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Honda reuses rare earth metals from NiMH batteries for hybrid vehicles

Honda Motor Company has established a process to reuse rare earth metals extracted from nickel-metal hydride batteries for new nickel-metal hydride batteries to recycle precious resources.

Haptic feedback for touch screen devices

More and more consumer electronics devices feature a touch screen, which is already considered a must have for new devices. The next big topic will be haptic feedback solutions outperforming the poor vibration-based feedback that is the standard today. Adding haptic and sound feedback to touch screens using electro active polymers (EAPs) will be a featured topic at TCF LIVE Europe 2013 .

Solar-to-fuel roadmap for crystalline silicon

Bringing the concept of an "artificial leaf" closer to reality, a team of researchers at MIT has published a detailed analysis of all the factors that could limit the efficiency of such a system.

Xolve's graphene technology to change composite price/performance

Nanotechnology has long offered the promise of wonderful new materials and vast improvements in the essentials of modern life. To date, however, this technology has been accused of falling short of such potential. In spite of billions invested in nanomaterials research, no life-changing nano products have made their way to market.

£37m funding is set to benefit UK drivers of plug-in vehicles

UK drivers with plug-in vehicles are set to benefit from a £37 million funding package for home and on-street charging and for new charge points for people parking plug-in vehicles at railway stations.

Free Webinar: The Case for Energy Harvesting in Building Automation

IDTechEx and Dr Harry Zervos are delighted to invite you to join our free webinar on Wednesday 6 March at 10am GMT on "The Case for Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensors in Industrial and Building Automation"

Large-area, flexible EPD signage and world's first 42 inch prototype

TOPPAN Printing Co Ltd and Plastic Logic will together showcase the first large-area, flexible digital signage prototype, based on Plastic Logic's innovative flexible plastic displays in Tokyo.

What energy storage will power the iWatch and future smart watches?

With the emerging trend in multifunctional portable devices such as the smartphone, these devices are cannibalising those that previously performed single functions. This has been the case of simple digital cameras and now wrist watches.

Acquisition of PulseForge Photonic Curing Tool

The Center of Microelectronics of Provence, part of Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France, is pleased to announce it has acquired a PulseForge 3200 photonic curing tool from NovaCentrix as part of an ongoing collaboration with NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas), and CERADROP (Limoge, France).

First graphene-based additive for lithium-ion batteries

Cabot Corp has announced the launch of LITX™ G700, the company's first graphene-based additive for high energy density lithium-ion battery applications.

Activated graphene breaks record for low temperature storage of energy

Researchers have recently engineered a supercapacitor system that can operate efficiently at very low temperatures

Air Force supports study on nanopaper for electronics, aircraft

Like ordinary paper, nanopaper is made of wood pulp, but reconstructed at the nanoscale to enhance its properties.

Torqeedo wins innovation award at Miami Boat Show

Torqeedo's new 80 hp motor, Deep Blue, received the Innovation Award at the Miami International Boat Show February 14.

Highlights from the Electronic Display Conference, Nuremberg - Part 2

IDTechEx Research recently attended and presented at this event. The following are highlights from three companies - PolyIC, Atmel and Canatu - who presented on transparent conductive film (TCF) technology.

INTRASME Electric Vehicle Opportunity Workshop

IDTechEx is delighted to host the first INTRASME Electric Vehicle Opportunity Workshop 2013 which will now be a free session for a full day.

Researchers strain to improve electrical material and it's worth it

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign researchers have devised a method of making ferroelectric thin films with twice the strain, resulting in exceptional performance.

Nano beads on a string could advance battery technology

Chemists and materials scientists have designed a tiny silicon structure for batteries that can last through more charging cycles than previous designs did.

Ubiquity or obsolescence: how is E Ink's success story going to end?

Looking back at last year, it looks like 2012 was a tipping point for the e-reader market. Kindles and the likes were overshadowed by new models of tablet computers, resulting in a shift in consumer spending towards the tablets. But e-readers are still hugely popular, not least because of their long battery life and their low price. Since the holiday season, the must-have new feature has been the frontlight that enables reading in the dark, such as in the new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite. But take a closer look at this new generation of e-readers and you will find something striking: all of them use the same E Ink Pearl display, a technology that was released more than two years ago.

Rechargable battery can stretch, twist and bend

A stretchable lithium-ion battery - a flexible device capable of powering innovative stretchable electronics.

Electric aircraft transforming the whole industry

Electric aircraft are an idea whose time has come. Electrically propelled manned aircraft are selling profitably today in small numbers. They take the form of pure electric fixed wing microlights and motorised hang gliders. At the other extreme, airliners that have electric nosewheels have arrived making them electric vehicles when on the ground, hugely reducing noise and air pollution and making them independent of tugs. Yet that is only the beginning and the story is now rapidly unfolding across the whole industry.