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Velo3D Expands Team

As Velo3D Inc prepares to become a public company, it has announced two new senior positions. After expanding its on-the-ground presence in Europe last month, the company has hired their first Vice President of Investor Relations and added depth to their North American sales team.

Ripple in Flexible Material Could Improve Electronic Properties

Two-dimensional materials — those either only an atom or layer thick — display a number of interesting properties and could form the foundation for a range of new devices. One of these materials, molybdenum disulfide, has shown an unusual flexibility that could make it attractive as a semiconducting component of bendable electronics.

Individual 3D-printed bandages

A bioengineering professor, along with the help of other engineering faculty and students, created a 3D printer that uses electrospinning technology to print bandages directly onto a patient's skin, making them fit the individual's physical form.

A few self-driving cars can dramatically improve traffic flow

The presence of just a few autonomous vehicles can eliminate the stop-and-go driving of the human drivers in traffic, along with the accident risk and fuel inefficiency it causes, according to new research.

Making electronics out of coal

Coal could become the basis for solar panels, batteries, or electronic devices.

Wearable airbags for injury prevention

Fall-in-progress technology deploys airbag protection around the hip, immediately prior to impact, in order to reduce hip impact, automatically and within a fraction of a second.

Meeting of Japan Energy Harvesting Consortium September 25 2015

As energy harvesting becomes a different and much more noticed subject, IDTechEx monitors the situation by intensive visits to many events, companies and universities. The meeting of the Japan Energy Harvesting Consortium September 2015 was certainly revealing.

Radically new energy harvesting in the form of magnetostriction

Energy harvesting is the creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed using ambient energy, from sunshine to vibration or temperature difference.

Swelling magnets to energise the world

A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered by researchers.

Swelling magnets to energise the world

A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered.