Advanced Materials

Available as a suite of premium and high-performing stretchable electronic inks and flexible substrates, Intexar is seamlessly embedded directly onto fabric using standard apparel manufacturing processes to create thin, form-fitting circuits.

Researchers have developed a new type of user-interactive electronic skin, with a colour change perceptible to the human eye, and achieved with a much-reduced level of strain. Their results could have applications in robotics, prosthetics and wearable technology.

Specialty Materials Inc are manufacturers of boron and silicon carbide monofilaments. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Tom Foltz (Director of Business Development).

When it comes to efficiency, sometimes it helps to look to Mother Nature for advice - even in technology as advanced as printable, flexible electronics.

Dr Richard Collins et al. discuss composites and their uses in drones and enabling internet infrastructure.

The sprayed sensors can be networked, to render rich real-time information on the health status of the structure under monitoring.

Earlier this week, Immersion Corporation filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Fitbit. This is in addition to an existing lawsuit they have against Apple, also relating to the infringement of their patents in haptics, user interfaces and human-machine interfaces. In this article, James Hayward describes the background to these lawsuits within the broader context of the haptics industry.

CPS Technologies are manufacturers AlSiC MMC parts. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Dr Mark Occhionero (Senior Research Scientist).

Counterfeit products are a huge problem - from medicines to car parts, fake technology costs lives.

How to turn three niche industries into a pan-European competitive advantage

VTree is building a solar future base on three powerful concepts: solar energy, internet and great design.

Screens on even the newest phones and tablets can be hard to read outside in bright sunlight. Inspired by the nanostructures found on moth eyes, researchers have developed a new antireflection film that could keep people from having to run to the shade to look at their mobile devices.

Vodafone is a major player n the development of NB-IoT, a new method of communication for IoT devices. David Pugh met with John Tursley, manager at the NB-IoT open lab at Vodafone's head office in the UK.

Versatile, light-weight materials that are both strong and resilient are crucial for the development of flexible electronics, such as bendable tablets and wearable sensors.

Through the collaboration, Amplified will integrate Thinfilm's technology into beer coasters distributed on premise, enabling a direct mobile connection with consumers through the simple tap of a smartphone.

Nanotechnologists have used 3D laser printing to fabricate centimeter-sized objects of atomically thin graphene.

Earlier this month, IDTechEx analysts were invited to attend the second talk within the "From Discovery Science to Industrial Application" series, co-organised by the Cambridge Network and the Maxwell Centre.

The 21st-century commercialisation of the aerogel industry has been extensively discussed, but despite the excitement and huge potential, it is still a long way from plain sailing for the manufacturers.

Try bending your iPhone in half. Or roll up your tablet like a scroll. Or wrap a touchscreen TV around a pole. Didn't work out so well, did it? That's because the ceramic material used to make many of today's touchscreens has only two of three needed qualities: it's conductive, it's transparent—but it's not flexible.

Scientists have discovered a new chemical method that enables graphene to be incorporated into a wide range of applications while maintaining its ultra-fast electronics.