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Graphene OPV - or will T-shirts soon power cell phones

A flexible, printable material four or fewer atoms thick may be a high road to economical and convenient electrical power from the sun.

New method for mass producing graphene

New, simple technique enables large-scale production of graphene at room temperature; researchers use graphene to build chemical sensors, ultracapacitors

Germany catching up in electric vehicles

Germany is the strongest trading nation in Europe with the broadest and deepest automotive activity. However, the strategy of the German government and its automotive industry has been deeply flawed.

Charging EVs from bumps in the road - Part two

In our article More Power from Bumps in the Road we described work at MIT on energy harvesting shock absorbers where one such device on a truck can generate as much as one kilowatt electrodynamically.

SolarPrint with Fiat powers vehicles of the future

Irish energy technology company SolarPrint have entered into a partnership with Italian car manufacturing giant, Fiat, to develop solar panels that can be incorporated into automotives roof surface, as a means of generating alternative sources of energy for vehicles by converting light to power.

Nextreme expands services to solve thermal and power management issues

Nextreme Thermal Solutions has announced the expansion of its services offerings to include materials evaluation and characterization services.

US Department of Energy awards $92 million for energy research

New ARPA-E projects in 18 states will accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies, increase America's competitiveness and create jobs.

RFID in 2010: The New Dawn

IDTechEx has recently completed its survey of the global RFID industry which provides detailed market forecasts segmented in many different ways. In this article, report author Raghu Das summarizes some of the findings from the report "RFID Forecasts, Players & Opportunities 2011-2021".

Breakthrough in thin-film solar cells

Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have made a major breakthrough in their search for more efficient thin-film solar cells.

New molecular framework could lead to flexible solar cells

A team at Cornell University led by William Dichtel, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has discovered a simple process for building an organic molecular framework that could pave the way for the development of more economical, flexible and versatile solar cells.

Vibration harvesting batteries

Japan's Brother Industries has developed vibration-powered generators that could replace AA and AAA batteries.

Small wires make big connections for microelectronics

University of Illinois engineers have developed a novel direct-writing method for manufacturing metal interconnects that could shrink integrated circuits and expand microelectronics.

Charging infrastructure urgently needed

Over 100 manufacturers now offer pure electric on-road cars yet their combined sales remain much less than one company, Ingersoll Rand, achieves with pure electric golf cars. The main problem is that there is almost nowhere to plug them in.

Report on Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Event

Dr Peter Harrop reports back on the Hybrid and Electric Vehicles conference - Powertrain development, technology and trends

Major breakthrough could mean cheap OLED lighting

General Electric have announced that they have achieved 56 lumens-per-watt efficiency, proving that flexible, white OLED lighting devices can be made at low cost using "solution-coatable" materials

Military Electric Vehicles -part four - pure electric

The US Military is in the market for regular electric vehicles both as air base ground Support Equipment GSE that tows aircraft and fetches and carries to them and for general runabouts at military bases.

Piezoelectric fabric that can detect and produce sound

For the past decade, Yoel Fink, an associate professor of materials science and principal investigator at MIT's Research Lab of Electronics, has been working to develop fibers with ever more sophisticated properties, to enable fabrics that can interact with their environment.

Bayer MaterialScience joins Holst Centre flexible electronics research

Bayer MaterialScience AG and Holst Centre announce their partnership.

Electric Vehicles but not as we know them

The increasing variety of applications of electric vehicle technology.

DOE offers Abound Solar $400 million conditional loan guarantee

Abound Solar offered $400 million conditional commitment for loan guarantee by U.S. Department of Energy