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Royole Corporation

Royole develops the technology to manufacture flexible AMOLED displays. In 2014, the company demonstrated a flexible display with a thickness of only 10 microns. They are based in the Silicon Valley and in Shenzhen (China).

Graphene: in need of business development

About $160 million has been invested in graphene companies, excluding government and IPO financing. Companies continue to move up the value chain, from selling graphene to selling graphene based intermediary products such as inks - a welcome development from end users as it lifts their burden of fine tuning and experimentation.

Telit enabling leap in productivity across the internet of things

Telit Wireless Solutions has announced, that the company's ONE STOP. ONE SHOP. offering is enabling a new era of enterprise productivity gains.

ILS Technology enables the information-driven enterprise

LS Technology, a Telit company, has announced enhancements to its popular deviceWISE Application Enablement Platform for the Industrial Internet-of-Things.

Update on graphene from China

IDTechEx Research recently attended a graphene conference in China. This was a timely event as the activity on graphene in China is picking up. Here is a summary of what we learned

Solution to lithium air batteries' premature death problem

Researchers have reduced the problem of sudden death in lithium air batteries through the addition of water, increasing their energy storage capacity by five times.

New technique offers spray-on solar power

Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap.

New technique offers spray-on solar power

Researchers at the University of Toronto, and IBM Canada's Research and Development Centre have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs)—a major step toward making spray-on solar cells easy and cheap to manufacture.

Efficient method to produce nanoporous metals

These metals open the application space to areas such as energy harvesting, sensing and electrochemical studies

The graphene industry in 2014 and its prospects

The graphene industry has witnessed much activity over the past year. This article will discuss the latest developments in the graphene industry and will share our ten-year market projections.

Sunflower energy brings solar power to remote locations

The system can concentrate the sun's radiation 2,000 times and convert 80 percent of it into useful energy to generate 12 kilowatts of electrical power and 20 kilowatts of heat on a sunny day — enough to power several average homes.

Space-time insight and NEC announce smart energy partnership

Space-Time Insight, the leading provider of next-generation situational intelligence solutions, and NEC Corporation have announced the formation of a partnership for the smart energy market.

Simple procedure to obtain nanosized graphenes

The method discovered by CiQUS researchers allows them to obtain well-defined nanographenes in one-pot from perylene, a very common organic compound.

Government investment drives UK lead in IoT

A consortium of more than 40 UK-based technology companies funded by the UK's innovation agency, Technology Strategy Board, has delivered on the first phase of its initiative to accelerate the widespread move to the Internet of Things.

Wearable technology $50 billion investment frenzy

Many giant electronics manufacturers, computer services companies and conglomerates are heavily investing in wearable technologies, the internet of things, and the internet of people. IDTechEx predicts massive growth in these areas in the coming years.

Internet of Things: The King has no clothes

Some use the term Internet of Things (IoT) to rename a large number of existing topics including the burgeoning world of cellphones, tablets and wearable connected devices, better referred to as the Internet of People (IoP).

Highlights from IDTechEx's Berlin 2014 show

This year's IDTechEx event on energy harvesting and storage was held in Berlin, Europe. Following attendee feedback and a successful introduction of parallel tracks on the topic of the Internet of Things (IoT) in Santa Clara, California at the end of 2013, the event saw the transformation of the wireless sensor networks (WSN) part of the conference to an event that incorporated significant attention to the advent of the IoT and the way the technologies covered would interact in order to create further adoption and proliferation.

Highlights from the Printed Electronics Europe event in Berlin

The 11th annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics event took place in Berlin last week. The conference and tradeshow looked at a diverse range of technologies - both within printed electronics and also related technologies, such as Graphene, Wearable Technology, the Internet of Things, Energy Harvesting and 3D Printing, reflecting the broad opportunities for the technology.

Highlights from the IDTechEx emerging technology events in Berlin

IDTechEx recently organised a co-located conference and tradeshow on printed electronics, energy harvesting, 3D printing, graphene and supercapacitors. In this article series, we will provide some of the latest highlights from these conferences.

Microfluidic fuel cells on paper

Medical diagnostic devices could be taken to the next level with the development of microfluidic fuel cells on paper.