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Collaboration on electric supercharging technology

Controlled Power Technologies and Eminox have reached agreement to collaborate on the development of electric supercharging solutions to reduce fuel consumption.

LCD display with metal oxide semiconductor

Taiwanese display maker Chunghwa Picture Tubes has presented a 5.8 inch LCD display with iXsenic® metal oxide semiconductor coated with Gen 4 slot-die coating equipment.

Insight into the long-term stability of solar cells

A researcher has developed an experimental set-up in which the degradation of solar cells can be accelerated and the degradation monitored in real time. The experimental set-up has been well received in the photovoltaic world and is now being commercialised.

SMMT International Automotive Summit London 13 Oct 2015

This invitation only meeting ably introduced and summarised by Zeinab Badawi was mercifully free of PR speak.

E Ink discussing the Outdoor Signage Market

Video interview with E Ink at Printed Electronics Europe.

A new measure for wireless power transfer

Wireless power transfer has many promising applications, such as contactless powering, electric vehicles, and energy harvesting.

Wearable electronic health patches now cheaper and easier to make

A team of researchers has invented a method for producing inexpensive and high-performing wearable patches that can continuously monitor the body's vital signs for human health and performance tracking, potentially outperforming traditional monitoring tools such as cardiac event monitors.

3-D printing techniques help surgeons carve new ears

A collaboration between a University of Washington otolaryngology resident and bioengineering student has used 3-D printing to create a low-cost pediatric rib cartilage model that more closely resembles the feel of real cartilage and allows for realistic surgical practice.

See the Future of EV Technology

Formula One racing gave us the disk brake and more recently led to 60,000 rpm energy harvesting flywheels on London Buses. No one planned to make a London bus look like a Formula One racing car but the bus people saw their future in racing technology.

A $14bn market for advanced and post lithium-ion batteries in 2026

Whilst existing battery technologies such as lead acid and lithium-ion batteries will dominate the battery market in the following 10 years, advanced and post lithium-ion batteries given the right conditions can potentially take a considerable dent of about 10% of whole battery market by 2026.

Making batteries with portabello mushrooms

Can portabello mushrooms stop cell phone batteries from degrading over time?

Brilliant colors from environmentally friendly crystals

Quantum dots have made it possible to substantially increase color quality in LCD displays. However, these cadmium-based nanocrystals have proven to be harmful to the environment. Researchers are working together with an industry partner to develop a promising alternative: quantum dots based on indium phosphide.

3D printing and public policy

Although legal principles apply to 3D printing the same as they apply to any other technology, 3D printing has the unique potential to upset the legal status quo. It is the potential scale of 3D printing that may have profound effects on the law.

U-M opens world-class battery research lab

The open-access lab will provide space to build and test battery concepts while fully protecting the intellectual property of its users.

Orange opts for low power wide area IoT network

A part of its Essentials2020 strategy, IoT is a focus area for Orange, which plans to generate €600 million in revenue by 2018.

Impossible Objects

Impossible Objects' goal is to produce the world's strongest additively manufactured composite parts, rivalling hand layup materials, at injection moulding speeds. They are commercialising composite-based additive manufacturing technology (CBAM), which is a process that is different from most other additive manufacturing technologies.

Paraclete Energy Corp

Paraclete Energy Corp. is a company focused on silicon materials, originally focusing in photovoltaic cell technology the company decide to move to silicon anode materials. The company is commercializing a silicon-carbon composite with a surface modifier which they can double the capacity of standard graphite anodes whilst achieving 1000 cycles.

General Motors

IDTechEx reports Dr. Cai's work in Lithium Sulphur Batteries at General Motors Research and Development.Dr. Cai presented her work at the Battery Show in Novi Michigan in September 2015.

Powering lightweight devices and wearable electronics

IDTechEx report from a FlexTech Alliance workshop on novel & innovative power sources for lightweight devices and wearable electronics

Energy Harvesting USA Agenda Launched

Leaders cover high power and low power energy harvesting at the World's largest event on energy harvesting technologies and their application, Energy Harvesting & Storage USA, to be held in Santa Clara on November 18-19.