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Wearable Electronics: Here come the novelty peaks

Last Christmas and New Year the ideal present, for a girl of a certain age, from Japan to the UK was the Neurowear clip-on of floppy ears driven by brain waves to reflect your mood.

Internet of Things: The King has no clothes

Some use the term Internet of Things (IoT) to rename a large number of existing topics including the burgeoning world of cellphones, tablets and wearable connected devices, better referred to as the Internet of People (IoP).

Researchers develop all-carbon lithium battery

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new type of rechargeable lithium battery with components made entirely of carbon.

UK professor recognised for pioneering work on solar cells

Professor Henry Snaith has received the Materials Research Society's (MRS) prestigious Outstanding Young Investigator Award for his work on the development of perovskite-based solar cells.

Havyard to build hybrid battery Arctic PSV

Havyard has signed a contract for the construction of a Havyard 833 WE ICE platform supply vessel with Fafnir Offshore HF.

Sonoplot

Sonoplot manufactures Microplotter systems for research and prototyping. The dispensing mechanism used within the Microplotter systems is significantly different from inkjet technology. Rather than eject droplets over a distance to a surface, a Microplotter acts like a pen plotter, directly dispensing droplets or true continuous features. Microplotters are capable of printing a wide variety of materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, and living cells.

Quantum Materials Corporation (QTMM)

Quantum Materials Corp is using two proprietary disruptive technologies (1) a novel QD synthesis method licensed from Rice University, and (2) industrial scale production of QD using advanced flow chemistry microreactor technology to produce tetrapod quantum dots. QMC's strategy is to use its strengths in quantum dot synthesis and mass production, along with quantum dot printing abilities in creating new product paradigms in industrial and commercial applications.

Penetration of Second and Third Generation Range Extenders 2014-2024

Range extenders are those technologies in charge of supporting long distance travelling in electric vehicles. Through the transition from petrol cars to electric cars, there is a strong trend to reduce the internal combustion engine and increasingly delegate the traction to electric motors, however ICE will not become the only range extender technology. This article explores all range extender technologies.

Wearable electronics: success factors for 12,000 developers

Wearable electronics is a very fragmented industry when it comes to manufacturers. Even mature sub-sectors have no clear leaders in what will be a $70 billion plus business in 2024 with 12,000 developers and manufacturers as newly calculated by analysts IDTechEx.

Excitons observed in action for the first time

A quasiparticle called an exciton — responsible for the transfer of energy within devices such as solar cells, LEDs, and semiconductor circuits — has been understood theoretically for decades. But exciton movement within materials has never been directly observed.

Groundbreaking method to commercialize new material for electronics

Samsung Electronics announced a breakthrough synthesis method to speed the commercialization of graphene, a unique material ideally suited for electronic devices.

Europium complexes emit red light at record efficiency

Researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPC PAS) in Warsaw developed two new materials with record high luminescence efficiency.

BMW will use OLEDs in future vehicles

BMW has revealed that they will be fitting OLEDs in vehicles in the near future under the name BMW Organic Light.

Surprising material could play role in saving energy

Scientists have discovered a surprising material that is the best in the world at converting waste heat to useful electricity.

3D Bioprinting 2014-2024: Applications and Markets

3D bioprinting is an emerging set of technologies which sit at the interface between engineering and the biological and medical sciences. Each of the different approaches to 3D bioprinting share the common aim of generating 3-dimensional models of functional living tissue which can more accurately mimic that existing inside a living human (in vivo) than the current 2-dimensional tissue models commonly employed in a number of areas. The possible applications of 3D bioprinting are multiple and encompass the fields of drug discovery, tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, cosmetic/personal product testing, biosensors, dental and animal/food products. Ultimately, even potentially the printing of fully functional human organs for transplant may one day be possible. This broad range of possible uses of 3D bioprinting translates into a potentially very large opportunity, with addressable markets currently valued in excess of $150B.

Unlocking secrets of new solar material

A new solar material that has the same crystal structure as a mineral first found in the Ural Mountains in 1839 is shooting up the efficiency charts faster than almost anything researchers have seen before—and it is generating optimism that a less expensive way of using sunlight to generate electricity may be in our planet's future.

Small connection, big implications: Wiring up carbon-based electronics

Carbon-based nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene sheets, and nanoribbons are unique building blocks showing versatile nanomechanical and nanoelectronic properties.

Relieving electric vehicle range anxiety with improved batteries

Electric vehicles could travel farther and more renewable energy could be stored with lithium-sulfur batteries that use a unique powdery nanomaterial.

Linear Technology Corporation

Linear Technology Corporation (Linear) designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of standard high performance analog integrated circuits. Linear has been involved in the energy harvesting sector for almost five years now. Linear provides low power and highly efficient circuit solutions for energy harvesting devices.

Digilab Inc

Digilab Inc has a more than 40 years history in providing precision technologies to the life sciences sector. The company has been working on 3D bioprinting via development of its CellJet system since 2009 and the product has been on the market since 2011/12.