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Economical process for micro energy harvesting

Researchers have developed a process for the economical production of piezoelectric materials.

Wearable Technology Live! USA 2014

The wearable ecosystem assembles at IDTechEx's co-located Santa Clara events Santa Clara, CA, USA and Cambridge, UK - Oct. 27, 2014.

Detroit Electric reveals striking fastback design

The final exterior design of Detroit Electric's all-new, pure electric two-seater sport scar, the SP:01, has been revealed as the company gears up for production.

The graphene industry finds new market opportunities in California

The 5th IDTechEx conference and tradeshow on graphene and 2D materials- Graphene and 2D Materials LIVE! - has become the annual meeting place for the global graphene industry in California.

Heliatek announces largest BIOPV facade installation

Heliatek has announced the largest BIOPV - Building Integrated OPV - installation of its kind.

Highlights from the RFID in Retail Event

IDTechEx presented at the invitation-only RFID in Retail conference in Paris in October, hosted by IC provider NXP. This article provides some of the highlights from the event.

What is the Ultimate Limit of Supercapacitors?

Rapidly improving supercapacitors have been replacing lithium-ion batteries in many applications. The construction of supercapacitors is far simpler than batteries and there is every reason why the expensively-prepared, inherently low-cost supercapacitor materials and assembly technology should not continue to drop sharply in cost.

New sensors for wearables and IoT at Printed Electronics USA 2014

At the 2014 edition of Printed Electronics USA, attendees will learn about disruptive sensor technologies that will enable new applications for wearable devices and the Internet of Things.

Robots to ResQu rainforests from purple plague

Two Project ResQu helicopters developed by CSIRO completed trial flights near Cairns, locating weeds like the dreaded 'purple plague', or Miconia calvescens, faster and more reliably than ever.

World's fastest manufacture of battery electrodes

New world record: Scientists increased the manufacturing speed of electrode foils coated batch-wise by a factor of three - to 100 meters per minute.

KELK

Thermoelectrics have made large 1.5 kW ones for Komatsu and other construction machines and the like, to harvest heat from the diesel engines. The main bar to launching them for sale is cost

Visit to ITRI Taiwan 15 October 2014

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a nonprofit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical services. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan's economy from a labor-intensive industry to a high-tech industry. Numerous well-known, high-tech companies in Taiwan, such as leaders in the semiconductor industry TSMC and UMC, can trace their origins to ITRI. IDTechEx visited ITRI and this is our report.

Smart sensors for better and safer living

Researchers claim a new system of mobile, floatable sensing, called Lagrangian sensing, is very promising for large scale sensing, or on-demand sensing, as it requires minimal infrastructure.

Super stable garnet ceramics ideal for high-energy lithium batteries

Scientists have discovered exceptional properties in a garnet material that could enable development of higher-energy battery designs.

Structural electronics forecast expanded to $97bn by 2025

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies this century.

Aleees

Aleees is a well-equipped company in Taiwan that started by making LFP-NCO (lithium iron phosphate nano co-crystalline compound not nickel cobalt oxide) cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. Now the company is integrated vertically and develops electric buses as well.

World's thinnest electric generator

Researchers report that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.

World's largest battery electric vehicle

BYD Motors has unveiled The Lancaster eBus, a break-through, 60-foot, articulated battery-electric bus that can drive 170+ miles with a passenger load of up to 120 passengers, and was in development for almost two years.

Arkema, CEA and Arjowiggins Creative Papers collaborative innovation

The Open Innovation for Sensors and Actuators initiative pools all three players together in substrate, materials, and integration and design technologies, with a view to offering a comprehensive ecosystem to end-users eager to demonstrate new applications and develop new products in printed electronics.

Novel aerosol deposition technology for solar applications

Beneq and Royal DSM are working together developing and commercializing a completely new and superior aerosol deposition technology for AR coatings for solar glass applications.