Advanced Materials

Join the webinar 23rd September - Introduction to changes in telecommunications infrastructure; choice of semiconductor technology for sub-6 GHz and mmWave 5G; case studies of sub-6 GHz and mmWave antenna and more.

OrelTech GmbH is a Berlin-based company that produces conductive metal inks for printed electronics applications. OrelTech pioneered a novel platform metallization technology that enables high-precision metal deposition onto a variety of surfaces, including temperature-sensitive plastics, fabrics, paper, composites, and active organic materials.

Mateprincs is an early stage company that supplies a wide range of conductive and other functional inks, including for screen printing, inkjet and offset lithography. They have close links with the Spanish Naitec research center, so can develop inks to meet specific customer requirements.

Nanopaint offer a wide range of functional inks for printed electronics, including piezoresistive, piezoelectric and magnetic inks. They also offer inks to produce anodes and cathodes for printed batteries, and are developing transparent conductive and chemical sensing inks. In 2019 Nanopaint started manufacturing printed sensors themselves.

Chasm is a materials company that has invented and manufactures a category of advanced materials known as carbon nanotubes hybrids (CNT Hybrids). CNTs are combined with other materials creating a hybrid to improve the performance properties of the material alone. They are best known for their transparent, flexible conductive inks/films, but also find applications for their CNTs in battery electrodes, tires and other emerging applications.

CENS Materials has developed a process for dispersing CNTs for energy storage applications. IDTechEx spoke with Michael Bromfman and Moshe Johary.

NeoGraf specialise in graphite heat spreading products with applications for several market. In this update interview, they gave an overview of their technology for batteries in maritime applications and their hopes for application within automotive applications.

Electric vehicles are expected to include solid-state batteries as an innovative approach, according to IDTechEx's research report "Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2020-2030: Technology, Patents, Forecasts, Players".

CPI, the Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry and the Henry Royce Institute are delighted to announce a collaboration that will enable the organisations to work together to help UK companies develop and commercialise products that use new advanced materials.

Flisom describes its flexible solar panels as customizable currently, meaning made to customer formats in their factory, developed in the Empa Photovoltaics Laboratory.

At the recent ChargedEVs event, Heraeus demonstrated a new material for interconnects in electric vehicle power modules, that combines the advantages of aluminium and copper.

We interviewed President Dr David Olawale August 2020. His areas of expertise include multifunctional composites, sensor systems, product development and technology commercialization.

Copper is one of the most important materials to all of human activity. With very good electrical and thermal conductivity with relative abundance the impact is far reaching.

SmartKem offers a portfolio of materials for organic thin film transistors. The main target application is flexible display backplanes, including OLEDs, LCDs and EPDs. In August 2020 they announced they had developed a prototype that applied their flexible backplane to an array of miniLEDs with a target applications of full area local dimming (FALD) of LCDs.

Materials informatics is quickly becoming one of the most significant areas of interest for chemical and material companies.

Wednesday 16 September 2020 - Seeing Is Believing: The Truth Behind the Optics and Displays of AR/MR/VR. Why do optics and displays Matter? What are the key properties in choosing an optical set-up? What are the key properties in choosing a micro-display? Where are these markets going in the next decade?

What do you now purchase by the kilowatt hour? The new supercapacitors replacing batteries. The new IDTechEx report, "Supercapacitor Markets, Technology Roadmap, Opportunities 2021-2041", shows how supercapacitors have started to replace 10% of lithium-ion batteries and help kill lead-acid.

MWCNTs (Multi-walled carbon nanotubes) are not a new technology and do not grab the headlines in the same way graphene or other exciting 2D materials do.

DTechEx currently have a number of printed electronics related webinars available to watch on-demand today. These include presentations on printed sensors, micro-LED displays and electronics reshaped. There is also another chance to view our virtual conference - Opportunities for Printed & Flexible Electronics.

CHASM Advanced Materials announced a strategic partnership with Henkel Adhesive Technologies. Henkel has certified and will carry one of CHASM's Signis line of patented CNT inks under their LOCTITE brand.