據新華社報道，8月17日發表在新一期美國《科學進展》雜誌上的研究顯示，中國香港城市大學高等研究院資深院士呂堅教授研究組首次實現陶瓷4D列印。這種新技術有望應用於太空探索、電子產品和航空發動機製造等領域。

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.

香港城市大學（城大）高等研究院於7月舉辦了「基因、細胞及數學擴展研討會」，廣邀多位來自不同領域的知名學者到城大，就數學、電腦科學、細胞生物學、人類蛋白質體學和人類遺傳學跨學科研究進行為期一個月的深入交流。

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.

香港城市大學（城大）於6月24日至29日舉行第14屆國際納米結構材料會議，由傑出科學家與學者討論納米材料的未來趨勢和最新發展，期間高等研究院舉行材料峰會。

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.

南韓成均館大學化學工程學院朴南圭教授於6月11日在香港城市大學主持最新一場高等研究院傑出講座系列，題為「鉛鹵鈣鈦礦：光伏及其他」。朴教授指其團隊研發了一個通用方法和界面納米工程，用作消除遲滯現象。遲滯現象是指物件受力後延後出現反應。他指表面鈍化劑和低維中間層顯著提升穩定性，同時大大減少遲滯情況。