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Filament raises $5 million for industrial internet of things

As the industrial internet continues to proliferate, companies rely on machine-to-machine communications to gather and analyze data from physical objects.

Going solid-state could make batteries safer and longer-lasting

Researchers have developed a new approach to one of the three basic components of batteries, the electrolyte.

Powerful battery in Audi electric, cell modules from LG and Samsung

South Korean high tech companies LG Chem and Samsung SDI to invest in European battery cell production for Audi Battery electric SUV with a range of more than 500 kilometres.

Nokia agreement to sell mapping business to automotive industry

Nokia has announced an agreement to sell its HERE digital mapping and location services business to a consortium of leading automotive companies, comprising AUDI AG, BMW Group and Daimler AG.

Plastic OLED display capacity ramps up & glass-based OLEDs downgraded

IDTechEx Research recently revised its forecast for OLED displays. Dr Guillaume Chansin, lead author of the IDTechEx report OLED Display Forecasts 2015-2025: The Rise of Plastic and Flexible Displays explains why.

Connected solutions for agriculture

The recent partnership between SIGFOX and Samsung Electronics has resulted in the launch of the ARTIK platform.

LG Display invests over $900 million in flexible OLEDs. Why?

This week LG Display announced that it will invest One Trillion Won for a flexible OLED display plant in Korea. Why?

Towards higher voltage supercapacitors for consumer electronics

In this instalment of our graphene series we discuss commercialising flexible graphene supercapacitors.

Jenax

Jenax has been listed on KOSDAQ, South Korea's Stock Exchange, since 2002. Its main business is in the iron and steel industry. It started to diversify into flexible batteries around 2010 and showed its first flexible battery prototype in 2015 at CES in Las Vegas, USA and in the Wearable Expo in Tokyo, Japan.

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.

First mirror and transparent OLED display panels

Samsung Display has decided to bring forward the mass production of its industry's first Mirror and Transparent OLED display panels.

Graphene doubles the energy density of lithium-ion batteries

In the study the new battery technology employs use of graphene on the silicon surface and that confers volume expansion leading to extended battery life.

Trends in PV metallization

The photovoltaic industry remains a major end user of printed electronics. In this article, we will provide a detailed cost breakdown of the wafer-based silicon photovoltaic cells, showing that Ag and Al metallization continue to constitute a major cost element of the overall PV cell even though the manufacturers make to zero margin. We will then investigate some of the trends in Ag metallization before commenting on silicon inks, which at one point appeared to be the technology that increased efficiency but were leapfrogged by progress in metallization pastes.

Flexible barrier technologies: a brief review of technology options

Back in 2014, we witnessed the launch of the first displays deposited on flexible substrates, and the first efforts to encapsulate them. There are significant differences in the encapsulation techniques utilized by each of the companies commercializing flexible electronics. These differences signify the variety of technologies available, in terms of deposition as well as material options for the barrier films, some of which are discussed in this article

New design strategies make batteries flexible and wearable

A new design strategy has emerged for making batteries flexible.

CSEM - Instrumentation and Medical Device Technology Division

CSEM are a not-for-profit research organisation based in Switzerland. They are a public-private partnership company, receiving Swiss government funding, and also having all of the major Swiss watchmakers (Swatch, Rolex, etc.) as shareholders. They have been working in wearable sensor technology for 20 years.