Full profile interview
8 Jul 2013

Saft Batteries
SAFT Batteries has products in a broad diverse portfolio of applications and markets, with the exception of cars and consumer products. The company's main business is in batteries, and not supercapacitors. However they have acquired a licence from ESMA/Elton to develop nickel supercapacitors based on aqueous electrolytes.
Full profile interview
8 Jul 2013

Arjowiggins Creative Papers
Arjowiggins is a manufacturer of creative and technical paper. The company has launched PowerCoat, a paper substrate product with unique features focussed for the printed electronics market.
Full profile interview
8 Jul 2013

Interlink Electronics
Printed sensors are not a novelty: force sensing resistors (FSR) is a proven technology and are manufactured by screen printing a functional polymer. Interlink Electronics was the first company to commercialize FSR and has more than 25 years of experience in manufacturing them. But there has been a lack of innovation. The company is now looking for new acquisitions and partnerships.
5 Jul 2013

Flashlight powered by body heat
A finalist in Google's online science fair, 15 year old Canadian Ann Makosinski, has created a flashlight that runs solely on the heat of the human hand.
5 Jul 2013

The light industrial & commercial EV business will exceed $20b by 2023
IDTechEx projects that 119,000 electric taxis will be sold giving a $1.8 billion global market. Most of the commercial electric vehicles, including the taxis, are and will be pure electric. That will even be true of large commercial vehicles, notably e-buses, set to exceed a $20 billion market as early as 2018 and dominated by demand in China.
External press release
5 Jul 2013

X-Wind, shows-off the future of distributed energy generation
X-Wind Power, manufacturer of the worlds most advanced vertical axis wind turbines, shows for the first time the potential of its technology, with the setting-up of a demonstration project with the UK's largest energy user, Network Rail.
4 Jul 2013

Photosynthesis to power devices
Nature has perfected the art of using the Sun to fuel growth. A team of international researchers looked into what is needed to recreate the process artificially.
4 Jul 2013

New Catalyst replaceable platinum for electric-automobiles
Researchers have developed a novel bio-inspired composite electrocatalyst outperforming platinum.
External press release
4 Jul 2013

Financing to develop metallic conductive ink technology
Liquid X™ Printed Metals, Inc., a Carnegie Mellon University start-up company, has announced the closing of a Series A financing round, and that it has named former Bayer Corporation President and CEO Greg Babe to serve as CEO of Liquid X™.
4 Jul 2013

World's first ebus powered by Iron-Phosphate battery with 250km range
The world's first electric bus powered by Iron-Phosphate battery is being trialled in the Polish Capital. MZA Warsaw, the municipal transport company, is testing the environmentally friendly bus from the Chinese auto giant BYD.
External press release
4 Jul 2013

Solliance and imec 9.7% efficiency with thin-film CZTSe solar cell
A CZTSe (Cu2ZnSnSe4)-based solar cell with 9.7 percent efficiency (1x1cm2, AM1.5G).
External press release
4 Jul 2013

EV Roadmap 6 Conference to be held in Portland, OR July 30-31
Come to beautiful Portland, Oregon for EV Roadmap 6: Drivers Take the Spotlight, a conference to be held July 30-31, 2013.
3 Jul 2013

International attendance for Printed Electronics Asia
The speakers at the unique event Printed Electronics Asia 2013 are flying in from the United States, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Portugal, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Belgium, France, South Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Korea. There are many speakers from research institutes and companies in Japan as well. Analysts IDTechEx, who are organising the event, have chosen best-in-class speakers from the whole world.
3 Jul 2013

Printing innovations allow 10-fold improvement in organic electronics
Through innovations to a printing process, researchers have made major improvements to organic electronics—a technology in demand for lightweight, low-cost solar cells, flexible electronic displays and tiny sensors.
External press release
3 Jul 2013

Award winning Powercoat paper at Printed Electronics Asia 2013
PowerCoat® is a remarkable new paper that facilitates the seamless integration of electronic functionality and printed graphics.
3 Jul 2013

Supercapacitor yarn: small fibres are powerful batteries
An international research team has developed a novel way to turn small fibres into powerful batteries with ultrafast charge and discharge rates.
2 Jul 2013

Conductive Inks- Markets and Analysis
Innovation in the field of nanotechnology has largely enabled a high level of product differentiation. Indeed, the market today contains graphene, carbon nanotubes, and silver and copper nanostructure (nanoparticle and nanowire) inks, all of which have one or two dimensions in the nanoscale.
2 Jul 2013

Carbon nanotube inks to drive innovation
Linde's carbon nanotube inks can be used to manufacture completely new technologies, such as a smartphone with a screen that rolls up like a window shade and a see-through GPS device embedded in the windshield of a car.
External press release
2 Jul 2013

Breakthough graphene inks to accelerate graphene applications
Graphene based inks with properties that quickly enable its customers to use graphene in a wide range of applications
2 Jul 2013

Solar power heads in a new direction: thinner
Most efforts at improving solar cells have focused on increasing the efficiency of their energy conversion, or on lowering the cost of manufacturing. But now researchers are opening another avenue for improvement, aiming to produce the thinnest and most lightweight solar panels possible.