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21 Jan 2013
3M
Principle Analyst Dr Harry Zervos recently updated IDTechEx's profile on 3M, covering their activity in the production of flexible barrier films.
Background
18 Jan 2013
Ioxus
Ioxus manufactures and commercializes supercapacitors, for transportation and industrial applications. They are a private company based in Oneonta, New York USA.
18 Jan 2013
Supercapacitors to the rescue
They call it the Bad Dreamliner because the new Boeing jet has been beset with electrical problems. When new, the Airbus A380 also had electrical problems but they were caught at an early stage. This time it has been more dramatic. In one instance a fire raged in the belly of a Boeing 787 parked at Logan International Airport in the USA. Flames were doused that emanated from the lithium-ion battery compartment. Investigations continue to determine the precise origin of that problem but the air industry is acutely aware that lithium-ion batteries have caused extreme incidents before.
17 Jan 2013
Electric cars: Success by a different route
Everything about an electric car is facing total change. Different materials for bodywork, structural components leading to smart skin, laminar electrics, printed electronics and totally new components are coming along.
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15 Jan 2013
Tera-Barrier Films
Tera Barrier is a spin-off from the A*Star Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore. They are developing a thin film flexible barriers for use in organic electronics and thin film PV industries. The technology utilities metal nanoparticles and can be deposited using high-speed techniques such sputtering. Their display grade layer has been evaluated by the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science and has been found to have a 10E-6 WVTR using the Tritium test. Tera-Barriers will be ramping up production via partnership with a Japanese manufacturer.
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14 Jan 2013
E Ink Holdings
Electrophoretic display maker expands into new applications.
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14 Jan 2013
Plastic Logic
Plastic Logic have developed a process to manufacture organic thin film transistors (OTFT) active matrix backplanes on plastic substrates. The backplanes can be used in displays or sensor applications.
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10 Jan 2013
Toray Industries Inc
Toray industries is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan that specializes in industrial polymer materials. Its founding business areas were fibres and textiles, as well as plastics and chemicals, but the company has diversified into several other areas since.
10 Jan 2013
Piezoelectric energy harvesting: Developments, challenges, future
The days when piezoelectric energy harvesting was considered unreliable and had low power output are long gone. Hand in hand with the development of ultra low power electronics, energy harvesters have been drastically improving also.