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$160 million to be spent creating smart cities

The US Administration is announcing a new "Smart Cities" Initiative that will invest over $160 million in federal research and leverage more than 25 new technology collaborations to help local communities tackle key challenges such as reducing traffic congestion, fighting crime, fostering economic growth, managing the effects of a changing climate, and improving the delivery of city services.

Smart wearable translates sign language into English

A smart device that translates sign language while being worn on the wrist could bridge the communications gap between the deaf and those who don't know sign language.

Boosting efficiency of CIGS solar cells

CIGS solar cells are compound thin-film solar cells and the most established alternative to silicon solar cells. Solar conversion efficiencies of over 20% have recently been achieved in CIGS solar cells.

TOTO Europe (photocatalysis coating)

TOTO Europe is a subsidiary of TOTO (Japan). The Hydrotect technology is a self-cleaning coating for building materials such as ceramic tiles. When used on outdoor surfaces and exposed to ultraviolet light, either from the sun or an artificial source, the photocatalytic surface generates a reaction that cleans the material surface by decomposing organic and by oxidizing NOx into less harmful substance. It can also be used for indoor surfaces to reduce the spread of bacteria and eliminate bad odours.

Novel nanostructures for efficient long-range energy transport

The conversion of sunlight into electricity at low cost becomes increasingly important to meet the world's fast growing energy consumption. This task requires the development of new device concepts, in which particularly the transport of light-generated energy with minimal losses is a key aspect.

Progress towards vehicles that could run forever

Forget the obsession with driverless autonomous cars; energy independent vehicles are the megatrend. Electric land vehicles, boats, underwater craft and aircraft already exist that never plug in or refuel.

EnvisionTEC teams with Somos to develop high-performance materials

EnvisionTEC is proud to announce its collaboration with DSM's product brand Somos®, a world leader in additive manufacturing material development.

Graphite has unique properties

Following materials testing researchers have identified unique properties in Zenyatta Ventures Ltd Albany Graphite deposit that show positive attributes for use in multiple graphene applications.

Breakthrough RF energy harvester: Freevolt

Freevolt™ is a revolutionary energy harvesting technology that turns ambient radio frequency waves (RF) into usable electricity to charge low power electronic devices.

Single layer perovskite sheet rises to the fore

To the growing list of two-dimensional semiconductors, such as graphene, boron nitride, and molybdenum disulfide, whose unique electronic properties make them potential successors to silicon in future devices, you can now add hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites.

New cathode material for sodium ion batteries

An international team of scientists led by the inventor of the lithium ion battery has put forward a new cathode material for its potential successor, the sodium ion battery.

Wildcat Discovery Technologies

Wildcat Discovery Technologies is a materials R&D company located in San Diego, California. Wildcat is focused on the discovery of advanced materials for lithium-ion batteries, with secondary work on variety of other applications. Wildcat scientists use proprietary state-of-the-art high throughput technology to synthesize and test thousands of battery materials, each fully formulated and tested in actual cells. Wildcat collaborates with industry leaders around the world to develop promising new materials for new and promising rechargeable and primary battery technologies.

Nanowire quantum dot solar cells: oxide layer boosts performance

Attempts to improve solar cells can seem a balancing act, as optimising one variable can compromise another. The introduction of nanowires to colloidal quantum-dot solar cells aroused interest as a means of improving a limitation in the charge-collection layer thickness.

Printed Electronics Interface with Contactless 3D Gesture Recognition

Video interview with ISORG at Printed Electronics Europe.

Printing Electronics onto 3D Surfaces

Video interview with Neotech AMT at 3D Printing Europe.

Latest Li-ion batteries for forklifts

Navitas Systems LLC has announced that it is the first battery company to have developed a family of qualified heavy-duty lithium-ion batteries for Class I and Class II forklifts.

Wearable tracks your carbon footprint

In today's smart home, technologies can track how much energy a particular appliance like a refrigerator or television or hair dryer is gobbling up. What they don't typically show is which person in the house actually flicked the switch.

The EU and China sign a key partnership on 5G

The EU and China have signed a milestone agreement in the global race to develop 5G networks.

Meeting of Japan Energy Harvesting Consortium September 25 2015

As energy harvesting becomes a different and much more noticed subject, IDTechEx monitors the situation by intensive visits to many events, companies and universities. The meeting of the Japan Energy Harvesting Consortium September 2015 was certainly revealing.

China wants to dominate in 3D printing machines and materials

The conference at Euromold 2015 followed the theme of "Shaping the future of 3D printing globally". The first day was strongly focussed around the "globally" aspect, with speakers chosen from a wide variety of countries across the world and asked to speak about all the 3DP activities in their countries.