26 Mar 2020
New York to Host Second 15 Hour Duration Zinc Battery Energy Storage
Zinc8 Energy Solutions has made a deal to deploy a 100kW/1.5MWh zinc-air battery energy storage system in New York City, with financial support to come from New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.
26 Mar 2020
Perovskite Solution Aging: Scientists Find Solution
Perovskite solar cells have developed quickly in the past decade. But like silicon solar cells, the efficiency of perovskite solar cells is highly dependent upon the quality of the perovskite layer, which is related to its crystallinity.
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26 Mar 2020
TactoTek and Lightworks Partner for Lighting Innovation for Vehicles
TactoTek and Lightworks GmbH announced their collaboration on in-mold lighting solutions. Together the companies will accelerate the development and use of in-mold lighting for styling and function for vehicle interiors and exteriors.
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26 Mar 2020
First Online Consumer Platform for Purchasing Remote Solar Panels
The project is unique as it gives an opportunity to buy or rent a remote solar panel and do all that using one online platform. As the world needs faster and more efficient ways to generate renewable energy, online platforms like "Solar Community" could be a life-changing solution.
26 Mar 2020
Graphene for Remote Wound Monitoring
French scientists at the Neel Institute have produced a graphene patch that records the condition of chronic wounds, such as ulcers suffered by the elderly or those with diabetes, at any time. The data can be sent from home to the hospital via mobile phone, facilitating a rapid response to possible infections.
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26 Mar 2020
Titomic Appoints Sales and Distribution Partner in Turkey
Australian industrial scale metal additive manufacturing company Titomic is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with Turkish-based BTech Innovation to be Titomic's authorised distributor of Titomic Kinetic Fusion systems and metal powders into Turkey.
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26 Mar 2020
Li-Cycle
IDTechEx analysts spoke with Li-Cycle, a North America based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company.
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26 Mar 2020
Energy Experience Group Acquires NovaVolt
Koolen Industries' solar subsidiary Energy Experience Group has acquired solar panel installation company NovaVolt Solar Energy for more than 5 million euros.
25 Mar 2020
The Meat Industry is Unsustainable
Meat is big business. The global industry is worth over $2 trillion and JBS, the world's largest meat company, makes over $50 billion in annual revenue. This article from Dr Michael Dent discusses the sustainability problems in the meat industry and what can be done?
25 Mar 2020
EHang Expands in Europe with First UAM Program in Seville, Spain
EHang entered into a cooperation agreement with the city government of Seville, Spain to execute the first Urban Air Mobility pilot program in Spain.
25 Mar 2020
Robotics in Maintenance and Repair
Inspecting fuel and ballast tanks. Sand-blasting old paint coatings and applying new ones. Removing corrosion on ships, submarines, aircraft and other vehicles. These are some of the unpleasant jobs in naval shipyards and maintenance facilities that could be made safer by pairing human workers with robots.
25 Mar 2020
Virtual Reality: To Be or Not to Be?
XR is a term which has become more prominent in the last few years. It encapsulates virtual, augmented, and mixed reality topics. The definition of each of these has become saturated in the past decade, with companies using their own definitions for each to describe their products.
25 Mar 2020
The Plastic Problem is Getting Worse. Could Bioplastics be the Answer?
Plastic pollution is rapidly becoming one of the world's biggest environmental issues as increasing production of single use plastic products far outweighs the world's ability to deal with them.
25 Mar 2020
Flexible Solar Cells for Future Satellites
ESA has backed the creation of this flexible, ultra-thin solar cell to deliver the best power to mass ratio for space missions.
25 Mar 2020
Samsung Presents All-Solid-State Battery Technology
Compared to widely used lithium-ion batteries, which utilize liquid electrolytes, all-solid-state batteries support greater energy density, which opens the door for larger capacities, and utilize solid electrolytes, which are demonstrably safer.
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25 Mar 2020
Advanced Electric Machines Ltd
Advanced Electric Machines (AEM) produce a novel form of electric motor which has no reliance on rare-earths or copper windings. AEM have a partnership and applications within commerical vehicles and are looking to expand even further.
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24 Mar 2020
Enjet
Enjet offers high resolution printing, based on electrohydrodynamic fluid control. This is capable of depositing femtoliter (nanoscale diameter) droplets, and ultimately enables features with a 1 um resolution.
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24 Mar 2020
Electroninks
Electroninks has commercialized particle-free conductive inks for printed electronics applications. Such inks are marketed to replace nanoparticle inks, metal paste and sputtered or deposited metals.
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24 Mar 2020
LG Chem
LG Chem have been expanding their Li-ion business aggressively.
24 Mar 2020
3D Printing Hubs, Experts Connected to Hospitals for Coronavirus Aid
As countries worldwide face the challenge of managing the COVID-19 pandemic, Ultimaker is making its global network of 3D printing hubs, experts, and designers directly available to hospitals in need of tools and applications that are short in supply and can be quickly produced with 3D printing.