27 Apr 2018
A higher-energy, safer and longer-lasting zinc battery
A team of researchers has created a water-based zinc battery that is simultaneously powerful, rechargeable, and intrinsically safe.
27 Apr 2018
Researchers 3D print electronics and cells directly on skin
In a groundbreaking new study, researchers used a customized, low-cost 3D printer to print electronics on a real hand for the first time, as shown on Printed Electronics World.
27 Apr 2018
Germ-zapping robots destroy germs and bacteria
Robots for the purpose of enhancing environmental cleanliness by disinfecting and destroying hard-to-kill germs, bacteria, and superbugs in hard to clean places.
27 Apr 2018
New solutions for factory floor from Stratasys
Stratasys has unveiled a range of new solutions designed to accelerate the use of additive manufacturing on the factory floor.
Full profile interview
27 Apr 2018
Saule Technologies
Saule Technologies is a spin-out company from University of Valencia working on perovskite solar cells, especially targeting consumer electronics applications.
Full profile interview
26 Apr 2018
Nanotec
Nanotec are manufacturers of nanomaterials including Cu, Li2S, and cellulose. Dr Richard Collins visited their facilities and spoke with Patricio Jarpa (General manager).
26 Apr 2018
US solar funding
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office announced $105.5 million in funding for projects that span the office's research portfolio and address the affordability, flexibility, and performance of solar technologies on the grid.
26 Apr 2018
Volvo Cars aims for 50 per cent of sales to be electric by 2025
Volvo Cars aims for fully electric cars to make up 50 per cent of its sales by 2025, the company announced.
26 Apr 2018
Electrics for Renewables Reinvented at ICREN Barcelona
IDTechEx is attending the International Renewable Energy Conference (ICREN) in Barcelona this week. This article reports on their findings from the first day keynotes.
26 Apr 2018
Drones tested for search and rescue
The scenarios being tested this week are a shoreline search for a casualty, an offshore search for multiple casualties in the sea, a mud rescue and a communications blackspot where a drone is required to relay information between rescue teams and a casualty on a cliff.
26 Apr 2018
Smart printing: power generating films and luminescent glass
New inks for inkjet printers make it possible to print organic displays or solar cells on film and glass for the use in architecture, the textile industry and many other industries.
26 Apr 2018
Fossil Group and PUMA sprinting into watches and wearables
Fossil Group Inc and PUMA SE signed a global license partnership agreement for the design, development and distribution of PUMA watches and smartwatches through 2028.
Background
25 Apr 2018
Botfactory
Update from IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2018.
Background
25 Apr 2018
Voltera
Update from IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2018.
Background
25 Apr 2018
Ricoh
Update from IDTechEx Show! Berlin 2018
Event summary
25 Apr 2018
IDTechEx Show Berlin 2018: 3D Printing Highlights
Technology Analyst Dr Bryony Core reports on her 3D printing findings at the IDTechEx Show! in Berlin.
25 Apr 2018
Fantastic Progress at Printed Electronics Europe
Europe's leading event on printed, flexible and hybrid electronics - Printed Electronics Europe, hosted by IDTechEx in Berlin on April 11-12, saw attendance from a record 63 countries with 16% growth of the exhibit floor space.
25 Apr 2018
Structural Electronics: Silicon on Supercapacitor Has Big Potential
Single crystal silicon photovoltaics will now be very affordable, obsoleting polycrystalline Si PV by having efficiency much higher. Laminating it onto supercapacitor sheeting will form a load bearing material that both makes and stores electricity, delivering it exceptionally fast when needed.
25 Apr 2018
Saudi Arabia - progress in going entirely solar
As predicted in the IDTechEx report,"Off Grid Desalination: Zero Emission", Saudi Arabia is making steady progress in going entirely solar, zero emission with its desalination program, the largest in the world.
25 Apr 2018
Nissan to launch three new EVs and five new e-POWER models in Japan
Nissan plans to launch three new electric vehicles and five e-POWER models in Japan by the end of fiscal 2022, the company announced.