Top 5 innovations in building materials
CNBC talking to Dr. Sascha Peters
CNBC 2013

In an interview with CNBC, Dr. Sascha Peters provides information about a few years and smart building materials of the future and shows the TOP 5, which lie between mushroom-related foams, translucent wood and retroreflective concrete.
BISYKA synthetic rubber
13 April 2026
Fraunhofer researchers have succeeded in transferring the mechanical quality of…
Natural fiber reinforced car seat
22 October 2023
The focus of the project "Design for Recycling" is a seat shell that is made…
Liquid Metal Dispensing
28 August 2025
By embedding conductive liquid metals in stretchable textiles and soft…
Rusted Leather
16 March 2026
Munich based high end footwear brand nat-2 and designer Talia Luvaton present a…
IGNIS – Light from waste heat energy
12 August 2020
The availability of affordable, independent and, above all, clean electrical…
Brake disc with reduced fine dust
21 April 2021
Fine dust endangers our health. One of the main sources is traffic, especially…
Exoskeleton assists tire changes
22 March 2026
German Bionic has developed an AI-powered exoskeleton called EXIA for…
Bolometer chips for precise power measurement in fusion reactors
11 April 2025
At Fraunhofer IMM, a so-called bolometer chip was developed for precise power…
Xarvio – Digital Farming
8 January 2021
BASF Digital Farming GmbH has received the renowned Crop Science Award for the…








