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Perovskite photovoltaics are a breath of fresh air

Perovskite solar cells are a breath of fresh air into the emerging photovoltaic technology landscape.

Insight Forums Tokyo 2015 - Energy Harvesting and Energy Storage

These forums will both address the business and technologies involved - providing significant market data to allow you to understand these complex landscapes.

IDTechEx - Technology Insight Forums Tokyo 2015

IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.

Graphene quality and pricing improves with maturing supply chain

Another in our series of articles on graphene.

Development avenues for electrolyte and separator systems

Supercapacitors have seen tremendous improvements over the past decade, resulting in higher power density, higher energy density and lower prices. Electrodes have seen the most amount of attention, effort and development. In this article however, we focus instead on electrolytes and separators. Directions in electrolyte research are towards high voltage, more stable and greener solutions. Similarly, separators need to improve purity and high voltage stability. This is particularly true if paper separators are to succeed. We will discuss these developments in this article.

BorgWarner goes electric with Remy

On July 13, BorgWarner paid a premium of 44% to buy Remy International.

48V Vehicle Systems

48V systems are close to adoption in some new cars across the world partly to cope with the greater amount of electricity being stored and distributed. They are also becoming attractive for some of the more basic electric vehicles.

Infinite Corridor Technology

Infinite Corridor Technology (ICT) was set up in 2009 as an MIT spin-off. Its technology enables the creation of flexible and stretchable PBCs. Its initial target market was wearable devices that can be twisted and flexed. Its technology uses standard PBC technology on copper-clad Kapton and does not require any inherently flexible technology such as special plastic substrates or printed conductive inks.

Winners in electric vehicle batteries

IDTechEx is the only market analyst tracking the development of 45 electric vehicle categories and not just electric cars.

Graphene taking the heat for hand-held devices, other electronic apps

The third in our series of articles on the graphene industry.

Cambridge Nanotherm

Cambridge Nanotherm is a hi-tech UK-based manufacturing SME company. It has proprietary patented technology for applying thermally conductive dielectric layer on 2D or 3D aluminium substrates. Nanotherm uses an electrochemical process which converts the surface of the aluminium sheet to alumina to give good bonding and low interfacial thermal resistance.

RFMicron

RFMicron designs and develops low-cost, wireless, battery-free sensors. The company offers both end-to-end solutions and stand-alone sensor monitoring products.

Webinar Thurs 23 July: Opportunities in Wearable Sensors

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Thursday 23 July 2015.

Graphene oxide for Lithium-Sulfur batteries

The second in our series of articles by leading players in the graphene industry, discusses progress with the use of graphene and graphene oxide in Li Sulphur batteries.

3D Printing in Metal: Companies, Materials and Applications

At IDTechEx, we have just launched a new report 3D Printing of Metals: 2015-2025, because metals is the fastest-growing segment of 3D printing, with printer sales growing at 48% and material sales growing at 32%. The report covers the full range of metal 3D printing equipment, using a wide range of precious metals and engineering alloys, in a variety of industries. Plastic 3D printing has its place in prototyping and education, but 3D printing in metal is being used to manufacture parts in a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, dental, jewellery, oil and gas, orthopaedics, printed electronics, tooling and general engineering. The slideshow below details some examples of companies developing or using the technology for new applications. It includes the parts they are 3D printing, the technology used, the materials used, the stage of commercialisation, the advantages, the disadvantages, and where they'd like to see improvements.

Commercializing graphene solutions for composites and batteries

At IDTechEx we have invited a number of leading players in the graphene industry to write opinion pieces, reflecting on their produces, latest research, market insight, and commercialisation experience. We will be releasing these articles over the next few weeks.

IDTechEx Research addresses global megatrends

We are sometimes asked how we choose the topics in which we specialise. There are several answers but certainly we choose topics that overlap and address the major technological and societal megatrends of this century. Four particularly come to mind.

Wireless Charging: Invitation Only Meeting 26 June 2015

IDTechEx was guest of Qualcomm at the Hilton Hotel Park Lane London 26 June and at the Formula E pure electric car racing in Battersea Park London the day after. This article focuses on the presentation by Steve Pazol VP & GM Wireless Charging.

EV Insights: Can Motorsport Technology Clean Up Our Cities?

This is an IDTechEx report on the invitation-only meeting "Can Motorsport Technology Clean Up Our Cities?" in London on June 26 2015.

Technological megatrends for vehicles

There are three important technological megatrends for vehicles that are now coming increasingly important. They are shaping what is designed and the market positioning of new vehicles from type of customer targeted to the location where the vehicles will be used.