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Replacing printed silver with copper

The spot price of silver is up over 50% in the past 12 months and it continues to trend upward because silver supplies are falling fast while demand from China, India, Russia and Eastern Europe is climbing. As a reult, a lot of work is underway for alternatives.

MIT's windows harness sun's energy to power buildings

Innovative design is used to achieve superior solar conversion without optical tracking.

Graphene could be used one day in large-area thin film electronics

Researchers have found a simple way to uniformly deposit between one and five layers of graphene to create transistors and proof-of concept electrodes for organic photovoltaics.

Optomec and Applied Nanotech Holdings announce strategic co-operation

Optomec and Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. announce strategic co-operation to introduce optimized copper inks for aerosol jet printing for printable electronics.

RFID and the Printing Industry

Printed RFID is only part of an emerging $300 billion business in printing many forms of electronics and electrics.

New strategy for printed electronics

It is now generally accepted that the printed electronics is headed to be a business of the order of $300 billion yearly in about twenty years time.

Sunset develops platform inkjet chemistry for conductive silver inks

SunJet, the inkjet ink division of Sun Chemical, announced the development of ink chemistry designed to support and deliver conductive films using nano-particles of silver.

Dow acquires Rohm and Haas

$18.8 billion transaction marks pivotal point in Dow's transformation

UK Chemical Sector Initiative - part two

It was noted in the Council for Science and Technology Review that Plastic Electronics is a high risk / high reward priority technology area. The academic structure is well established in OLED, PLED, OSC materials and deposition methods with £20M / yr funding from Research Councils (EPSRC).

UK Chemical Sector Initiative - part one

On 1st July, The UK Trade & Investment Chemical Sector Initiative on Printed Electronics hosted a Masterclass at Haydock Park Racecourse in North West England.

Impinj acquires Intel's UHF RFID reader chip operation

Acquisition expands Impinj product portfolio and increases customer base

German researchers develop lightweight fuel cells

People trapped in earthquakes could be easier to find with the help of a mini helicopter powered by very light fuel cells.

Memristors could play a role in computer memories that do not forget

Memristor discovery could lead to far more energy-efficient computing systems with memories that don't forget and never need to be booted up.

ALIO and Dimatix Collaborate on Ink Jet Development System

ALIO Industries and FujiFILM Dimatix have partnered to design and build a large scale process development system for Dimatix' next generation inkjet printhead development.

New technology powers big RFID orderbook

New antenna advances will be covered at RFID Europe later this year - presentations include Leonhard Kurz of Germany developers of printed RFID and other futuristic capabilities. You can also visit Conductive Inkjet Technology which has new antenna technology and Marshall Aerospace.

Henkel in China

To promote electronics material advancement in China, Henkel and Shanghai University, in conjunction with several leading research universities, have now entered into an agreement to form a Shanghai Region Joint Electronics Research and Failure Analysis Center.

Researchers developing printed electronics for creating RFID tags

European researchers have taken a major step towards the goal of developing printable electronics that can be used for creating radio frequency identification tags and flexible watch displays.

Solar pioneer G24i triumphs at environmental awards

G24 Innovations (G24i) has won the Premier Product Award at the prestigious Business Commitment to the Environment (BCE) Environmental Leadership Awards.

Tekes grants 1,5 million Euros loan for technology development

TEKES The Finnish Funding Agency for Technology and Innovation, on 27 June granted Enfucell a 1,5 million euros loan for development of the SoftBattery™ technology.

Breakthrough in metal ink cure: room temperature on cheap substrates

IDTechEx recently visited Novacentrix in Austin, Texas, to learn of their room temperature cure process.