Advanced Materials

This is the first glimpse of the new £61m research institute into wonder material graphene, which is to be built at The University of Manchester.

Principle Analyst Dr Harry Zervos recently updated IDTechEx's profile on 3M, covering their activity in the production of flexible barrier films.

Ioxus manufactures and commercializes supercapacitors, for transportation and industrial applications. They are a private company based in Oneonta, New York USA.

New technology advancements that could one day result in wearable smartphones, health monitoring improvements, and other applications.

The new web coating line is capable of processing many different polymers and additives and applies them to virtually any flexible substrate.

Tera Barrier is a spin-off from the A*Star Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. They are developing a thin film flexible barriers for use in organic electronics and thin film PV industries. The technology utilities metal nanoparticles and can be deposited using high-speed techniques such sputtering. Their display grade layer has been evaluated by the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science and has been found to have a 10E-6 WVTR using the Tritium test. Tera-Barriers will be ramping up production via partnership with a Japanese manufacturer.

Plastic Logic have developed a process to manufacture organic thin film transistors (OTFT) active matrix backplanes on plastic substrates. The backplanes can be used in displays or sensor applications.

Electrophoretic display maker expands into new applications.

In a move that's sure to be welcomed by research and development labs, Thomas Swan & Co. Ltd. have announced a new, improved-value pricing structure for their high quality Elicarb® Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes.

Toray industries is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial polymer materials. Its founding business areas were fibres and textiles, as well as plastics and chemicals, but the company has diversified into several other areas since.

Investigation of the electronic properties of nickel coated with graphene achieved an astonishing result.

Scientists have taken inspiration from one of the oldest natural materials to exploit the extraordinary qualities of graphene, a material set to revolutionise fields from computers and batteries to composite materials.