13 Oct 2022

New Technique Charges EV Battery in Just 10 Minutes
A breakthrough in electric vehicle battery design has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical EV battery. The record-breaking combination of a shorter charge time and more energy acquired for longer travel range was announced in the journal Nature.
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13 Oct 2022

Citrine Informatics
Citrine Informatics provides a materials/chemicals informatics platform which is deployed to customers as a cloud service. The company believes it leads on training on small datasets. IDTechEx spoke to Citrine Informatics' CEO and Co-founder Greg Mulholland and Director of Marketing Joshua Tappan.
12 Oct 2022

Advanced Semiconductor Packaging Technologies in Data Centers
In this article, IDTechEx will cover the growth drivers of advanced semiconductor packaging technologies on data center applications, as well as give several examples of cutting-edge commercial server products that adopt advanced semiconductor packaging technologies. The content of this article is from IDTechEx's newly released market research report, "Advanced semiconductor packaging 2022-2033".
12 Oct 2022

Stable Electrodes for Long-Term, Wearable Brain-Machine Interface
Researchers have developed an electroencefalography electrode that patients wear on their head to monitor brain activity. The EEG electrodes system could act as a brain-computer interface, which can be controlled by brain signals to help repair damage to the brain caused by strokes and other disorders.
12 Oct 2022

Renewable Energy Investments Must Triple by 2050
In its new report the World Meteorological Organization said that in order to put the world on a net zero trajectory by 2050, that renewable energy investments must triple by then.
12 Oct 2022

Self-Teaching AI Uses Pathology Images to Diagnose Rare Diseases
Rare diseases are often difficult to diagnose and predicting the best course of treatment can be challenging for clinicians. Investigators have developed a deep learning algorithm that can teach itself to learn features which can then be used to find similar cases in large pathology image repositories.
12 Oct 2022

Broccoli Gas: A Better Way to Find Life in Space
Broccoli, along with many other plants and microorganisms, emit gases to help them expel toxins. Scientists believe these gases could provide compelling evidence of life on other planets.
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12 Oct 2022

Bio-based Synthetic Textiles
Today, synthetic fabrics make up about 60% of overall apparel and continue to grow at a faster rate of demand than cotton, wool, hemp, and other natural fibers. The low cost of synthetic polymers, as well as favorable properties such as waterproofing or stretch, keep synthetic fabrics well in demand. But almost all synthetic fabrics are made from petroleum, so it is a key target for the transition to a circular economy. One significant approach for this is to substitute petroleum feedstock for bio-based feedstock to make the same synthetic fabrics without a trade-off in the properties that make synthetics such an asset for the textiles industry. In this premium article, IDTechEx looks at the most prevalent classes of synthetic textiles for apparel, polyesters, nylon (polyamides), polyurethanes (including spandex), and acrylic, and discusses the efforts being made to transition these materials to bio-based.
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11 Oct 2022

Cosinuss
Cosinuss develops in-ear vital sign monitoring devices.
11 Oct 2022

Newly Developed Smart Polymers Have Life-Like Properties
Although just cute little creatures at first glance, the microscopic geckos and octopuses fabricated by 3D laser printing could open up new opportunities in fields such as microrobotics or biomedicine. The printed microstructures are made from novel materials - known as smart polymers - whose size and mechanical properties can be tuned on demand and with high precision.
11 Oct 2022

The Battery that Runs 630 km on a Single Charge
The number of newly registered electric vehicles in Korea surpassed 100,000 units last year alone. Norway is the only other country to match such numbers. The core materials that determine the battery life and charging speed of now commonly seen EVs are anode materials. Korea's domestic battery industry has been committed to finding revolutionary ways to increase the battery capacity by introducing new technologies or other anode materials. But what if we get rid of anode materials altogether?
11 Oct 2022

Electronic Skin Allows for Long-Term Attachment with no Discomfort
Researchers have succeeded in developing the world's first ultrathin and breathable nanomesh organic field-effect transistor that can be applied to electronic skin devices. Nanomesh OFET, in combination with various sensors, is expected to enable direct measurement of physiological data from the skin surface and optimize data processing.
11 Oct 2022

The Market for Wearable Sensors Is Expanding, Says IDTechEx
The latest wearable sensors report from IDTechEx, "Wearable Sensors 2023-2033", breaks down the complex landscape of sensor types, biometrics, and form factors. IDTechEx highlights the key opportunities and challenges for each sensor type to achieve commercial success across the next ten years.
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10 Oct 2022

Mobileye: Improving ADAS with REM
Mobileye was founded in 1999 and is now one of the largest suppliers of chips in the automotive industry. It has three major divisions, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomous vehicles (AV), and data.
At ITS World Congress 2022, IDTechEx spoke to Mobileye about its Mobileye Roadbook.
10 Oct 2022

Seaweed-Based Battery Powers Confidence in Sustainable Energy Storage
A research team uses nanomaterials made from seaweed to create a strong battery separator, paving the way for greener and more efficient energy storage.
10 Oct 2022

Device Converts the Slightest Breeze into Electricity
Scientists have developed a low-cost device that can harness energy from wind as gentle as a light breeze and store it as electricity.
10 Oct 2022

New IDTechEx Report Explores Carbon Dioxide Removal Market Potential
The Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) sector has experienced growing corporate interest and swift development, with record investments over the past year in technologies that draw carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere.
10 Oct 2022

Photovoltaic Power Generation over 1000 Hours at Over 20% Efficiency
Scientists have developed a durable 1-cm2 perovskite solar cell capable of generating electricity for more than 1,000 continuous hours at a photoelectric conversion efficiency (i.e., power generation efficiency) of more than 20% in exposure to sunlight. Because this solar cell can be fabricated on the surface of a plastic material at approximately 100°C, this technique may be used to develop light, versatile solar cells.
10 Oct 2022

Chemists Make Strides Toward a Marijuana Breath Analyzer
Chemists are now a step closer to their goal of developing a handheld tool similar to an alcohol Breathalyzer that can detect THC on a person's breath after they've smoked marijuana.
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10 Oct 2022

Amnovis Selects 3D Systems' Dual Laser Direct Metal Printing Solution
3D Systems announced that Amnovis has incorporated 3D Systems' DMP Flex 350 Dual into its contract manufacturing workflow. This next-generation technology includes two lasers, which enables Amnovis to produce high-quality, highly reliable end-use parts for a variety of industrial and medical device applications.