Full profile interview
17 Jul 2015

Jenax
Jenax has been listed on KOSDAQ, South Korea's Stock Exchange, since 2002. Its main business is in the iron and steel industry. It started to diversify into flexible batteries around 2010 and showed its first flexible battery prototype in 2015 at CES in Las Vegas, USA and in the Wearable Expo in Tokyo, Japan.
Full profile interview
17 Jul 2015

Bess-tech
Bess-Tech is commercializing a technology to manufacture doped Si anodes for Li ion batteries. The difference with direct competitors is that the anode is a direct silicon carpet on current collectors, and is not supplied as a Si-C composite.
16 Jul 2015

Insight Forums Tokyo 2015 - Energy Harvesting and Energy Storage
These forums will both address the business and technologies involved - providing significant market data to allow you to understand these complex landscapes.
16 Jul 2015

Autonomous taxis would deliver significant benefits
Imagine a fleet of driverless taxis roaming your city, ready to pick you up and take you to your destination at a moment's notice. While this may seem fantastical, it may be only a matter of time before it becomes reality.
16 Jul 2015

First solar cell made of highly ordered molecular frameworks
Researchers have developed a material suited for photovoltaics.
15 Jul 2015

IDTechEx - Technology Insight Forums Tokyo 2015
IDTechEx will be back in Tokyo, Japan for their highly regarded series of Business Insight Forums.
15 Jul 2015

Graphene quality and pricing improves with maturing supply chain
Another in our series of articles on graphene.
15 Jul 2015

Development avenues for electrolyte and separator systems
Supercapacitors have seen tremendous improvements over the past decade, resulting in higher power density, higher energy density and lower prices. Electrodes have seen the most amount of attention, effort and development. In this article however, we focus instead on electrolytes and separators. Directions in electrolyte research are towards high voltage, more stable and greener solutions. Similarly, separators need to improve purity and high voltage stability. This is particularly true if paper separators are to succeed. We will discuss these developments in this article.
15 Jul 2015

Microsoft's WearDrive boosts wearables battery life
Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make wearable gadgets such as fitness trackers and smart watches go much longer between charges.
15 Jul 2015

BASF teams with Poietis on bioprinted skin project
BASF and Poietis have signed an agreement on research and development in cosmetics.
14 Jul 2015

Solar Impulse will not fly before the beginning of August
Following the record breaking oceanic flight of 5 days and 5 nights in a solar powered airplane, Solar Impulse will undergo maintenance repairs on the batteries due to damages brought about by over heating.
14 Jul 2015

Could black phosphorus be the next silicon?
As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research adds to evidence that black phosphorus could emerge as a strong candidate.
14 Jul 2015

U-M will test 3D-printed, autonomous 'SmartCarts'
A fleet of autonomous "SmartCarts"—high-tech, 3D-printed, low-speed electric vehicles—could one day zip around the University of Michigan's North Campus, taking students, professors and staff to class, labs and offices while also serving as one of the first test beds for on-demand autonomous transit.
External press release
14 Jul 2015

Arkema and Hydro-Québec set up a joint lab for lithium-ion batteries
Arkema and Hydro-Québec, through its subsidiary SCE France, have announced the signature of a partnership for the creation of a joint laboratory for research and development in the energy storage sector.
External press release
14 Jul 2015

Steady progress on perovskite photovoltaic module
Imec makes steady progress on perovskite photovoltaic module reaching a record 11 percent conversion efficiency.
External press release
14 Jul 2015

FlexEnable Chief Scientist awarded the 2015 Faraday medal for physics
FlexEnable proudly congratulates its Chief Scientist and board member, Professor Henning Sirringhaus, for receiving the 2015 Faraday medal.
14 Jul 2015

48V Vehicle Systems
48V systems are close to adoption in some new cars across the world partly to cope with the greater amount of electricity being stored and distributed. They are also becoming attractive for some of the more basic electric vehicles.
Full profile interview
14 Jul 2015

Infinite Corridor Technology
Infinite Corridor Technology (ICT) was set up in 2009 as an MIT spin-off. Its technology enables the creation of flexible and stretchable PBCs. Its initial target market was wearable devices that can be twisted and flexed. Its technology uses standard PBC technology on copper-clad Kapton and does not require any inherently flexible technology such as special plastic substrates or printed conductive inks.
13 Jul 2015

Campus will be living lab for interconnected sensors, gadgets
Carnegie Mellon University will turn its campus into a living laboratory for a Google-funded, multi-university expedition to create a robust platform that will enable Internet-connected sensors, gadgets and buildings to communicate with each other.
13 Jul 2015

Wearable technology to advance Parkinson's research
Intel is working with the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research on tech-enabled solutions to gather relevant data about PD, analyze that data to identify patterns and make generalizations, and use insights gained to accelerate the development of therapeutic breakthroughs, and potentially even a cure for the disease.