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Research built only on your immediate needs has shallow roots

At 2016FLEX, a vast array of alliances, standards institutes, and innovation initiatives were represented. Many presented their views of the industry and their roadmaps for the coming years. This article summarizes some of the key highlights in this area.

Lithium-ion battery famine will favour new powertrain

We have had a feast of lithium-ion batteries as the number of manufacturers has doubled to 200 and pure electric cars have been late in arriving. Now that will change even with the gigafactories.

IDTechEx Interview: Renesas Microcontroller

This is an interview taken with the Renesas Electronics Corporation at the Printed Electronics USA event.

Ocean robots surpass one million nautical miles at sea

Liquid Robotics has announced that its fleets of Wave Gliders have reached 1 million nautical miles at sea—an important milestone for the unmanned surface vehicle industry.

Why Samsung will re-enter the OLED TV market

LG Display is currently the only manufacturer of large OLED panels. But it is not just the rivalry with LG that will drive Samsung to invest in OLED production capacity.

GKN brings supercar hybrid technology to mass market

GKN Driveline is transferring hybrid technology from super sports cars such as the Porsche 918 Spyder and BMW i8 into affordable compact vehicles.

Unorthodox unmanned aircraft pushes the limits of technology

Aurora's Phase 2 design for VTOL X-Plane envisions an unmanned aircraft with two large rear wings and two smaller front canards—short winglets mounted near the nose of the aircraft.

Seven patents to develop cheaper lighting and flexible solar cells

n November 2012, the TREASORES project (Transparent Electrodes for Large Area Large Scale Production of Organic Optoelectronic Devices) started with the aim of developing technologies to dramatically reduce the production costs of organic electronic devices such as solar cells and LED lighting panels.

3D bioprinter to create building blocks for new tissue

Advances in technology have made it possible to produce bone, muscle and even organs using a 3D bioprinter, which allows scientists to generate tissue in a laboratory environment.

Cheaper battery technology for solar storage

Researchers have formed a partnership to develop sodium-ion cells as a significantly lower cost alternative to lithium-ion batteries for solar energy storage.

PV Nano Cell: IDTechEx 3D Printing USA 2015 Award Winner

A presentation by Dr Fernando de La Vega, CEO of PV Nano Cell.

New semiconductor inks for printed electronics in LCD and OLED display

Printed electronic circuits will become more efficient in future with new semiconductor inks from BASF.

Photo-electrochemical cell can store the energy of ultraviolet light

By combining highly specialised new materials scientists have managed to combine high temperature photovoltaics with an electrochemical cell.

Daimler invests 500 million Euros in new battery factory

Daimler is expanding its activities in the area of electromobility and investing around 500 million Euros in the construction of a new battery factory. This

Wearable Sensor System for Monitoring Food Intake

A video interview taken with Muhammad Farooq of The University of Alabama at the IDTechEx Wearable USA event, presenting his poster "A Wearable Sensor System for Monitoring of Food Intake".

Flexible, printed and thin film batteries:A new era for energy storage

The battery market has suddenly become alive again in recent years. On the one hand, batteries are assuming new form factors, becoming ultra-thin, flexible, rollable, stretchable, etc. On the other hand, manufacturing are scrambling to offer large batteries aimed at addressing the large-sized electric vehicle and grid applications.

Enter the Printed Electronics Europe awards, closing date 18 March

The IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe conference and exhibition will take place on 27 & 28 April at the Estrel convention center in Berlin. This is the only event focused on the commercialisation of printed, organic and flexible electronics.

Key improvement made in solar cell voltage technology

Researchers improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride solar cell, overcoming a practical limit that has been pursued for six decades and is key to improving efficiency.

Finland's first battery-powered ferry

Siemens has been commissioned to provide the complete electro-technical solution for Finland's first battery-powered car ferry.

Poietis

Poietis have developed the laser-assisted printing of bio-ink containing living human cells and a dispersive media to create 3D human tissue models for in vitro testing. It is developing skin models in collaboration with BASF for testing cosmetics, to be commercialised during 2016.