Energy Storage

In the penultimate edition of our five part series of articles on thin, flexible, printed and micro-batteries, IDTechEx analyst Xiaoxi He assesses applications and opportunities within the broader portable electronics market.

Are petrol prices affecting the electrification of industrial electric vehicles? IDTechEx says the best is yet to come! This article aims to provide a guide on how the new dynamics of petrol prices is affecting electric vehicles in general and industrial electric vehicles specifically.

New novel materials are being developed for next generation Li-ion batteries. One promising anode-cathode material pair is lithium titanate countered by lithium iron phosphate.

The material at the heart of the lithium ion batteries that power electric vehicles, laptop computers and smartphones has been shown to impair a key soil bacterium, according to research.

In the third of a five part series of articles on thin, flexible, printed and micro-batteries, IDTechEx analyst Xiaoxi He looks at the medical & cosmetic application markets that thin and flexible batteries are targeting.

After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers have confirmed that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips and their power sources to become one and the same.

For the first time ever, scientists have successfully 3D-printed supercapacitors using an ultra-lightweight graphene aerogel, opening the door to novel, unconstrained designs of highly efficient energy storage systems for smartphones, wearables, implantable devices, electric cars and wireless sensors.

Formula One is significant in two ways. It is a major business in its own right at approaching $14bn and it pioneers vital new technologies in a car or bus near you from the disk brake to the flywheel kinetic energy recovery system and the supercapacitor hybrid powertrain.

IDTechEx proudly supports start-ups in many ways. Our latest initiative is an "EVES Launchpad" for Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage start-ups where they can exhibit free of charge at the large IDTechEx Show! in Berlin on April 27-28.

Video interview with IDTechEx analyst Franco Gonzalez.

The IDTechEx Show! in Berlin, 27-28 April has over 40 companies exhibiting that are involved in energy harvesting from the materials to the chips.

Research teams have produced a cost-effective catalyst material for fuel cells using a new preparation process which they analysed in detail.

In the second of a five part series of articles on thin, flexible, printed and micro-batteries, IDTechEx analyst Xiaoxi He focuses on the applications of these batteries within the wearable technology sector.

IDTechEx attended the second innoLAE conference, which took place on the 1st and 2nd of February 2016 in Cambridge (UK). It was organised by the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics.

IDTechEx interviewed Hong Choi, the CTO/R&D Manager at Kopin corporation. Kopin span out of MIT over 30 years ago, and has been developing microdisplay technologies, starting with a $55m DARPA project in the early 1990s. Today, the company is focused on the wearable technology market, and particularly on near-eye computing. This profile also mentions their work on high-capacity, SiO-C anode lithium-ion batteries, developed with Hitachi Maxell.

Scientists have a new recipe for batteries: Bake a leaf, and add sodium.

Scientists have been trying for years to make a practical lithium-ion battery anode out of silicon, which could store 10 times more energy per charge than today's commercial anodes and make high-performance batteries a lot smaller and lighter.

In the first of a five part series of articles on thin, flexible, printed and micro-batteries, IDTechEx analyst Xiaoxi He gives an overview of the broad application sectors and markets that batteries with new form factors serve.

ALISE is a pan European collaboration focused on the development and commercial scale-up of new materials as well as understanding the electrochemical processes involved in Lithium Sulfur technology.

Video interview with Will Zell, CEO of Nikola Labs at the Energy Harvesting & Storage USA event.