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O-Flexx Technologies gets € 6.7 million in funding

O-Flexx Technologies, based in Germany, develops and manufactures thermo-electric elements which enable the economic use of both low and high grade waste heat in a broad variety of applications.

Energy Harvesting & Storage and Wireless Sensor Networks, RTLS Preview

Only the IDTechEx "Energy Harvesting and Storage" events are paired with "Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS", covering the systems most in need of energy harvesting.

New nanocatalyst improves fuel cell technology

Long hampered by high manufacturing costs and durability issues, fuel cell technology could overcome those obstacles and take a significant step towards mainstream adoption thanks to a finding by a Texas A&M University chemical engineering professor.

Global automotive industry gets US$44 billion boost

Close to US$44 billion in economic stimulus funds and other incentives are being directed at the development of alternative fuel and advance technology vehicles according to a new analysis by the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Manufacturing Industry group.

3M partners with NREL to develop thin film solar energy technology

3M has teamed up with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop technology for the creation of low-cost thin-film photovoltaic modules. The $7.33 million partnership will also include concentrating solar power and biofuel technology development.

Si nanowire improves photovoltaics and batteries

We believe Illuminex has world-leading nanowire manufacturing capabilities in terms of breadth of materials, substrates, shapes and structures.

Silicon lithium battery breakthrough

Illuminex was founded by MIT PhD nanomaterial scientists and based in Lancaster PA . It is commercializing platform nanowire array process technology enabling innovative functional, smart, nano-structured materials

More power from fiber-based solar cells

Wake Forest University has received the first patent for a new solar cell technology that can double the energy production of today's flat cells at a fraction of the cost.

New news and analysis portal on Electric Vehicles launched

IDTechEx launches a new web journal - Electric Vehicles Research.

Breakthrough in thin film solar cell technology

Researchers have made an important breakthrough in the use of continuous flow microreactors to produce thin film absorbers for solar cells. This innovative technology could significantly reduce the cost of solar energy devices and reduce material waste.

DuPont delivers OLED technology scalable for Television

DuPont has achieved record performance in printed organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays, sufficient to enable future adoption of OLED television.

Wireless sensor networks - we are getting there

Suddenly tiny broad band vibration harvesters, transparent film photovoltaics and many other forms of harvesting become sufficient and the 20 year node looks possible.

365 Energy Installs First Coulomb ChargePoint

365 Energy has announced the installation of the first Coulomb ChargePoint® Networked Charging Stations in Dublin, Ireland.

Liquavista collaborates with Freescale

Freescale's embedded processors for eReader applications allow developers to trial Liquavista electrowetting displays with real applications

Decorative chandelier utilizing white OLED panels

A new decorative chandelier utilizing white OLED panels as the exclusive light source is unveiled.

New advances to be presented at Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS Europe

Further information is coming in on the remarkable advances and new analysis that will be announced at "Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS Europe" in Munich 26-27 May, which is twinned with "Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe".

Wireless Sensor Networks - We Are Getting There

Yet it is only a first step to small devices communicating without human involvement and without those radio masts and their expensive and vulnerable cabling. Remember that...

MIT and Eni open Solar Frontiers Center

MIT and Eni launch Solar Frontiers Center

National Platform for Electric Mobility gets off to successful start

Volkswagen Group calls for strong collective effort by German industry in the field of electric mobility.

Regenerative braking to power trains

South West Trains is the UK's biggest commuter rail network, running nearly 1700 train services a day in the south-west of England out of London Waterloo and carrying around 190 million passengers a year. The company is investing £2.2 million in a major regenerative braking project to save energy and make its trains greener.