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ITO alternative leaders will emerge despite the pending consolidation

At IDTechEx we have been closely following and analysing the transparent conductive film market for the past five years.

Quad Industries is new licensee for manufacturing Enfucell SoftBattery

Enfucell is pleased to announce a new license partnership with Quad Industries

Wearable sensors for bees

Thousands of honey bees in Australia are being fitted with tiny sensors as part of a world-first research program to monitor the insects and their environment using a technique known as 'swarm sensing'.

Green lights for self-driving vehicle prototypes

When Google started designing the world's first fully self-driving vehicle, their goal was a vehicle that could shoulder the entire burden of driving.

Growth in High-powered Energy Harvesting

The new reality is that energy harvesting - creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed, using ambient energy - is now one subject from microwatts for wireless sensors to tens of kilowatts for vehicles and buildings. This is because it increasingly involves the same technologies, locations and companies. One structure, such as a remote building, will tend to use a range of energy harvesting from very low power EH for wireless sensors to very high power EH for charging those newly announced Tesla house batteries.

Carbon nanotube transparent conductive film with long-term stability

AIST, and others have developed a technology that dramatically improves the long-term stability of the conductivity of transparent conductive films that use carbon nanotubes.

Materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy

We may be able to design materials that mimic nature's machinery to harvest solar energy, or manipulate light for telecommunications applications, or design novel catalysts for speeding up a variety of chemical reactions.

Welsh Government invests 13 million euros of EU funds in marine energy

The EU funds will support a marine energy project in Holyhead Wales aiming to support an expansion of marine energy in Wales and UK.

Manufacturing smart garments

Proof of concept that allows traditional garment manufacturers to develop smart or connected textiles by easily integrating with the workspace and workflow used in traditional garment production.

Full colour organic light emitting diodes with photoresist technology

FUJIFILM Corporation and imec have demonstrated full-color organic light-emitting diodes by using their jointly-developed photoresist technology for organic semiconductors, a technology that enables submicron patterning.

Swelling magnets to energise the world

A new class of magnets that expand their volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered by researchers.

Toppan Printing

Toppan Printing is a large Japanese printing company founded over a century ago. It has 1.5 trillion Japanese yen sales and employs 15,000 persons globally. The company has developed an alternative to ITO as a transparent conductive film (TCF) - it uses copper mesh, which it says is suitable for screen sizes ranging from 15" to 55". This has a sheet resistance of 0.01Ohms/square.

Perpetuus Carbon Technologies Limited

Perpetuus Advanced Materials is commercializing plasma-exfoliated graphene nanoplatellets or nano-graphite, as they put it. The versatility of their production method is in its ability to tune amorphousity, surface area and functionalisation. It claims to be operating an independently-verified production capacity of >100 tpa.

GSK - an end user view on Wearable Technology and Sensors

The Platform Technology & Science division of GSK is a group of around 3000 people that provides technology innovation support to the three main sections of GSK: consumer, pharmaceutical and vaccines. Within the PTS, the Innovation PTS division (iPTS) is a group of 25-30 staff looking for novel science to support the main divisions. Luis said that the majority of work they do is purely investigational, and only select projects will ever see application in other parts of the company.

The industrialisation of truly flexible AMOLED displays

Building on a series of flexible AMOLED demonstrators made previously by FlexEnable, the two companies have now manufactured a glass-free, full-colour, flexible AMOLED display based on FlexEnable's low-temperature process for plastic transistors and CPT's RGB OLED technology.

Development of new microtimber using 3D printing

Researchers are proposing to use Macadamia shells as a basic element in a new Microtimber, made using pioneering 3D-printing technology.

Researchers measure thermoelectric behavior by 'Tinkertoy' materials

Researchers have made the first measurements of thermoelectric behavior by a nanoporous metal-organic framework, a development that could lead to an entirely new class of materials for such applications as cooling computer chips and cameras and energy harvesting.

Fuel cell electric vehicles 2015-2030: surprises continue

This article shares some of the findings of the new IDTechEx Research report, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air and some of what will be discussed in the forthcoming IDTechEx webinar on 9th June.

Connected clothes offer new possibilities

Project Jacquard makes it possible to weave touch and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms.

Making the cleanest cars affordable

The California Air Resource Board is initiating a pilot project in the Greater Los Angeles area and San Joaquin Valley to help low-income individuals and families get rid of old polluting vehicles and purchase much cleaner and more fuel-efficient cars.