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Small connection, big implications: Wiring up carbon-based electronics

Carbon-based nanostructures such as nanotubes, graphene sheets, and nanoribbons are unique building blocks showing versatile nanomechanical and nanoelectronic properties.

Relieving electric vehicle range anxiety with improved batteries

Electric vehicles could travel farther and more renewable energy could be stored with lithium-sulfur batteries that use a unique powdery nanomaterial.

Linear Technology Corporation

Linear Technology Corporation (Linear) designs, manufactures and markets a broad line of standard high performance analog integrated circuits. Linear has been involved in the energy harvesting sector for almost five years now. Linear provides low power and highly efficient circuit solutions for energy harvesting devices.

Digilab Inc

Digilab Inc has a more than 40 years history in providing precision technologies to the life sciences sector. The company has been working on 3D bioprinting via development of its CellJet system since 2009 and the product has been on the market since 2011/12.

TeVido Biodevices

TeVido Biodevices was founded in March 2011 as a spin-out from the University of Texas at El Paso. The company is an early stage biotechnology start-up that focuses on the development of living human tissue constructs for women who have survived breast cancer, from the woman own cells.

n3D Biosciences

This profile summaries the activities of the privately held company n£D Biosciences in the area of 3D bioprinting.

MAN Truck & Bus AG

MAN AG is a middle ranking truck and bus manufacturer in Germany with global sales.

Valeo

Valeo is a Tier 1 company that designs, produces and commercializes components, integrated systems and modules for the automotive industry, mainly for the reduction of CO2 emissions and for the development of intuitive driving. This interview conducted by IDTechEx was focused to learn about Valeo's activities in the area of Autonomous Vehicles.

Engineers develop new materials for hydrogen storage

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have created new ceramic materials that could be used to store hydrogen safely and efficiently.

X-ray detector on plastic delivers medical imaging performance

Researchers from Holst Centre and imec have demonstrated the first ever X-ray detector produced on a plastic substrate that is capable of medical-grade performance.

Environmentally compatible organic solar cells

Environmentally compatible production methods for organic solar cells from novel materials are in the focus of "MatHero".

Thin-film PV world record with 20.9% CIS cell

Solar Frontier, in joint research with the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), has achieved 20.9% conversion efficiency on a 0.5cm2 CIS cell.

Going beyond batteries for space exploration

NASA is seeking proposals for the development of new, more capable, energy storage technologies to replace the battery technology that has long powered America's space program.

Smart car meets smart charger at UC San Diego

Known as the Intelligent Charging Project, the California Energy Commission-funded endeavor brings together smart fortwo electric drives from Daimler, electric vehicle charging stations supplied by RWE - Germany's second largest utility - and the University of California, San Diego as the demonstration site.

2nd annual Canadian Printed Electronics Symposium

The National Research Council (NRC), CMC Microsystems and the Printability and Graphic Communications Institute (ICI) have joined forces again this year to lead the 2nd annual Canadian Printed Electronics Symposium.

New tech could lead to night vision contact lenses

An ultrathin light detector that can sense wavelengths our eyes can't see has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens, its University of Michigan developers say.

Financing for invisible energy harvesting coatings

The financing will enable Ubiquitous Energy to expand its technology development team, establish a full-scale prototyping facility, and execute on joint development with its first commercial partners.

The automotive sector strengthens adoption of supercapacitors

Overall, 2014 is expected to be a great year for the supercapacitor industry. Based on 2013 industry results, IDTechEx confirms its outlook for a 30% CAGR External Link in the next 10 years. The supercapacitor market will reach a value of $6 billion in 2024.

US Navy sends Bluefin Robotics' AUV in search of Malaysian airliner

The team looking for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet in the Indian Ocean has used Bluefin Robotics' autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to use sonar beams to create high resolution 3D images of the seabed some 4500 metres down.

Canatu to launch CNB™ Flex Film

Canatu has developed a unique, bendable transparent conductive film optimised specifically for wearable, electronic touch screen devices and next generation foldable smart phones and tablets.