11 Sep 2014

Nevada selected as official site for Tesla battery gigafactory
Nevada has been selected as the official site for the Tesla Gigafactory.
3 Sep 2014

Niche applications to help OLED lighting market reach $1.9 billion
In the new report OLED Lighting Opportunities 2014-2025: Forecasts, Technologies, Players External Link IDTechEx has assessed the technology and markets for OLEDs in the lighting sector. We find that the market will be slow to take off until 2019-20 but will reach $1.9 billion in 2025.
13 Aug 2014

Progress with Printed Electronics
In this article we focus on the current status of the main printed electronics technologies for components in consumer goods and healthcare applications, providing for each one market drivers, case studies and key suppliers, cost structures and challenges.
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12 Aug 2014

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc announces $2.7 million new financing
SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc has received $2.7 million in new financing in two transactions.
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11 Aug 2014

Raymor Industries, Inc.
Raymor Nanotech is a division of the Raymor Industries, a Canadian private company located near the Montreal area. It initially started supplying spherical titanium powdres synthesized using a plasma atomisaiton method. In 2010 it started work on single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) and the titanium activity has since been acquired (dec 2013) by Arcam for a reported fee of $35 million. Raymor has also acquired NanoIntegris (operating as a subsidiary) which brings value in the post processing steps of CNT production, i.e., purifying and separating metallic and semiconducting ones.
5 Aug 2014

Panasonic and Tesla sign agreement for the Gigafactory
Panasonic Corporation and Tesla Motors, Inc. have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the Gigafactory.
5 Aug 2014

INCJ, JDI, Sony and Panasonic announce the establishment of JOLED Inc
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, Japan Display Inc, Sony Corporation and Panasonic Corporation have announced that they have executed a definitive agreement to establish a new company, JOLED Inc, to integrate Sony and Panasonic's R&D functions for organic light-emitting diode display panels.
21 Jul 2014

Can the world's most promising electric-car battery be saved?
Over the last half-dozen years, a swarm of companies from around the world including General Motors has snapped up licenses for a lithium-ion electrode that promised to deliver the next big step in making electric cars competitive with conventional vehicles.
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12 Jul 2014

Kateeva
7 Jul 2014

Outlook on the OLED TV market
Remember CES back in January. There was a widespread sentiment that LG was winning the OLED TV battle against Samsung. How did LG take the lead in OLED TV? And what does it mean for the other TV panel manufacturers?
16 Jun 2014

Record-breaking solar cell points the way to cheaper power
Panasonic reveals a design that surpasses a 20-year-old mark for solar cell efficiency.
3 Jun 2014

Highlights from a printed electronics conference
IDTechEx recently attended a Printed Electronics conference in Germany. IDTechEx analysts attended talks from a wide variety of companies. Here we include very brief highlights/summaries of the important points.
22 May 2014

Toyota Simplifies Priorities: Tesla Gets Lonely, Fisker unites
Toyota Motor, world number one in electric vehicles by a big margin, has long done the minimum with pure electric cars, saying that they remain unready for prime time due to cost and range. The rejection of pure electric cars further firmed up in May 2014.
28 Mar 2014

Half of li-ion battery business will be for hybrid and electric cars
Hybrid and pure electric cars will be much more than half of the value of this market by the end of the decade. About 70% of the relatively small number of manufacturers of these have committed to only three suppliers over the next three years. However, everything about Li-ion is changing.
24 Mar 2014

Tesla's Battery Coup - Winners and Losers
Ground breaking news were announced by Tesla at the end of February 2014. This is their intention to build a lithium battery manufacturing plant with a capacity of 35 GWh/year by 2020, this is the so called "Gigafactory". Read this article in order to understand what is the impact of these plans to the whole industry.
21 Mar 2014

Tesla battery plant announcement lights up graphite space
Tesla Motors sent shock waves through a myriad of different industries as it announced that, along with partner Panasonic, the Company would build a Lithium Ion battery factory by 2017.
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17 Mar 2014

Paper Battery Company Inc
6 Jan 2014

Printed Electronics Technology, Supplier and Case Study Snapshot
The following article summarizes the current status of the main printed electronics technologies for components in consumer goods and healthcare applications, providing for each one market drivers, case studies and key suppliers, cost structures and challenges.
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16 Dec 2013

FUJIFILM
Fujifilm has been actively developing a flexible high barrier film and this profile focuses mainly on these activities.
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15 Dec 2013

Tesla Motors