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Resonac Holdings Corporation: Liquid Crystal Acryl Elastomer (LCE)

IDTechEx interviewed Resonac at NEPCON Japan 2025 to discuss its latest thermal interface materials.

Parallel Carbon

Start-up Parallel Carbon uses a membraneless electrolyzer for direct air capture and green hydrogen production.

How Electric Vans Could Soon Become Cheaper Than Diesel

With global cargo and e-commerce demand set to skyrocket over the next 20 years, electric light commercial vehicles (eLCVs) will play a crucial role in the decarbonization of transport. eLCVs are now technologically mature enough to compete with current combustion vehicles on virtually all performance metrics. However, before they can be adopted en-masse into commercial fleets, they must first demonstrate that they can be financially competitive too.

PowerUp: Battery Analytics for BESS

IDTechEx interviewed battery analytics company PowerUp to discuss the future of AI in battery diagnostics and management.

How Will AI Mold the Battery Development Cycle?

AI is placed to reshape the battery supply chain over the next few years, with machine learning providing powerful tools for cell developers, materials suppliers, battery users, and even recyclers. IDTechEx Technology Analyst shares more on how valuable data can finally be used to its full effect.

Upcoming Webinar on Sustainability for Data Centers

Thursday 20 February 2025 - Data Center Energy Use Exceeds Sweden's Annual Consumption, Driving Demand for Sustainable Technologies; Energy consumption overview; Regional regulations and hyperscalers' actions and targets; Scope 2: Power generation technology benchmarking and cost analysis; Scope 2: Energy efficiency trend of data center IT, thermal and electrical components; Scope 3 decarbonization technologies; Market size forecast of carbon-free energy for data center and future opportunities

Sustainable Aviation Fuel - IDTechEx Explores Bio and e-Fuels

Biofuels and e-fuels have been on the rise as many sectors worldwide aim to increase sustainability, with traditional aviation using fossil-based jet fuel contributing around 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions. Conventional aviation fuel (Jet A-1) can now be blended with or replaced by new sustainable fuel derived from biomass or electricity. The main advantage of these replacement fuels is repurposing waste products from other industries into useful products, with SAF reducing flight emissions from its production to end use, anywhere from 30% to 90% in best-case scenarios.

Sony Semiconductor Solutions: Edge AI Image Sensors

Sony has developed an edge AI image sensor for image classification, object detection, and semantic image segmentation on endpoint devices. Sony's IMX500 sensor has a stacked sensor structure combining an image sensor with a digital signal processor and dedicated on-chip SRAM to enable high-speed edge AI processing. IDTechEx spoke with Hiroki Yamano, Senior Business Planner at Sony Semiconductor Solutions, at NEPCON Japan 2025.

Quantum Sensing Technologies, Applications, and Long-term Market Sizes

Innovation map overview of quantum sensing technologies, applications, and long-term market sizes.

Is the Quantum Computing Market Going Through a Teenage Phase?

Quantum computing is growing closer to realizing its full potential, pipe dreams have become tangible five-year plans, and more and more players are earning their own money for the first time. Finally, time will pass quicker than many appreciate in the years ahead - don't blink and miss the quantum computing market grow up, and the chance to leverage its disruptive potential at maturity.

John Deere: Electric & Autonomous Tractors

John Deere is a leading global producer of construction, agriculture, and mining equipment - with tractors historically being its key product. IDTechEx spoke to John Deere at CES 2025 regarding its most recent developments in the electrification and automation of its tractors.

BYD Auto

BYD Auto is a Chinese automotive subsidiary of the BYD Company. It is a global leader in electric car sales and battery technology, with sales of over 4 million cars in 2024.

Which Fire Protection Material to Choose for an EV Battery

Electric vehicle (EV) sales continued to increase in 2024, admittedly with some significant regional disparity, but IDTechEx found that globally, EV sales increased 24% in 2024 over 2023. Despite the fact that most data shows EV fires are less common than combustion engine vehicles, safety cannot be overlooked in any rate of occurrence. This article aims to discuss some of the key factors and some of the potential materials that EV battery designers may consider.

Aerogel Technologies

Aerogel Technologies is a US-based manufacturer of aerogels, with a key focus on its polymer aerogel range, Airloy, using a roll-to-roll continuous process.

iMoto: Electric Two-Wheelers

iMoto is an Indonesian startup founded in 2021 producing electric two-wheelers (E2Ws). This profile will cover the company's products and the role of Southeast Asia in the expanding global E2W market.

The Future eLCV Market

Sales of electric light commercial vehicles (eLCVs) are expected to surge from just under 500,000 in 2024 to over 11 million by 2045. In this short video, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Pranav Jaswani provides key insights into this rapidly expanding industry on the brink of widespread adoption.

Photonic Integrated Circuit Market to Surpass US$50B by 2035

The market for Silicon Photonics and PICs is experiencing robust growth, driven by the surge in AI and datacom transceiver demand. IDTechEx forecasts that PIC technology will continue to dominate the high-performance transceiver market, further solidifying its position as a critical component in the modern technological landscape.

Corn Next

Corn Next is a biomaterials company that developed CornNext-17, a fully biodegradable material made from corn starch, water, and enzymes. Designed to replace disposable plastics, it decomposes naturally within 30 days. The company aims to reduce plastic pollution by providing sustainable alternatives without requiring specialized recycling processes.

Westwood Aerogel

Westwood Aerogel is a spin-out from UCLA. It is using its patent-pending ambient pressure drying process to scale aerogel manufacturing.

IDTechEx Explores Sustainable Plastics In The Automotive Industry

The automotive industry is under increasing scrutiny to improve sustainability, and one of the key approaches to addressing this is sustainable material choice. The automotive sector uses over 14 million tonnes of plastics in passenger automotive vehicles each year.