-latency, high-precision communications for smart mobility.
2022
Silver Medal

Low carbon emission design optimization for AI computing

Optimisation framework for reducing carbon emissions in AI computing infrastructure and operations.
2022
Silver Medal

Give batteries a second life

Technology and processes enabling reuse and repurposing of batteries for extended lifecycle and sustainability.
2022
Silver Medal

Rapid charging technology for reducing downtime and increasing productivity for mobile robotics

Fast-charging solutions designed to minimise downtime and boost productivity of mobile robots.
2022
Silver Medal

Low-cost AI night vision technology for life saving

Affordable AI-enhanced night vision system for critical life-saving applications.
2022
Silver Medal

Popularizing preventive eye retina checking solution

Accessible solution for preventive retinal screening and eye health monitoring.
2022
Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury

Separator-Free Battery for Improved Safety and Performance

A separator-free lithium ion battery with a breakthrough ultrathin nanofiber conformal coating on the electrode surface to replace conventional polyolefin-based separator, improving battery safety and performance in terms of energy density, cycle and rate.
2022
Gold Medal

Nanotechnology-Driven Recycled Rubber for Asphalt Pavement with Artificial Intelligence

The nanotechnology-driven recycled rubber together with AI allows recycling of more waste rubber but consumes less energy in paving process, and also enhances pavement performance while achieving accurate performance prediction of road by AI.
2022
Gold Medal

Thermal Conductive and EMI Shielding Dual Functional Thermal Pad

A dual functional graphite pad with high thermal conductivity and electromagnetic (EM) wave absorbing/reflection function to resolve the thermal issue of high power density chipset and tackle the signal interference issues by EM wave’s transmission in the 5G high frequency bands.
2022
Gold Medal

Flexible, Transparent, and Super-Strong NAMI nCoating for Foldable Electronics Display

This transparent cover layer has glass-like hardness (9H) and plastic-like flexibility (foldable 500k times), suitable for use in different areas including foldable touch screen, anti-smudge film, high hardness ink and anti-scratch wood.
2022
Gold Medal

Safe and Energy-Dense Lithium-Metal Battery with In-situ Polymerized Solid Electrolyte

Scalable Ah level lithium metal battery with 350Wh/kg energy density, long cycle life and improved safety enabled by in-situ polymerized polymer-ceramic composite solid state electrolyte and 4.5V cathode.
2022
Gold Medal

Spinnable Composite Nano Fiber Material for Fully Biodegradable ASTM F2100 Level 3 Surgical Mask

Innovative biodegradable hybrid composite material that has high solubility in non-toxic solvent for nanofiber fabrication, which is used to produce a fully biodegradable ASTM F2100 Level 3 surgical mask to reduce plastic pollution.
2022
Gold Medal

Germ Repellent Silicone Rubber (GRSR) for Microbiome-friendly, Anti-fouling Baby Products

A toxin-free silicone having bio-safety and long-lasting germ-repellent efficacy of over 99% with anti-fouling function well maintained even after 270 washing cycles. In contrast to conventional leachable germ-killing biocides, this novel material neither causes antimicrobial resistance nor disturbs microbiome balance by killing beneficial microorganisms.
2022
Silver Medal

Self-Foaming Coating System for Superior Glass Facade Protection

A self-foaming coating system that provides all-round temporary protection for glass building materials with excellent waterproof and fire resistance, easily and wholly removable after 18 months’ application to reduce replacement cost of damaged glass facades during construction.
2022
Silver Medal

Human-Centric Lighting with Chip-On-Board (COB) Design

A LED device with advanced algorithm and user-friendly mobile control to improve quality of life by reinforcing circadian rhythm via adjustable lighting effects with proper lighting spectra and intensity to control melatonin secretion safely.
2022
Silver Medal

Rate-Responsive Smart Bandage for Sport Injury Prevention

The smart bandage intelligently switches between elastic and non-elastic modes to ensure action dexterity in normal activities and prevent injuries in high-speed joints twisting, having excellent sport injury prevention performance while maintaining flexibility of joints.
2022
Silver Medal

Sustainable Anti-pilling Nano-Coating for Wool Garment

A green and high performance nano-coating of wool garment for effective anti-pilling, with highest grade (5) and minimal loss of fibers against wear and laundry, maintaining wool garments’ softness and colourfastness for a longer product lifetime.
2022
Silver Medal

NAMI S2PONGE Lifetime Virus and Bacteria Guard

A green and natural washing agent protecting garments against COVID-19, viruses, bacteria, odor and laundry for the entire product lifetime. It shows proven inactivation of over 99.9% to virus causing COVID-19 after home laundry for at least 30 cycles. This treatment can be conveniently applied onto finished textiles and garments.
2022
Silver Medal

Hard Amorphous Metal Coating to Protect and Enhance Sharpness of Coffee Bean Grinding Blade

The amorphous metal coating on stainless steel is the industry's first application for coffee grinding, which drastically increases the grinding blade's hardness, sharpness and toughness for prolonged product service life and finer coffee powder for silkier and robust coffee with original taste.
2022
Silver Medal

Fluorine Free Hydrophobic/Oleophobic Nano-Shield Coating for Eco-Friendly Paper Based Food Packaging

The nano-shield coating, substituting conventional non-biodegradable and toxic PFAS, contains optimised composition of modified biodegradable polymer and nanoparticles, which are well dispersed and interact with each other to form cross-linking bonding for excellent water and oil repellency for paper food packaging.
2022
Silver Medal

Green Economical Additive to Achieve Biodegradation of Common Plastics Including Recycled Materials

An additive with novel biomaterial formulation that can be incorporated into common plastics in small concentration (1-5 wt%) to attract effective microbes for accelerated biodegradation. The biodegradable material using this additive is the only kind that is compatible with existing recycling streams without affecting the quality of recycled plastics.
2022
Silver Medal

Probiotics Revitalizing System (PRS) for Skin Microbiome Balance

Skincare products infused with PRS enable the restoration of skin microbiome balance with live and colonizable probiotics, which are concealed by multi-layered nano-shells to remain dormant and revitalised on skin upon contact with a bioactive releasing medium, being consumer-friendly with excellent efficacy for daily skincare routine.
2022
Silver Medal

Germ-Spike Paper Packaging with Antiviral and Antibacterial Features

Rapid repair mortar materials consisting steel fibers and uniquely formulated mortar materials to simplify and speed up the repair process of concrete spalling with serious steel corrosion by eliminating additional rebar lapping and reducing concrete removing.
2025
Gold Award

Hybrid-Powered Asset Tracker for Smart Airport

ASTRI's self-powered asset tracker enables real-time location monitoring for trolleys and dollies. Supported by Hong Kong Airport Authority, it seamlessly switches between Bluetooth indoors and GPS outdoors for precise tracking. With long-lasting batteries and solar energy harvesting, its lifespan extends beyond five years, ensuring reliable and sustainable asset management.
2025
Gold Award

NuHip: Body-fitting, Comfortable Hip Protector for Bone Fracture Prevention

Hip fractures are the most severe fall-related injury in the elderly. NuHip is the world’s first hip protector for shower use, which contains a bio-inspired two-phase network and shape-memory materials, delivering adaptive, universal fit and superior impact protection—empowering safer, more comfortable, and independent living foraging individuals.
2025
Gold Award

Transparent Sun Nanocurtain

The first-and-only long-lasting, low-cost, and easy-to-apply coating offers outstanding energy-saving performance for building windows of various shapes, particularly those in old buildings. This innovative coating blocks 50% of solar energy while enabling over 60% visible light transmission and less than 6% reflection, the top leading performance in the world.
2025
Gold Award

Adopting NAMI-SUPERTHERM Immersion Coolant for AI Servers and High Performance Computers

NAMI-SUPERTHERM coolants offer superior thermal management for servers and HPC systems. With advanced molecular design, they enhance heat transfer performance. They are non-toxic and safe, featuring a low global warming potential (GWP) to minimise environmental impact. Their high material compatibility and stability ensure reliable system uptime.
2025
Silver Award with Special Award from Taiwan Invention Association

PAPEL+™: Water-Resistant, Oil-Resistant, Germ-Repellent Coating for Paper Packaging

PAPEL+™ is a first-in-market, plastic-free varnish designed for food paper packaging, offering exceptional water and oil resistance, along with germ repellency. It meets FDA food-contact safety standards, prevents bacterial contamination, and is certified 100% repulpable. PAPEL+™ revolutionises traditional plastic-lined paper packaging, providing a safe and sustainable alternative in the industry.
2025
Silver Award

AN-1: Ultra-Stable 400Wh/kg and 900Wh/L Ah-level Lithium Metal Battery (LMB) with 3D Nano-scaffold Anode

The AN-1 5Ah LMB is the world's first long-cycle lithium metal battery with a flexible 3D nano-scaffold anode, offering >400Wh/kg and >900Wh/L energy density, 40% more than the latest lithium-ion batteries. It maintains stable cycling for >500 cycles under 1C and passes the 145°C hot box safety test, making it ideal for portable electronics.
2025
Silver Award

Somorrow™ So! Salmon: 3D-printed Premium Plant-Based Salmon Sashimi

Somorrow™ revolutionises the food industry by offering a sustainable sashimi-grade plant-based salmon with advanced 3D printing and nanotechnology. Unlike other market available vegan alternatives that lack authenticity and require cooking, Somorrow™ nanostructured bigel system replicates the texture and taste of raw fish while enhancing nutrition and conserving the marine ecosystem.
2024
Innovation Awards Honoree

Wrinkleless TriClarity nScreen

ASTRI's Wrinkleless TriClarity nScreen is a wrinkle-free, flexible, and high-contrast display that makes the world's only collapsible, large-sise, and portable display/TV possible. The display/TV with this screen shows the 24-inch diagonal image with 2K high resolution that seamlessly expands and folds away in just seconds. The whole display/TV can be collapsed down to the sise and weight of a book.
2023
Innovation Awards Honoree

365Pillow for Quality Sleeping

ASTRI’s 365Pillow for Quality Sleeping, integrated with textile sensor mat for pressure monitoring and embedded actuator for real time adjustment, can capture the pressure in neck and head areas, and automatically adjust the pillow height based on real time pressure distribution. User can also achieve comfortable sleeping posture and healthy sleeping experience with a program controlled by a mobile app.
2022
Innovation Awards Honoree

Separator-free Lithium-Ion Battery

ASTRI‘s Separator-free Lithium-Ion Battery is developed with a breakthrough nanofiber conformal coating on the electrode surface to replace conventional polyolefin separator. The ultrathin and thermally stable nanofiber coating can provide the battery with higher energy density. The high porosity, excellent electrolyte wettability and strong adhesion to electrode can provide robust cycle and rate performances, while the high abundance of nano-pores can achieve ultra-low self-discharge rate, leading the market.
2021
Innovation Awards Honoree

Barrier-FREE QD Film - A Color Conversion Film for Display

Designed for high quality display for consumer electronics ASTRI’s Barrier-FREE Quantum Dots (BFQDs) film can boost the colour space to 85% under Rec.2020 standard. By incorporating ASTRI’s nanoparticles encapsulation technology on each light emitting QD nanocrystal, BFQDs film can eliminate the use of high cost barrier films as the protective layer, reducing the BOM cost but showing comparable operating lifetime with that of conventional QD colour conversion film in the market.
2021
Innovation Awards Honoree

HSG-Graphite Pad - A Highly Thermal Conductive Pad

Designed for superior thermal management system for advanced electronics, HSG thermal conductive pad is the next generation thermal interface material that provides 2-4 folds increase in thermal conductivity and lowered contact resistance by half, with outstanding EMI shielding performance and dielectric withstand options, leading other products in the market.
2020
Innovation Awards Honoree

Smart Logistic Tracker with Extreme Temperature Battery

It is a long-lasting smart IoT tracker integrated with temperature sensors, accelerometers, GPS, GSM, and active RFID. The tracker is powered by ASTRI's lithium-ion batteries with novel carbon anode materials and newly formulated electrolyte that can pulse discharge at high current up to 5A under -40°C to 85°C and function for over 5 years.
2020
Innovation Awards Honoree

Carbon Metal Composites Heatsink and Baseplate

By using ASTRI's series of new carbon-metal composite, the developed heatsink and baseplate can achieve a high thermal conductivity of up to 700W/mK but at least 3 times lighter than conventional copper products (380W/mK), suitable for high performing chips, next-generation power devices, etc.
2019
Innovation Awards Honoree

Printed Battery with High Power Output for IoT Application

This printed thin and flexible primary battery is tailored for high power disposable devices, such as sensors and medical electronics. It is customizable in sise, shape, and voltage output. The technology primes for high power output (3C pulse discharge), and is suitable for low-cost large scale printing fabrication for applications in wireless tracking tag, smart card, micro-current cosmetic patch, and medical patch, etc.
2018
Innovation Awards Honoree

Self-powered Flexible PCB for IoT Electronics

This FPCB is produced by printing a solid-state rechargeable lithium battery directly on the board itself, resulting in a self-powered all-in-one component for electronics. This is the first time such an approach is adopted for electronic components. The FPCB is self-powered without the need for an external power source, and can be applied in IoT electronics, such as smart credit card, smart medical patch, etc.
2018
Innovation Awards Honoree

Printed Sensor and Array for Pressure Monitoring

This thin, lightweight printed pressure sensor with high flexibility and low cost can be customised for various applications and products. It is specially designed for flexible and wearable devices, and ready for integrating to IoT-related apps. This all screen printed pressure sensor array has a wide application on different forms of products, including healthcare products like mattress and podiatry device, sportswear with insole embedded with pressure sensor, fitness gears such as boxing gloves, educational products including paper piano and interactive children’s book, as well as vehicular and pedestrian traffic counting device.
2018
Innovation Awards Honoree

Compact and Fast Charge Battery for Hearing Aid Devices

This compact but high-capacity battery which is customised for hearing aids not only enables a sise reduction of the device, but also provides energy for up to 9 hours' operation time, and offers 15 mins' fast charging as well as wireless charging, supporting the emergence of revolutionary hearing aids and other wearable devices.
2024
Banking Tech of the Year's Winner

Smart Entity Extraction Platform for Automated Form and Document Processing

2023
Data Initiative of the Year's Winner

Dynamic differential privacy to federated learning Systems

2025
Gold Medal

Zero-Downtime Energy Storage

2025
Silver Medal

Traffic Lens

2025
Silver Medal

SmartVision Scanner

2025
Silver Medal

SmartDoc QA

2024
Gold Medal

5G Cloud Robotics with Precise Positioning and Supercomputing Power for Smart Manufacturing

2024
Gold Medal

The Co-electroplating Sn-Bi Alloy Solder for 3D-IC Low Temperature Bonding

2024
Gold Medal

Automatic Diamond Colour Grading

2024
Bronze Medal

System and Method for AI Banner Generation Combining Design Intelligence and Data Intelligence

2023
1st Prize of Geneva Inventions Award

Smart Contactless Robot Charging (SCRC): A High-Efficiency & Compact Wireless Charging Platform for Industrial Robotics

2023
The Gold Medal with the Congratulations of Jury

Smart Contactless Robot Charging (SCRC): A High-Efficiency & Compact Wireless Charging Platform for Industrial Robotics

2023
Gold Medal

Metalens-enabled Infrared Imaging System and the Design Automation Tool

2023
Gold Medal

5G Multi-Hop Backhaul for Smart Cities and Rural Communications

2023
Silver Medal

Full-dome laser scanner

2023
Silver Medal

Optical Security Label for Anti-counterfeit, Data Encryption & Storage

2023
Silver Medal

Advanced Lighting System for Large-scale Green Architecture Applications

2023
Silver Medal

5G Time-Sensitive Communications for New Industrialisation

2023
Silver Medal

Method and Apparatus for Virtual Avatar Generation

2023
Silver Medal

Image Processing Method for Multi-Frequency Ultrasound Probe Device

2023
Gold Award

Eco-permeable Material with Recycled Rubber Tyre Crumb and Geopolymer (Co-developed with Allied Success Technology Development Ltd)

2025
Gold Award

【Smart Living Award – Smart Healthcare】CHIMP: An all-in-One Inpatient Monitoring System with ECG Chest Patch

Co-developed with the Hospital Authority and Tin Shui Wai Hospital, this wearable device collects real-time vital data from hospitalised patients, enhancing care efficiency and patient safety. It won the Gold Award in the Smart Living (Smart Healthcare) category at the Hong Kong ICT Awards 2025.
2024
Bronze Award

【Smart Mobility Award – Smart Transport】Revolutionizing Emergency Communication: AI-Driven NLP Transcription for Immediate Incident Attention in Tetra Radio

2024
Bronze Award

【Smart Living Award – Smart Healthcare】Wireless SoC for High-Speed Data Transmission within the Human Body

2024
Certificate of Merit

【Smart Living Award – Smart Healthcare】Portable AI System for GI Endoscopy: Diagnosis and Quality Control

2024
Certificate of Merit

【FinTech Award – Emerging Solutions: Virtual Assets, Payment, Blockchain and AI applications】Leading the Credit Revolution: Privacy-Focused Federated Learning Platform for Groundbreaking Credit Scoring

2023
Silver Award

【FinTech (Regulatory Technology and Risk Management) Award】HK HoneyNet for Actionable Threat Intelligence

2023
Bronze Award

【Smart Business (Solution for Business and Public Sector Enterprise) Award】Light-weight Adaptive IoT Intrusion Detection and Prevention System (IDS/IPS) enabled by AI

2022
Silver Award

【Smart Business (Emerging Technologies) Award】4K2K AR/VR Compatible Head-Mounted Display (HMD)

2023-24
Category Award

【Equipment and Machinery Design】Coaxial Confocal 3D Sensing for 3D Semiconductor Wafer Inspection

2023-24
Certificate of Merit

【Equipment and Machinery Design】A Sustainable Large-scale DC Lighting System for Green Architecture Applications

2025
Merit

【Best AI Transformation Solution】Intent-Driven and AI agent-based Smart Orchestration System

2024
Silver Award

【Best AI Application Award】Revolutionizing Emergency Communication: AI-Driven NLP Translation for Immediate Incident Attention in Tetra Radio

2024
Silver Award

【Best 5G Application Award】5G Cloud Robotics with Precise Positioning for Intelligent Manufacturing

2024
Silver Award

【Best Green ICT Award】3rd Generation Semiconductor Based Integrated Power Supply Modules for Smart City Applications

2024
Bronze Award

【Best Cloud Solution Award】Revolutionizing Document Processing: Machine Learning-Powered Document Layer Separation Apparatus with Cross-Layer Reasoning

2023
Silver Award

【Best Cloud Solution】Scalable Hong Kong HoneyNet for Actionable Threat Intelligence

2023
Bronze Award

【Best 5G Application】ASTRI’s 5G C-V2X System enhances Public Vehicle Safety and Efficiency

2026
Merit Award

AI Regwatch: Smart Compliance Navigator for Regulatory Clarity

AI Regwatch leverages advanced AI and natural language processing to revolutionise regulatory compliance. By automating the monitoring, assessment, and implementation of regulatory updates in real time, it empowers organisations to act proactively, minimise compliance costs, and turn regulatory changes into strategic opportunities.
2026
Merit Award

CAPE: Copyright-Aware Image Generation

CAPE is a framework enhances existing image generators, ensuring copyright compliance while preserving creative intent and visual fidelity. It operates efficiently without retraining, enabling ethical, high-quality outputs with low computational cost
2025
Merit Award

Streamlining Loan Processing: AI-Driven Automated Document Review to Enhance Speed and Reduce Risk

2024
Excellence Award – Tech Company of the Year (Large Corporate) – Innovative Technology Application

Smart Entity Extraction Platform for Automated Form and Document Processing

2023
Excellence Award – Tech Company of the Year (Large Corporate) – Innovative Technology Application

HoneyNet for Actionable Threat Intelligence

2023
Excellence Award – Tech Company of the Year (Large Corporate) – Innovative Technology Application

Dynamic differential privacy to Federated Learning Systems

2025-26
GBA Talent Attraction Campaign Award

GBA Talent Attraction Campaign Award

2024-25
Experiential Hiring Experience Award

Experiential Hiring Experience Award

2024-25
HR Management Award

HR Management Award

2022-23
Grand Award of RECRUITMENT

Attraction Campaign Award

Good Employer Charter 2024

The Organisation has to make a pledge to be an employee-oriented employer, and complete the enrolment form in accordance with their implemented good human resource management practices.