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Huge new influx of partners to the Graphene Flagship project

To coincide with Graphene Week 2014, the European Commission is proud to announce that the Graphene Flagship, one of the largest-ever European research initiatives, is doubling in size.

Artificial skin that senses touch, humidity and temperature

Using tiny gold particles and a kind of resin, a team of scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has discovered how to make a new kind of flexible sensor that one day could be integrated into electronic skin, or e-skin.

Elbit Systems

Elbit System is an international defense electronics company. They have diversified into energy storage technology through a comprehensive supercapacitor research program. They are focusing on aqueous electrolyte based supercapacitors, which are safer but with lower performance than organic electrolyte based supercapacitors. However based on improvements in electrode materials (such as carbon nanotubes) they are closing the performance gap. They are a company with high-level research capabilities.

New nanotech fiber: robust handling, shocking performance

Rice University's latest nanotechnology breakthrough was more than 10 years in the making, but it still came with a shock.

Utah physicists invent 'Spintronic' LED

New technology promises brighter TV and computer displays

Pads to harvest energy from trains

Innowattech has broadened their energy harvesting designs to harvest energy from railways as well as roads.

Graphene could be used for touch-screen displays

New research could yield novel composites and touch-screen displays.

Battery could last thousands of hours

Professor Yair Ein-Eli at the Technion - Israel Institute of Science has conducted research into a battery that lasts for thousands of hours and is based on silicon that reverts back to sand when it's spent.

Breakthrough in industrial-scale nanotube processing

Rice University scientists have unveiled a method for the industrial-scale processing of pure carbon-nanotube fibers that could lead to revolutionary advances in materials science, power distribution and nanoelectronics.

Energy harvesting roads in Israel

Innowattech Energy Harvesting Systems based in Israel specialises in the development of custom piezoelectric generators for specific purposes such as harvesting mechanical energy imparted to roadways from passing vehicles.