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Roots of the lithium battery problem

The lithium-ion batteries that power our laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles could have significantly higher energy density if their graphite anodes were to be replaced by lithium metal anodes.

Solar sails to power CubeSats for space exploration

Two tiny, cube-shaped research satellites hitched a ride to Earth orbit to validate new hardware and software technologies for future NASA Earth-observing instruments.

Crystal film growth: nanosheets extend epitaxial growth applications

Molecularly thin two-dimensional crystals can alleviate the lattice matching restrictions of epitaxial crystalline thin film growth, as reported by researchers in Japan.

RR Donnelley

RR Donnelley is 10 billion USD company proving print and related services. We examine their experience and involvement with printed electronics.

MeadWestvaco Corporation

This profile briefly discusses printed electronics and its potential and challenges from the point of view of MeadWestVaco.

Diageo

Diageo is a British multi-national alcoholic beverages company. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine. Diageo's brands include Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Baileys, and Guinness. This article discuss views of Diageo towards printed electronics.

Nanotubes can solder themselves, markedly improving device performance

Researchers have developed a way to heal gaps in wires too small for even the world's tiniest soldering iron.

Potential use of graphene in solar cells, thermoelectric devices

Researchers have been very interested in graphene, graphene oxide, and other two-dimensional materials for possible use in solar cells, thermoelectric devices, and water filtration, among a number of other applications.

The future of printed piezoresistive sensors

Sensing is an increasingly important application in printed electronics, partly because printed sensors can enable new ways to interact with machines and smart devices. In this article, IDTechEx takes a closer look at a well-established printed sensor technology: printed piezoresistive sensors.

Clean Energy Institute will focus on solar, battery technologies

A new University of Washington institute to develop efficient, cost-effective solar power and better energy storage systems has been launched.

Quantum waves at the heart of organic solar cells

Researchers have been able to tune 'coherence' in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electrons in organic materials, revealing the key to generating "long-lived charges" in organic solar cells - material that could revolutionise solar energy.

FUJIFILM

Fujifilm has been actively developing a flexible high barrier film and this profile focuses mainly on these activities.

Komori Corporation

This profile focuses on describing Komori's printing presses and systems technology.

Philips Corporate Technologies

The smart window/glass technology from Philips is based on e-paper principles - particles are moved from the edge of a cell across a cell when voltage is applied. Light transmission through the glass can be controlled between 1 to 70%

Mazda

Mazda Motor Corporation is a Japanese car manufacturer based in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture. It was the fifteenth biggest automaker worldwide with sales of $20 billion that year. Over the past thirty years FORD had a strong interest in the company, owning up to a third of the company at one point, but it has now completely scaled back and owns just 3% of the company. The company is launching a new concept of hybrid electric car, the first supercapacitor based car in 2014.

Pipistrel

World's leading electric aircraft manufacturer and the only one with ten years of sales.

Ruckmarine

Distributes Torqeedo Electric Outboards, Team Scarab Electric Sportboats, and solar PowerSkiffs

Hyster-Yale

Hyster-Yale was created in 2012 by Nacco Industries spinning off 80% of its business to create this pure-play intralogistics vehicle manufacturer. It is fourth largest in this business and 8th largest EV manufacturer in the world.

Tesla Motors

Tesla is the world's sixth largest EV manufacturers coming from nothing in a few years with its Apple-like "must have" product propositions in up-market electric cars and soon pure electric mainstream cars and light commercial vehicles.

OXIS Energy

Oxis Energy is a lithium sulphur battery technology developer company based in the UK. It is one of the few companies developing this technology. Targeting the automotive, defense and energy storage market the company has developed partnerships and received invesments from companies across the whole value chain of the electric vehicle industry.