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Bacteria-produced nanowires

UMass Amherst Research Team discovers new conducting properties of bacteria-produced nanowires

Innovative Australian project offers solar manufacturing opportunity

Australia's world-leading solar researchers and industry have partnered to develop new ways of generating zero-emissions electricity using a printing machine to produce solar cells.

Wireless sensor networks: creating a $2 billion market in 2021

According to IDTechEx research in the new report Wireless Sensor Networks 2011-2021, WSN will grow rapidly from $0.45 billion in 2011 to $2 billion in 2021.

NASA's solar-powered spacecraft sets off for Jupiter

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 9:25 a.m. PDT (12:25 p.m. EDT) Friday to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter.

Dream screens from graphene

Technology developed at Rice could revolutionize touch-screen displays.

Solar Gard attracts great interest

The recent increase in range of typical pure electric vehicles from 160 km/100 miles to 240 km/150 miles is due to many small but significant advances and there are many more of these to come. One is solar protection.

InkTec opens dedicated production facility for Thinfilm Memory

Thinfilm's partner InkTec upgrades and expands their production capacity.

Kinetic energy harvester for small devices

A graduate product designer based in the UK, Joe Mattley, has designed Freecharge which is a kinetic energy charger designed to power products such as mobile phones and digital cameras.

Toyota builds across the EV market

Toyota leverages technology across more of the electric vehicle market.

Photovoltaics powered by heat - no sunlight required

A new photovoltaic energy-conversion system developed at MIT can be powered solely by heat, generating electricity with no sunlight at all.

Infrastructure solutions for unlimited electric mobility

The ubitricity Mobile Metering concept rethinks infrastructure solutions for electric vehicles and will revolutionize EV charging. Rather than installing metering and communication technology inside every single charging point, metering and billing is processed by electronics inside the car or the charging cable. Charging points are reduced to simple and highly cost-efficient system sockets that can be installed easily and enable users to charge power from renewable energies wherever they chose to park their EV - at home, at work or in other private or public parking spaces.

Innovative transparent flexible battery

Stanford transparent batteries: seeing straight through to the future?

U.S.A Chevrolet dealerships receive solar-powered charging stations

Chevrolet is harnessing the power of the sun by installing solar-powered electric charging stations at dealerships in North America.

New Energy generates electricity on flexible plastic

New Energy Technologies, Inc. has announced that researchers developing its SolarWindow™ technology, capable of generating electricity on see-through glass, have now successfully generated electricity on flexible plastic using the Company's 'spray-on' coating methods - an important technical achievement necessary for the development of electricity-generating window films.

First Solar achieves 17.3% efficiency

A significant milestone has been achieved by First Solar, who have set a new world record for cadmium-telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell efficiency, reaching 17.3 percent with a test cell constructed using commercial-scale manufacturing equipment and materials.

Dynamic wireless charging of racing cars

On July 27 2011, HaloIPT announced a new strategic partnership with Drayson Racing Technologies, the green R&D racing organization. It was founded by Lord Drayson, former UK Minister for Science and Innovation. The partnership intends to use HaloIPT's unique wireless charging technology to power high-performance cars as they race around the track. This partnership, which develops and races green motorsport technology, including electric vehicles (EV), aims to pioneer the deployment of dynamic (in-motion) charging of zero emission electric vehicles. The racing cars, fitted with HaloIPT technology, will pick up power wirelessly from transmitters buried under the surface of the road or race track; transferring power directly to the vehicle's electric battery, ensuring that the vehicle receives constant charging on the move.

Energy harvesting markets analysed: a $4.4 Billion Market in 2021

In 2011, IDTechEx research finds that the amount of money spent on energy harvesters will be $0.7Bn, with several hundred developers involved throughout the value chain.

Soft memory device opens door to new biocompatible electronics

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a memory device that is soft and functions well in wet environments - opening the door to a new generation of biocompatible electronic devices.

New emphasis at the largest printed electronics event

This year's Printed Electronics USA will take place in Santa Clara on November 30 and December 1. Analysts IDTechEx who organise the largest event on the subject, have paid a lot of attention once more to the end user streams. Their presence and contributions to the latest instalment of the successful series of events will be appropriate to the new direction of this burgeoning industry.

DLR Airbus A320 ATRA taxiing with fuel cell-powered nose wheel

Back in March IDTechEx reported on the work of DLR who had recently finished development on a fuel cell-powered electric nose wheel. The system is now out of the laboratory and onto the runway for real-world testing in collaboration with Airbus.