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Mining and Concrete Industries Central to New Massive Energy Storage

The new need for massive amounts of delayed electricity will provide major new business for the mining and cement industries while helping them to clean up their act and generate new earning streams.

Nigeria: Solar Hybrid Minigrids in 6 Communities More Than 500 by 2026

In Nasarawa, the newly launched minigrids will provide clean, reliable and affordable electricity to about 5,000 households and 500 businesses in Doma and Lafia Local Government Areas. The six communities accessing electricity for the first time are Rukubi, Idadu and Igbabo in Doma LGA, and Kiguna, Akura, and Gidan Buba in Lafia LGA.

Sweat-Collecting Patch Inspired by Cactus Spines

Sweat is an effective body fluid for analyzing bioanalytes in the body without collecting blood. The sweat sensor can reduce the hassle for diabetic patients who repeatedly have to draw blood, and can also be used in wearable devices for daily healthcare monitoring. However, the practical use of sweat sensors is impeded by irregular and low sweat secretion rates. There is a pressing need to effectively collect these sweat secretions.

Treating Neurological Disorders with Brain Implants

INBRAIN uses technology developed by Graphene Flagship partners ICN2, ICREA and the University of Manchester to develop smart devices for patients with neuronal disorders, like Parkinson's or epilepsy. The Graphene Flagship ecosystem was key to the development of these innovative technologies.

Ocean Infinity to Deliver a Zero-Emissions Marine Propulsion System

Ocean Infinity, the marine robotics company is pleased to announce it is a winner of The Clean Maritime Demonstration Competition, enabling the Company and its partners to build a Marine Propulsion Test facility, with an integrated Ammonia Marine Propulsion System. The test facility will demonstrate clean-fuelled technology eventually capable of powering Ocean Infinity's Armada fleet, using an innovative ammonia based fuel cell system.

Superpedestrian Offering Cost-Effective Passes for eScooter Riders

Superpedestrian has launched its new 'Passes' in several of its European city locations. Designed to cut costs for riders who regularly use the company's LINK shared e-scooters, daily, weekly and monthly options are available, each netting savings for customers.

Sympower and Vattenfall to Provide Northern Europe with Grid Balancing

Working together with one of Europe's largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat, the renewed contract allows Sympower to provide continued grid balancing services in the Swedish market, while opening up further markets in countries such as Denmark.

MatterHackers $5M NAVAIR Tier 1 Additive Manufacturing System Contract

MatterHackers was competitively awarded a five-year IDIQ contract (up to $5M) to deliver fully-deployable additive manufacturing systems to US Navy and Marine bases across the United States and overseas.

Infinitum Electric: Axial Flux Motor with Printed Stator

IDTechEx interviewed Infinitum to learn more about their electric motor technology which consists of an axial flux motor with a PCB stator.

Electroninks

Electroninks is a US-based company that develops and supplies particle-free inks for applications such as EMI shielding, PCB prototyping and textiles. IDTechEx caught up with CEO Brett Walker to find out more about the latest developments, including a $1.5m phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract to develop advanced manufacturing hardware and particle-free conductive inks for printed circuit boards from the Air Force Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO).

Dufour Aerospace Aero2, "Swiss Army Knife" of Small Unmanned Aircraft

Aero2 is designed as amulti-purpose small unmanned aircraft with a payload of up to 40 kg, a maximum take-off weight of 150 kg and a maximum flight time of three hours in standard configuration, it is suitable for a wide variety of customer applications.

Ensuring Accuracy in 3D Printed Jet Engine Parts

Precision and quality are key in additive manufacturing, especially when it is being used to create heat-resistant metal parts for applications such as jet engines, rockets or other high temperature environments. A team of engineers is using machine learning to monitor and mitigate defects that occur in additive manufacturing.

Creating Solar Cells and Glass from Wood or Tons of Biowaste

A digital, urbanised world consumes huge amounts of raw materials that could hardly be called environmentally friendly. One promising solution may be found in renewable raw materials, according to research

Breakthrough Technology by New Company Axtra3D

The new technology, Hybrid Photosynthesis, delivers unprecedented combined benefits of SLA, DLP and LCD in one 3D Printer — fine resolution, large print area, excellent surface quality, and high speed, along with continuous printing and isotropic part performance.

Zeal 3D Printing Receives ISO 9001:2015 for Quality Management Systems

Zeal 3D Printing, an Australia-based company, has achieved ISO 9001:2015 for the best quality management systems. The ISO certification is an internationally acknowledged standard for quality management systems.

Epic Advanced Materials

Epic Advanced Materials work on AI-enhanced nanomaterial synthesis with an initial focus on BNNTs. IDTechEx spoke with Dr Rodney Sappington (CEO) and Brett Cornick (Head of Technology).

MAN: autonomous heavy goods haulage

MAN is an established supplier of heavy goods vehicles into the road haulage industry. MAN is currently testing and trialling automotive technologies and discussed this with IDTechEx at ITS World Congress 2021.

Fuel Cells: The Need for Long Range Zero Emission Vehicles

All major players in the automotive industry are racing to develop and deploy zero-emission vehicles: a tumultuous change in powertrain technology is underway. The new report from IDTechEx, "Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2022-2042", analyzes the role of fuel cells in on-road vehicles.

First Autonomous Robotic Intramuscular Injection

A company founded at the University of Waterloo's flagship incubator has performed the first autonomous robotic intramuscular injection, paving the way to improved patient care in an industry faced with labour shortages. Cobionix, an autonomous robotics company located in Kitchener-Waterloo, performed the injection—without needles—using their Cobi platform.

The Largest Energy Storage Project of Any Type to Date

Photon Energy has secured 1,200 hectares of land in South Australia to develop the world's largest solar energy storage project to date with solar generation capacity of 300 MW with a grid connection capacity of 150 MW. The target energy storage capacity is 3.6 GWh, equivalent to 24 hours of full load, to the grid, from storage.