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ITO replacements: time to take-off or fizzle out

Over the past five years there have been a large number of companies developing Transparent Conductive Film (TCF) alternatives for Indium Tin Oxide (ITO). Including material providers and film providers, research and events firm IDTechEx has profiled almost 100 organizations working across more than 12 types of transparent conductive film technologies.

Smart Wristwatches: Something Missing

Almost no one wants to wear more than one wrist-mounted device. In fact there has been some trend towards young people abandoning wristwatches because all those functions exist in their carried mobile phone. The trend in mobile phones has been to larger ones. The idea of that functionality being on your wrist goes completely against the trend.

Beauty patch generates its power from sugar and air

A disposable beauty patch using microampere current to enhance absorption of skin care products will offer future consumers an opportunity to perform galvanic skin treatments at home.

Linkker starts EV bus production based on VISEDO drive train

Linkker Oy has announced that the manufacturing on their VISEDO electric drive train based bus will begin.

Portable electricity generator and water purifier

A portable device that purifies wastewater while generating electricity sustainably and affordably.

Research on use of fuel cells for commercial airliners

Airbus and South Africa's National Aerospace Centre are to jointly fund research by Hydrogen South Africa (HySA) into the application of fuel cells on airliners.

Scientists shed light on organic photovoltaic characteristics

Scientists have developed a method that allows the prediction of the current density-voltage curve of a photovoltaic device.

Dai Nippon Printing

Dai Nippon Printing (DNP) was founded in 1876 and is one of the largest printing companies in the world. They have started diversifying from traditional printing. This profile focuses on the low power paper-like display. The display is aimed for large sizes and is ideally segmented rather than full active matrix. It is reflective, meaning that it can be viewed most easily in bright light conditions, and has a viewing angle of 180 degrees.

Toppan Forms

Toppan Forms' background is in business forms and data print service fields. Since then the company has also developed a strong software solutions/business process offering, in addition to some electronics manufacture including smart cards and NC reader modules, and associated systems and software. The company covers a wide variety of information-based businesses, such as integration of printed matter and electronic documents, information media like RFID and IC, and development of products compatible with printed electronics technologies, including conductive ink.

London Graphene Ltd

London Graphene Limited (LGL) was established in 2013. It is a company that develops super-capacitor applications and graphene might be used in the actual supercapacitors. The first target application is in the mobile phone sector where the power requirements are low, while in the longer term they wish to also target power tools and EV.

Dr Peter Harrop to speak alongside Baroness Kramer at EV Summit

Dr Peter Harrop, Chairman of IDTechEx, will be speaking at the inaugural EV Summit at the University of Surrey, Guildford, on the 16th September; alongside the Baroness Kramer, Minister of State for Transport.

Thinfilm's suite of products expands Flextronics' platform

Thin Film Electronics ASA has announced a partnership with Flextronics. As part of the agreement, Flextronics will further expand its Open Innovation Platform with the addition of Thinfilm's award-winning technology, and offer Thinfilm's printed electronics products and solutions - including rewritable memory, integrated smart label systems, and printed NFC tags - to its customers.

Flexible solar cell woven into fabric

Wearable electronics are quickly becoming the fashion. And there could soon be a way to power those electronics indefinitely, now that scientists in China have developed a solar cell 'textile' that could be woven into clothes.

Shiny quantum dots brighten future of solar cells

Superior light-emitting properties of quantum dots can be applied in solar energy by helping more efficiently harvest sunlight.

What's in store? The future of batteries to be revealed

A current major topic of conversation within the advanced battery and electric vehicle industry is the future of battery technology and chemistries in the context of energy density, safety and cost.

Timesnano

Timesnano is a carbon nanotubes (CNT) manufacturer and the exclusive CNT provider in Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). It belongs to Chengdu Organic Chemicals Co. Ltd., Chinese Academy of Sciences (COCC). The company has a production capability of 1 tpa for single-walled carbon nanotubes and 200 tpa for multi-walled CNT. Main success has so far been in the Li ion battery industry.

Production of electric, hybrid vehicles surged by 280 percent in China

The latest news from China is that production of electric and hybrid vehicles surged by 280 percent year on year in the first seven months, mainly due to Chinese government incentives.

Niche applications to help OLED lighting market reach $1.9 billion

In the new report OLED Lighting Opportunities 2014-2025: Forecasts, Technologies, Players External Link IDTechEx has assessed the technology and markets for OLEDs in the lighting sector. We find that the market will be slow to take off until 2019-20 but will reach $1.9 billion in 2025.

Electricity from silk worm cocoons

ndian researchers say they have successfully generated electricity by using silk worm cocoons, which can be used to run low power electronic devices.

Robotics answer to bugs

A small band of NASA engineers and interns is about to begin testing a group of robots and related software that will show whether it's possible for autonomous machines to scurry about an alien world such as the moon searching for and gathering resources just as an ant colony does.