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Wearable technology in 2015 - how far have we come?

As the hype around wearable technology fades, IDTechEx technology analyst James Hayward looks at where the industry is now.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2015 Award Winners

At the Printed Electronics USA 2015 conference and exhibition, five companies were awarded for their great achievement in developing and commercializing printed electronics technologies. The awards were presented to the five winning companies by Ralph Russo, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Novasentis, who has also had a prolific and highly successful career as an executive at Apple, Honeywell, Bay Networks, and Nortel Networks.

The conductive ink market is changing fast

IDTechEx finds that the conductive ink market is fast changing. It is currently a $2.3bn market, making it one of the largest segments of all printed electronics.

Nagase America Corporation

EMS based in Delaware, OH, USA was acquired by Nagase Chemtex Corporation in 2012 after about 10 years of collaborative efforts between the two companies in epoxy materials development. Originally working on epoxy adhesives for industrial applications, in early 2000's EMS developed conductive epoxies and hence started its foray into conductive inks.

C3Nano closes series C funding round

C3Nano has announced that it has raised $12M in Series C funding.

C3Nano

C3nano was founded in 2010, as a spin out from Prof Zhenan Bao's group at Stanford university. C3Nano has developed solution-coated, transparent, conductive materials that compete directly with indium tin oxide (ITO) and claim to have the highest conductivity with the best optical quality in the market due to their IP on AgNWs.

Printed Electronics USA covers the dynamic ITO replacement market

The transparent conductive film (TCF) and glass (TCG) market is booming and fast becoming transformed. This market is forecast to grow to $6.3 billion market in 2024.

Colloidal Ink Co., Ltd

Colloidal Ink is a recently formed spin-out from Okayama University. IDTechEx awarded Colloidal Ink the best Technical Development Materials Award at its Printed Electronics Conference (Europe) 2013. Colloidal Ink has developed a patented and promising formulation technology which enables rapid sintering of conductive nano inks at room temperature. They have so far demonstrated their conductive paints using gold nanoparticles and are also developing nano silver in their pipeline. Their samples today are conductive paints and the formulation will have to be modified to create screen- or inkjet- printable inks. Colloidal Ink is now in the sample distribution mode.