Materials

The environmentally-friendly paint uses nanotechnology to detect movement in large structures, and could shape the future of safety monitoring.

A new method of creating stretchable electronics made of carbon nanotubes could contribute to the large scale production of the material for use in the next generation of elastic electronic devices.

A number of leading Asian companies in the chemical and electronics sectors will test SmartKem's innovative organic semiconductor inks for use in printable electronics applications in product such as state-of-the-art eReaders, Tablet PC's, Smartphones and TV's.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge lead by Prof. Andrea Ferrari have recently demonstrated a technique for producing inkjet-printable inks based predominantly on small (<1um) single-layer graphene flakes.

The Cornell Center for Materials Research JumpStart program is designed to assist New York State small businesses develop and improve their products through university collaborations; the ultimate goal being revenue growth and job creation.

Tanaka Kikinzoku Kogyo K.K. (a company of Tanaka Precious Metals) has succeeded in the joint development of ruthenium material able to form a film up to six times the normal depth for capacitor electrodes used in semiconductor memory DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) with Professor Seiji Ogo of the Graduate School of Engineering Department of Applied Chemistry at Kyushu University.

Reactive silver ink is airbrushed onto a thin, stretchy plastic film to make a flexible silver electrode.

Research from Rice University and the University of California at Berkeley may give science and industry a new way to manipulate graphene, the wonder material expected to play a role in advanced electronic, mechanical and thermal applications.

In a significant formulation breakthrough, Henkel Electronic Materials announces that it has developed a new electrically conductive adhesive (ECA) compatible with lower-cost, tin-terminated components to enable more cost-effective assembly processes.

New research by the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) could enable development of new thread-like and cloth-like superconducting materials called Flexible, lightweight superconductors.

New mid phos electroless nickel for printed circuits

Vorbeck Materials Corp. announced that it has completed a fully subscribed series 3 financing.

Peratech is offering a novel and interesting ink that can change its resistance by as much as 16 orders of magnitude when pressed with a finger!

Molybdenite, a new and very promising material, can surpass the physical limits of silicon. EPFL scientists have proven this by making the first molybdenite microchip, with smaller and more energy efficient transistors.

The wonder material of modern science now promises all-printed, flexible and transparent graphene devices on more or less any surface Inkjet technology.

Metalonix, Inc., a ground-breaking provider of functional metallic inks, is pleased to announce its official corporate name has changed to Liquid X Printed Metals, Inc. ("Liquid X"). Liquid X spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2010 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Technology never sleeps, and the five years that have passed since the previous edition of Flexible Circuit Technology was released have provided a substantial amount of new material for the all-new fourth edition of Flexible Circuit Technology, edited by 40-year electronics interconnection industry veteran Joseph Fjelstad and coauthored with some the world's top interconnection technologists.

Individual molecules have been used to create electrical components like resistors, transistors and diodes that mimic the properties of familiar semiconductors. But according to Nongjian (NJ) Tao, a researcher at the Biodesign Institute at ASU, unique properties inherent in single molecules also may allow clever designers to produce novel devices whose behavior falls outside the performance observed in conventional electronics.

Rice researchers' two-step technique makes graphene suitable for organic chemistry

A resistive touch screen panel made with a Kodak transparent conductive film and featuring completely invisible conductive patterns was demonstrated for the first time today at the Printed Electronics USA 2011 Show.

Highest conductivity paste available today enables more cost-effective manufacturing

Paul Yager, chair of the Bioengineering Department at the University of Washington, leads several subcontractors in two major grants totaling up to $26 million pushing the envelope on paper-based diagnostics.

A new technique developed by Stanford researchers advances commercial potential of semiconducting carbon nanotubes for printable circuits, bendable display screens, stretchable electronics and solar technology.

ASU is already a leader in developing flexible electronics through its Flexible Display Center, created in 2004 through a cooperative agreement with the United States Army Research Laboratory.

The phenomenal and cultural success of Apple and Steve Jobs' vision was the result of technology and artistry coming together to change the way we interact with our world. IDTechEx has long advocated the need for more companies to not only continue to develop breakthrough PE technology but to design and integrate printed electronics into the soul of the product rather than just supplying materials or components.

Smarter, more functional clothing incorporating electronics may be possible in the near future, according to a study co-authored by Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza

The first commercial application of grapheme-based inks will appear in major retail stores in the US in Q1/2012 according to US companies Vorbeck Materials Corp. and MWV Packaging.

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a nonprofit research center has developed a highly flexible electronic paper that's both re-writable and re-usable, and doesn't require electricity to retain the screen image. Licensing talks are already underway with ChangChun Plastics who plan to begin pilot production of a product next year.

Researchers of the Opto-electronic Materials section of TU Delft and Toyota Europe have demonstrated that several mobile electrons can be produced by the absorption of a single light particle in films of coupled quantum dots.

The development of low power electronics and devices for integration into the type of active lifestyles that are characteristic of modern humans is a vibrant area of research. Whether the electronics are wearable, epidermal, edible or even implantable, developments are taking place worldwide with new concepts, designs and prototypes that could change everyday life with minimal intrusiveness.

Scientists develop new nanomaterial that steers current in multiple dimensions.

UBC researchers invent tiny artificial muscles with the strength, flexibility of elephant trunk

New method of growing high-quality graphene promising for next-generation technology.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have come one step closer to creating the next generation of computer chips using wonder material graphene.

Creative Materials, Inc., has developed a line of anisotropic conductive adhesives that are recommended for a wide range of applications, including LCD manufacturing, surface-mount connections in electronic devices, and RFID antenna assembly.

Intrinsiq continue to strengthen their conductive inks formulation and printed electronics application team .

Nanowires of copper could eliminate busted cell phone screens and make solar cells more competitive with fossil fuels.

Graphene is considered a hot candidate for applications such as computers, displays, photovoltaics, and flexible electronics.

Toyohashi Tech researchers develop a low cost and efficient method for producing electrically conducting composites based on electrostatic adsorption of CNTs onto resin and ceramic particles for applications including enzymes and cosmetics.

Microsoft designers create "The Printing Dress" - an award-winning wearable technology creation that's turning heads in design circles.

Teknek has reported unprecedented demand for its Ultracleen cleaning roller since its launch in May.

Electronic circuitry composed of nanowires can now be fitted to a surface of almost any shape on an object made of virtually any material, using a new approach to fabrication and transfer of nanowire electronics developed by Stanford researchers.

The Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON), which is helmed by the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), is ready to put roll-to-roll nanoimprint manufacturing to the test.

Aerotech's APR series rotary stages employ precision-machined and ground stage parts coupled with high-precision angular contact bearings and an Aerotech direct-drive motor to produce exceptionally low error motions, accuracy errors, and repeatability errors. The addition of high-resolution optical encoders provides excellent pointing capability with low-jitter velocity tracking.

Graphene, a sheet of carbon only a single atom thick, was an object of theoretical speculation long before it was actually made. Theory predicts extraordinary properties for graphene, but testing the predictions against experimental results is often challenging.

Korean scientists have used graphene sheets to make a transparent and lightweight loudspeaker which, they say, can be attached to windows and computer screens

PragmatIC Printing Ltd, the pioneer in imprinted logic circuits, and Holst Centre,an open-innovation initiative by imec (Belgium) and TNO (Netherlands), have recently announced their collaboration in the research, development and exploitation of flexible electronics.

Fujitsu Limited and Sapporo Shirakaba-dai Hospital recently announced the joint development of a clinical appointment guidance system that employs color electronic paper (e-paper). The system recently began full operations.

Imagine plugging a USB port into a sheet of paper, and turning it into a tablet computer. It might be a stretch, but ideas like this have researchers at North Carolina State University examining the use of conductive nanocoatings on simple textiles - like woven cotton or even a sheet of paper.

Vanadium dioxide—or VO2—is an interesting substance with a number of intriguing properties, including its propensity to switch from an insulator to a conductor at moderate temperatures.