据新华社报道，8月17日发表在新一期美国《科学进展》杂志上的研究显示，中国香港城市大学高等研究院资深院士吕坚教授研究组首次实现陶瓷4D列印。这种新技术有望应用于太空探索、电子产品和航空发动机制造等领域。

A research team at City University of Hong Kong has achieved a ground-breaking advancement in materials research by successfully developing the world's first-ever 4D printing for ceramics, which are mechanically robust and can have complex shapes. This could turn a new page in the structural application of ceramics. The team was led by IAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu who is a distinguished materials scientist with research interests ranging from fabricating nanomaterials and advanced structural materials to the computational simulation of surface engineering.

Researchers at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have accomplished an innovative advancement in materials research by successfully creating the world's first-ever 4D printing for ceramics, which are mechanically strong and can have multifaceted shapes. This could unveil a new chapter in the structural application of ceramics. The team was led by IAS Senior Fellow Professor Jian Lu who is a distinguished materials scientist with research interests ranging from fabricating nanomaterials and advanced structural materials to the computational simulation of surface engineering.

Professor Herbert Gleiter, IAS Senior Fellow, has been honored the 2018 Czochralski Award from the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS). The award recognizes the achievements of Professor Gleiter in the field of Advanced Materials Science.

香港城市大学（城大）高等研究院于7月举办了「基因、细胞及数学扩展研讨会」，广邀多位来自不同领域的知名学者到城大，就数学、电脑科学、细胞生物学、人类蛋白质体学和人类遗传学跨学科研究进行为期一个月的深入交流。

Professor Tobin J. Marks, IAS Senior Fellow, has been elected to the Italian Academy of Sciences, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Founded in 1603, its illustrious members include Galileo Galilei, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Werner Heisenberg, and others, and, more recently, American chemists, NU alumnus Harry Gray of Caltech as well as Dick Zare of Stanford.

香港城市大学（城大）于6月24日至29日举行第14届国际纳米结构材料会议，由杰出科学家与学者讨论纳米材料的未来趋势和最新发展，期间高等研究院举行材料峰会。

Since its founding in 2015, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), based at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), has offered academics and students an innovative, intellectual platform to encourage and foster groundbreaking science research.

南韩成均馆大学化学工程学院朴南圭教授于6月11日在香港城市大学主持最新一场高等研究院杰出讲座系列，题为「铅卤钙钛矿：光伏及其他」。朴教授指其团队研发了一个通用方法和界面纳米工程，用作消除迟滞现象。迟滞现象是指物件受力后延后出现反应。他指表面钝化剂和低维中间层显著提升稳定性，同时大大减少迟滞情况。

香港城市大学（城大）副校长（研究及科技）兼研究生院院长、城大高等研究院资深院士、金属结构材料科学家吕坚教授，于5月30日荣获中国工程院颁发第十二届光华工程科技奖。光华工程科技奖被视为中国工程科技领域的最高奖项，设有「光华工程科技成就奖」和「光华工程科技奖」两个奖项。吕教授说︰「能够获颁这个国内工程科技界的顶级奖项，我深感荣幸。」