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Major milestone for the treatment of eye disease

AI system can quickly interpret eye scans from routine clinical practice with unprecedented accuracy and correctly recommend how patients should be referred for treatment for over 50 sight-threatening eye diseases as accurately as world-leading expert doctors.

Graphene jacket: Part jacket, part science experiment

While it's completely invisible and only a single atom thick, graphene is the lightest, strongest, most conductive material ever discovered, and has the same potential to change life on Earth as stone, bronze and iron once did.

Sono Motors announces Dutch market entry

Just a few weeks after the conclusion of a test drive tour around Europe lasting several months, Sono Motors has announced another series of test drives of the Sion electric car encompassing a total of 18 cities in the Netherlands and Germany.

$1.1 million funding for magic pen that corrects eye injuries

A BioPen that uses special ink to 'colour in' and treat eye wounds has taken a giant leap towards being commercially available, after the NSW Medical Devices Fund awarded its creators $1.1 million.

Robots as tools and partners in rehabilitation

In future decades the need for effective strategies for medical rehabilitation will increase significantly, because patients' rate of survival after diseases with severe functional deficits, such as a stroke, will increase.

Synthecon

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed Synthecon Application Scientist Kirsten Clingman on August 11, 2017. Synthecon manufactures the NASA rotational bioreactor for cell culture in microgravity.

Rocket Electric

Rocket Electric was established in 1946, with the brand name Rocket and specialises in producing a full range of battery products, including flexible lithium battery and paper battery.

Blue Current

Blue Current is a US-based early stage startup that is working on hybrid solid electrolytes for Li-ion batteries. They claim their electrolyte has an ionic conductivity >10{^-4} S/cm at room temperature and a transference number close to unity.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT has many relevant projects including biomimetic batteries and ones created using viruses, printed electronic circuits, printed energy harvesting and so on.

Imprint Energy, Inc.

Imprint Energy is a start-up based in Alameda, California. Their main product is ZincPoly™, with zinc and metal oxide electrodes and a non-flammable, non-toxic solid-state gel electrolyte. This battery chemistry can be screen printed

ProLogium Technology Corporation

ProLogium is located in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The key technology in Flexible Printed Circuit Lithium-Ceramic Battery (FLCB) of ProLogium Technology is the combination of flexible printed circuit (FPC) substrate and solid like lithium ceramic electrolyte. The battery is ultra-thin,truly flexible and bendable.

Huizhou Markyn New Energy

Huizhou Markyn New Energy Co., Ltd. is a manufacturer specialising in primary lithium polymer batteries.

Front Edge Technology

Front Edge Technology (FET) develops a LiPON-based NanoEnergy product for micro power applications.

Fraunhofer ENAS

The group developed printed flexible battery based on zinc-carbon chemistry.

5G will change the way to get TV and internet at home

You are probably used to watching a video or listening to the radio via your smartphone, or to be more specific, 4G LTE however 5G technology will revolutionise the way you get TV and internet at home.

Why the times are a changin' in marine electrification

The marine industry is at a turning point: vessel owners and operators are increasingly attracted to the value proposition of installing a battery system. Electrification is gaining momentum. Here's why.

Smart Cities Massively Exceeding Expectation

The term smart city originally meant little beyond using much more information technology IT. However, new IDTechEx report, "Smart City Opportunities: Infrastructure, Systems, Materials 2019-2029" reveals that much more dramatic changes are both required and possible and humans will be in the driving seat.

Fiber laser sensing trends: LiDAR, gas detection & structural health

Fiber lasers have a large share of the laser material processing market but are typically limited to aerospace and defence applications in the sensing market segment. That is set to change within the next decade as emerging applications of fiber laser technologies include automotive LiDAR, multi-species gas sensing and structural health monitoring.

Solar-powered aircraft breaks record

Airbus Defence and Space announced the successful landing of its first production aircraft of the Zephyr programme, the new Zephyr S HAPS. Zephyr S logged a maiden flight of over 25 days, the longest duration flight ever made.

Insight into loss processes in perovskite solar cells

Even solar cells made of a perfect miracle material would never be able to convert 100 % of sunlight to electrical energy. This is because the theoretical maximum achievable power is limited by the position of the energy bands of the electrons, and by unavoidable radiation of photons (the thermodynamic or Shockley-Queisser limit). Maximum power conversion efficiency for silicon is about 33 %, for example. But even this value will never actually be reached.