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Photo-Rechargable Zinc-Ion Devices Merge Solar Cell and Battery Tech

Scientists have made a battery that can be directly charged in sunlight without needing an external solar panel. Clever design of the battery electrodes facilitates photo-rechargeable zinc-ion batteries that could find applications as cheap devices for off-grid solar farms.

Remote Specimen Collection Robot

The robot system is composed of a master device controlled by medical personnel and a slave robot that interacts with patients. The slave robot is equipped with a disposable swab, which retrieves samples from the nose and mouth of a patient, and moves according to the operation of the master device.

Sentons - Product announcements

Sentons announced use of their "software defined surfaces" products in two new devices from leading players: Lenovo and Asus. This profile gives more details of the relationship and the products launched.

Mitsui Mining

Mitsui Mining: Nano copper pressured and pressure-less sintering under N2 environment

Respiratory Diseases Detection AI

Innovation roadmap for the report 'AI in Medical Diagnostics 2020-2030: Image Recognition, Players, Clinical Applications, Forecasts'.

Hitachi Chemical

Hitachi is offering Cu sintering paste. The pastes are offered in three varieties as outlined in the profile. In general, the challenge is to prevent oxidization during the sintering.

Ynvisible

Ynvisible is a developer and manufacturer of printed electrochromic displays and the associated printed circuitry. They have an R2R manufacturing facility for printed electronics, which they use for both their own products and through partnerships with other companies.

Symborg

Symborg is an agri-tech company that produces a range of biostimulants and biofertilizers - naturally derived products that boost crop yield without harming the environment. In July 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Vincent Fuerte, EMEA manager at Symborg.

Rock Star of Photovoltaics is CIGS

Estimates vary but we are certainly in $100 billion, 100GW territory with the booming photovoltaic market. The new IDTechEx report, "Electronics Reshaped 2020-2040" reveals solar market growth by new capabilities opening previously impossible applications.

Indium Corporation

Indium Corp has launched in 2019 its development product. It is a pressure-less silver sintering dispense paste.

KFC to 3D Print Chicken Nuggets

KFC is taking the next step in its innovative concept of creating a "restaurant of the future" by launching the development of 3D bioprinting technology to create chicken meat in cooperation with the 3D Bioprinting Solutions research laboratory.

High Performing Hybrid Solar Energy Converter

Researchers are part of a team of scientists who have developed a hybrid solar energy converter that generates electricity and steam with high efficiency and low cost.

AI to Forecast Large-Scale Tropical Instability Waves

Large-scale oceanic phenomena are complicated and often involve many natural processes. Tropical instability wave is one of these phenomena.

Creative Materials Introduces New Electrically Conductive Inks

Creative Materials introduces a new series of high-temperature electrically conductive inks, adhesives and dielectric coatings.

Cancer Detection AI: State of Development and Market Readiness

Innovation roadmap for the report 'AI in Medical Diagnostics 2020-2030: Image Recognition, Players, Clinical Applications, Forecasts'.

Augmented and Virtual Reality: Technology of the Future, Today

By 2030, IDTechEx predicts the augmented, virtual and mixed reality market to be over $30Bn. With COVID limiting physical interaction, virtual communication and interaction will be the normal for many years to come.

Join the IDTechEx Webinar on Printed Sensors - 6 August

A detailed look at the technologies underpinning printed image and piezoresistive sensors; An assessment of the technological readiness level of competing technologies; Discussion of existing and emerging applications; and Identification of technological challenges and innovation opportunities

Mobile Robot Cleaner Takes Production Hygiene to a Higher Level

Production lines and hygiene zones have to be spotlessly clean. And absolute cleanliness is critical wherever food is processed and medical instruments are handled. Now researchers have come up with a mobile cleaning device that sanitizes equipment and production spaces standards in a reproducible way.

Cobalt-Free Lithium-Ion Battery Reduces Costs not Performance

For decades, researchers have looked for ways to eliminate cobalt from the high-energy batteries that power electronic devices, due to its high cost and the human rights ramifications of its mining. But past attempts haven't lived up to the performance standards of batteries with cobalt.

Record Conversion for Perovskite Solar Cells

A team of researchers has created a perovskite solar mini module that has recorded the highest power conversion efficiency of any perovskite-based device larger than 10 cm2.