Energy Storage

A paperlike battery electrode may improve tools for space exploration or unmanned aerial vehicles.

By chemically modifying and pulverizing a promising group of compounds, scientists have potentially brought safer, solid-state rechargeable batteries two steps closer to reality.

Rachel Gordon attended Semi-Therm in San Jose to learn about thermal management in a wide variety of devices and industries. This article describes TIM requirements for different application areas.

Skeleton Technologies won the Ecosummit London Award for the best startup in 2015, as Europe's biggest developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor cells. Customers include the European Space Agency, which uses the product to solve power delivery and energy storage issues by recapturing energy and providing peak and backup power.

This article shares some of the market research carried out for the brand new IDTechEx report, Future Powertrains 2016-2036.

This was the topic IDTechEx was asked to address in a meeting of the SMMT EV Group 17.3.16 in London. Here we share our response.

Researchers have developed a new method that uses plasma to print nanomaterials onto a 3-D object or flexible surface, such as paper or cloth.

From many different angles, the printed electronics sector is gaining commercial momentum. In this article, IDTechEx explores some of the top trends in the industry.

A naturally occurring red bread mould could be the key to producing more sustainable electrochemical materials for use in rechargeable batteries, researchers have found.

Japanese scientists have synthesized two crystal materials that show great promise as solid electrolytes.

Calcium, an abundant and inexpensive element, can form the basis for both the negative electrode layer and the molten salt that forms the middle layer of the three-layer battery.

New research shows that repeatedly crumpling sheets of the nanomaterial graphene can actually enhance some of its properties.

A new research consortium involving Professor Saiful Islam from the University of Bath's Department of Chemistry has been awarded £6.8 million by the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council to explore and develop next-generation lithium batteries.

Something is stirring in the field of fuel cell vehicles.

Researchers have created a supercondenser that can be charged by the sun. It contains no expensive or hazardous materials, has patents pending, and it should be fully possible to manufacture it on an industrial scale.

The large IDTechEx Show! in Berlin April 27-28 with over 2500 paying delegates once again invests in startups.

Hydrogen is the lightest and most plentiful element on Earth and in our universe. So it shouldn't be a big surprise that scientists are pursuing hydrogen as a clean, carbon-free, virtually limitless energy source for cars and for a range of other uses, from portable generators to telecommunications towers—with water as the only byproduct of combustion.

ka plc is using the IDTechEx Conference in Berlin for the global launch of its ground-breaking micro battery technology on 27th April 2016. Its new family of batteries is set to revolutionise the design of sensors for the Internet of Things.

As electronics grow ever more intricate, so must the tools required to fix them. Anticipating this challenge, scientists turned to the body's immune system for inspiration and have now built self-propelled nanomotors that can seek out and repair tiny scratches to electronic systems.

We have had a feast of lithium-ion batteries as the number of manufacturers has doubled to 200 and pure electric cars have been late in arriving. Now that will change even with the gigafactories.