Advanced Materials

A groundbreaking technique that uses a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors.

In the developed transistor, two electrodes and two top gates are placed on graphene and graphene between the top gates is irradiated with a helium ion beam to introduce crystalline defects.

Cellergy is a developer of small supercapacitors for electronic applications. The company is currently under change of management given bad financial situation.

Fujifilm Dimatix has very high market penetration of inkjet printers and print heads for printed electronics. Its activity is profitable. However, inkjet printing has not been adopted so far for much commercial production of printed electronics, with other printing options being preferred but the company is also using its PZT technology in other applications.

The electrocatalytic activity of heteroatom-doped carbon-based nanomaterials has become a growing interest in the past few years due to their potential applications for fuel cells and metal-air batteries.

Holst Centre and Evonik Industries AG announce a partnership to extend the range and performance of thin-film electronics applications.

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and organic solar cells can now be developed at Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP in Potsdam-Golm in a near-industrial scale. The new pilot line was designed and implemented by Fraunhofer IAP in cooperation with the plant manufacturer MBRAUN.

SmartKem Limited has announced the launch of a pioneering ink evaluation kit which utilises the company's scientific expertise to significantly streamline the process of producing prototype flexible thin film transistors.

The joint research project of four institutes, entitled "FUNgraphen" and funded by the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, will build an innovation center aiming at the development of unconventional carbon nano materials, novel flat carbon macromolecules, nanocomposites and multilayer systems.

IDTechEx are pleased to launch TCF LIVE! - a new conference and tradeshow covering the latest technologies and application of transparent conductive films (TCF) - covering raw materials through to the full range of applications.

The European Commission has announced that it has chosen Graphene as one of Europe's first "Future Emerging Technology" flagship programmes, described as "the largest research excellence awards in history".

Found in 2008 as a spin-off from ETH Zurich, where Manuel Aschwanden, the CEO, developed this technology together with the Nanotechnology Group. Optotune are a material manufacturer and component or device manufacturer. The core competence lies in the optoelectromechanical design of optical systems, in the understanding of materials and in the control of accurate and clean manufacturing processes. They produce the dielectric in-house and have own formulations for the electrodes.

IDTechEx predicts that the market for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for electronics applications, currently still in its infancy, will reach $50M in 2013.

Safety fears about carbon nanotubes, due to their structural similarity to asbestos, have been alleviated following research showing that reducing their length removes their toxic properties.

Research projects that will focus on how to enhance the 'manufacturability' of graphene, one of the thinnest, strongest and most conductive materials known to man, are to receive £21.5 million in funding.