6 Oct 2011

Artificial leaf makes fuel from sunlight
Solar cell bonded to recently developed catalyst can harness the sun, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
5 Oct 2011

Artificial leaf makes fuel from sunlight
Researchers led by MIT professor Daniel Nocera have produced an "artificial leaf": Like living leaves, the device can turn the energy of sunlight directly into a chemical fuel that can be stored and used later as an energy source.
23 Jun 2011

Winners of the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN Awards
At the Energy Harvesting & Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) awards dinner on June 21 in Munich, Germany, companies were recognized for making significant technical or commercial progress with these technologies.
10 May 2011

Intelligent compensating electronics for energy harvesters
Most of the effort in the energy harvesting industry so far has been on creating smaller, more efficient energy harvesters and low power electronics for wireless sensing.
11 Apr 2011

IDTechEx printed electronics Europe 2011 award winners
The annual printed electronics award winners were announced on April 5th at the IDTechEx Awards
16 Feb 2011

Energy harvesting network
The Energy Harvesting Network held its first one-day dissemination event on 7th February 2011 at the IET, Savoy Place, London. The Network is EPSRC-funded, and is for academia, industry and end-users of energy harvesting technology.
8 Feb 2011

New nanomaterials unlock new energy technologies
A new way of splitting layered materials to give atomically thin "nanosheets" has been discovered by a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funded research team.
24 Jan 2011

Battery box aims to solve rural African electricity problems
BBOXX is a young start-up intent on creating new and sustainable energy solutions in developing countries.
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24 Jan 2011

Energy Harvesting 2011
Interested in advances in energy harvesting research and development? Want to understand whether or not energy harvesting can address your particular applications? If so then the following event could be a great opportunity to find out more.
30 Dec 2010

Smart sensors monitor health of record-breaking expedition team
Telemetry technology is being used to monitor the health status of a team of explorers and scientists involved in a record-breaking expedition across the Antarctic.
8 Dec 2010

Printed Electronics USA 2010 Highlights
Last week the annual IDTechEx Printed Electronics event was held in the heart of Silicon Valley in California. Almost 1200 people attended the conference and 49,000 square foot exhibition.
3 Dec 2010

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2010 award winners
The fourth annual printed electronics winners were announced on Dec 1st at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Santa Clara, USA.
30 Nov 2010

1st Energy Harvesting Network: part 2
The afternoon session of the Human Power Workshop part of the 1st Energy Harvesting Network as discussed in Part 1 of this article, focused on Human Powering of Devices Outside of the Body.
15 Nov 2010

1st Energy Harvesting Network: part 1
The Human Power Workshop was part of the 1st Energy harvesting Network funded by the EPSRC to establish a network to contribute to the debate that will define a new generation of research challenges for Human Power Generation of devices.
8 Sep 2010

Solvay invests in Polyera to expand printed electronics development
Solvay is investing 4 million USD in a minority stake in Polyera Corporation, a materials developer for the printed electronics market.
30 Aug 2010

ACG's bodywork investigated as a storage battery for future cars
Advanced Composites Group Ltd (ACG), part of the Composites Division of Umeco plc, is engaged in a €3.4 million project with scientists to develop a new composite material which could revolutionise car design and manufacturing.
27 Aug 2010

Energy harvesting car structure
Advanced Composites Group Ltd, part of the Composites Division of Umeco plc, is engaged in a €3.4 million project with scientists to develop a new composite material which could revolutionise car design and manufacturing.
22 Jul 2010

SolarPrint with Fiat powers vehicles of the future
Irish energy technology company SolarPrint have entered into a partnership with Italian car manufacturing giant, Fiat, to develop solar panels that can be incorporated into automotives roof surface, as a means of generating alternative sources of energy for vehicles by converting light to power.