Advanced Materials

This premium article aims to give you a comprehensive analysis of the implementation of thermal interface materials for electric vehicles.

Researchers are drawing inspiration from mollusks to build lightweight, strong materials for wearable technology and more.

STANDARD GRAPHENE Inc celebrated the establishment of a water filtration plant at Lumbini, Nepal at the 10th School of the Um Hong-Gil Human Foundation.

For the first time, a team of researchers have formulated inks using the 2D material MXene, to produce 3D printed interdigitated electrodes.

This part VI of the article series, in which we provide our ten-year market forecasts for die attach materials, split by material technology, used in power modules of electric vehicles.

In order to create new and more efficient computers, medical devices, and other advanced technologies, researchers are turning to nanomaterials: materials manipulated on the scale of atoms or molecules that exhibit unique properties.

This is part V of our article series.

In the world of flexible electronics, printed electronics and In Mold Structural Electronics IMSE ™ the staple is metal patterning for basic purposes such as interconnects.

This part IV of our article series. In this part, we provide an overview of various power modules used in hybrid and pure electric vehicles today.

Extracts from presentation Osaka 23 July 2019. OPV and Perovskite Progress

This is part III of our series on metal sintering in power electronics (PE). In the last two parts, we considered (1) the key trends shaping the power electronic technology, and (2) the key existing and emerging approach seeking to replace Al wire bonding to boost thermal reliability in PE packages. In this article, we examine how and why metal sintering is emerging as an alternative to, or as the next generation of, die attach technology, seeking to replace solder in demanding applications.

Flexible and foldable high-performance barrier or encapsulation technology had long represented a technology challenge. The industry spent a decade and a half optimizing the approaches and the processes to achieve large-area production-grade results. The development however has not ended. Indeed, the commercial journey towards flexible and foldable devices is only just beginning. As such, the development of flexible barrier technologies still has far to travel.

Research has found how plastics commonly found in food packaging can be recycled to create new materials like wires for electricity - and could help to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the future.

From Day two we highlight a presentation on a new additive composite technology used initially to optimise drones and on a new way of more precisely tailoring porous materials for energy storage, energy conversion and other applications.

Presentation by Dr Peter Harrop to BIT Advanced Materials Conference Osaka Japan 23 July 2019

This substantial conference was the eighth in the BIT series with a wide range of topics addressed by a global speaker lineup and audience. Here we report aspects relevant to electric vehicles. Sir David Payne of Southampton University reported on silica in photonics where hollow fiber has some advantages over silica fiber now, but we deploy enough silica fiber every hour to encircle the earth.

This is the second part of our article series on the potential use of metal sintering as a die attach paste material in electric vehicle (EV) power electronics (PE).

This series of articles focuses on the potential use of metal sintering pastes and materials in electric vehicle power electronics (PE). In the first part of this series (this article), we consider the key trends shaping power electronics.

Graphene is the thinnest and strongest material known to humans. It's also flexible, transparent and conducts heat and electricity 10 times better than copper, making it ideal for anything from flexible nanoelectronics to better fuel cells.

Graphene-based conductive inks were introduced commercially as early as 2009. These graphene printing inks can contain a very wide range of graphene loading, from up to 40% for use as non-transparent conductive inks or as little as 0.1% to 1% in transparent conductive ink applications depending on the level of conductance required.