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The young Ceramists Additive Manufacturing Forum yCAM 2026 took place at Jožef Stefan Institute, from 11th to 13th of May 2026. During yCAM, 3DCERAM Award for Best Speaker was won by Dr. Ipeknaz Özden Moser from Department for Nanostructured Materials (K7), for her talk on "Ceramic additive manufacturing by micron sized droplet jetting of thermoplastic feedstocks". 3DCERAM Award for Best Poster was won by Pia Popovič, also from Department for Nanostructured Materials (K7), for her poster on "Thermoplastic material jetting of paraffin-wax-based alumina suspensions". With these awards, they received the chance to present their work at the Ceramic AM Summit which will be held from 29th of June to 1st of July in Freiburg, Germany, as well as registration and travel grants for this event. Congratulations to both, as well as their supervisors Assoc. Prof. Dr. Andraž Kocjan and Dr. Aljaž Iveković.

Dr. Amirhossein Lame Jouybari and prof. dr. Leon Cizelj from Jožef Stefan Institute published the research article “Prospect of quantum computing on Enhanced Strain Gradient Crystal Plasticity theory” in International Journal of Plasticity, which is a highly renowned international journal in the field of plastic deformation, damage and fracture behaviour of solids. For the first time, the authors introduce a novel quantum computing algorithm based on the quantum Fourier transform (QFT) to solve the balance equations from the field of solid mechanics. It is demonstrated that the proposed QFT-method achieves a poly-logarithmic computational speedup, offering significant advantages for high resolution simulations of irradiated materials, where both numerical accuracy and computational efficiency are critical for reliable structural integrity assessments in nuclear power plant applications. In addition, the authors also presented a new ESGCP theory to describe crystal plasticity and grain size effects.

Dr. Evelin Gruden and Assoc. Prof. Gašper Tavčar from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and Technology have published a review article in the prestigious journal Coordination Chemistry Reviews . In the article, Gruden and Tavčar provide an overview of the chemistry of NHC-stabilized fluoride compounds that have been developed over the past 30 years, from the discovery of NHC carbenes to the present day. Traditionally, the chemistry of metal and non-metal fluorides has developed separately and much more slowly than other halides due to the poor solubility of fluorides and the demanding conditions for handling them. With the development of new synthesis techniques, characterization methods, and the discovery of the activity of these compounds, fluoride chemistry is becoming an increasingly important field of research. The article covers an overview of various synthesis methods for the preparation of compounds with NHC-M-F fragments, their structural features and reactivity, providing a unified reference framework for designing new NHC-stabilized fluoride compounds.

Shih-Kai Chou, Jernej Hribar, Vid Hanžel, Mihael Mohorčič and Carolina Fortuna from the Department of Communication Systems of the Jožef Stefan Institute published a paper entitled The energy cost of artificial intelligence lifecycle in communication networks in the prestigious IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. In the paper, they analyzed the complexity of data collection and manipulation in individual components of an information-communication system and derived overall and per‑bit energy consumption. They proposed a new metric, the energy cost of AI lifecycle (eCAL), which allows for the quantification of the total energy consumption from development to deployment and utilization of machine learning models providing artificial intelligence in communication networks. The authors are the first to combine the previously separate monitoring of energy consumption in communication, computing infrastructure and the development and use of machine learning models, which forms the baseline for sustainable introduction of intelligent functionalities into smart infrastructure systems.