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Intelligent lighting: Integrated devices & sustainable practices

Lighting technologies can be considered mundane in many ways but light and its properties find applications in products much more varied than lamps and luminaires.

A longer life for lithium-sulfur batteries

Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS in Dresden have developed a new design that increases the charge cycles of lithium-sulfur batteries by a factor of seven.

Sony unveils prototype 4K OLED monitors

Sony is developing 4K OLED monitors that can reproduce video signals with the highest degree of accuracy.

Tin nanocrystals for the battery of the future

Scientists have now developed a nanomaterial which enables considerably more power to be stored in lithium ion batteries.

Patented technology could reduce costs of Li-ion materials by 50%

Perfect Lithium is developing technology to boost the performance and drive down the cost of the lithium-ion materials that power consumer electronics, electric vehicles and industrial storage batteries by as much as 50%.

First flight of electric powered sport aircraft SportStar EPOS

Electric powered aircraft SportStar EPOS, made its first flight from the Kunovice airport in Czech Republic last month. After a short, ten-minute flight, it landed successfully and a second flight followed immediately afterwards. The total time when the aircraft was powered by an electric motor reached about 30 minutes reported light aircraft manufacturer Evektor in a recent announcement.

Meidensha Corporation advances green energy management

Expansion into state of the art power component manufacture, notably supercapacitors targeted for energy density greater than that of lead acid and NiCd batteries but with much longer life, greater reliability and much greater power density together with wider temperature range.

Manchester leads the way in graphene membrane research

University of Manchester graphene researchers have been awarded a £3.5m funding boost that could bring desalination plants, safer food packaging and enhanced disease detection closer to reality.

Runners' footsteps converted into electricity at iconic road race

Schneider Electric, the global specialist in energy management, commissioned an award-winning British cleantech firm to capture the kinetic energy from runners and spectators at this year's Schneider Electric Paris Marathon.

Panasonic to supply nickel metal hydride battery systems for Subaru

Panasonic Corporation has announced that it will supply nickel metal hydride battery systems for Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd's first-ever hybrid electric vehicle.

$20 Million to ramp production of Color IQ™ optical components

QD Vision, Inc, manufacturer of Color IQ™ optical components for LCD applications, has announced it closed a $20 million round of financing that will be used to further expand high volume production capacity, and to fund long term company growth.

Elastic energy for soft robotics

When the soft robots move in an environment, they undergo large elastic deformations and collide with the surrounding surfaces. Thus they are going to absorb a lot of elastic energy that would otherwise be wasted.

Q&A on energy harvesting, wireless sensors, wireless sensor networks

IDTechEx recently contacted some of the most prominent potential users of energy harvesting, wireless sensor and wireless sensor networks, trying to gauge the state of the technology, as well as the barriers for adoption that might delay further implementations in different verticals. The questions were simple, although the answers rarely are.

Flexible barrier films for electronics see 39.8% CAGR over next decade

As more and more companies are gearing up and demonstrating flexible display prototypes the need for protection of these new devices that are freed from the constraints of conventional rigid form factors is highlighted once more.

Researching the properties of piezoelectrics

A significant discovery in the area of power harvesting.

Even graphene has weak spots

Graphene, the single-atom-thick form of carbon, has become famous for its extraordinary strength. But less-than-perfect sheets of the material show unexpected weakness.

Self powered chip for early cancer detection

The microfluidic chip is inexpensive to make and relies on an internal pressure gradient to pump the sample through the microchannels, thus eliminating the need for an external power supply.