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Li-Cycle

IDTechEx analysts spoke with Li-Cycle, a North America based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LG Chem

LG Chem have been expanding their Li-ion business aggressively.

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.

UK's First Electric Avenue

Siemens has unveiled the UK's first avenue, which is over half a mile in length, that has been fully converted to cater for electric vehicle charging, coined 'Electric Avenue, W9'.

Poland Quadruples Solar Energy Output, 5th Largest Producer in Europe

Poland quadrupled its solar power installations from 203 MW connected to the grid in 2018 to 784 MW in 2019. In 2020, Poland is planning to almost double its installations to 1.3 GW. These changes are important for the EU and Poland, as the country is the biggest coal producer in the Union.

Stretchable Supercapacitors to Power Tomorrow's Wearable Devices

Researchers demonstrate robust supercapacitors that still work when stretched to eight times their original size.

Device Brings Silicon Computing Power to Brain Research, Prosthetics

Researchers have developed a new device for connecting the brain directly to silicon-based technologies. While brain-machine interface devices already exist - and are used for prosthetics, disease treatment and brain research - this latest device can record more data while being less intrusive than existing options.

Aktiia Raises Funding for Cuffless Optical Blood Pressure Monitor

Aktiia, a Swiss-US startup that has developed an optical blood pressure monitor at the wrist, has raised an additional CHF 6 million in funding to bring its product to market.

Sunray Scientific

Sunray Scientific has developed a magnetic anisotropic conductive elastomer (ACE), which enables much enhanced vertical conductivity using magnetic fields rather than pressure.