Full profile interview
4 Nov 2016

WattJoule
WattJoule is a company located in Massachusetts that has developed a hybrid vanadium-based electrolyte capable of increasing both the lifetime and temperature range of redox flow batteries.
14 Oct 2016

New kind of supercapacitor made without carbon
Researchers have for the first time developed a supercapacitor that uses no conductive carbon at all, and that could potentially produce more power than existing versions of this technology.
External press release
10 Oct 2016

Agreement to meet the growing market for fuel cell stacks
PowerCell Sweden AB has signed an important agreement with 3M to secure future supplies of MEA (Membrane Electrode Assembly). The agreement with 3M secures PowerCell's supplies for the increased demand of the fuel cell stacks PowerCell S1 and S2.
4 Oct 2016

Will PTFE be the next 3D printable material?
The range of available materials is one of the key hurdles to adoption for industrial 3D printing. 3D printing is being rapidly adopted by product manufacturers all around the world, but it still can't compete with many other manufacturing techniques with respect to material diversity.
Full profile interview: SWOT
3 Oct 2016

Aeroqual
28 Sep 2016

Progress in conductive ink-based transparent conductive films
IDTechEx Research has been closely following the ITO alternative market for the past five years. It forecasts that ITO alternative solutions will reach more than $250m by 2026. In this article, IDTechEx Research brings you an update on conductive ink-based metal mesh films.
Full profile interview
6 Sep 2016

TouchNetix Ltd
IDTechEx interviewed Chris Ard, the Managing Director of TouchNetix. They are a touchscreen technology developer including force touch implementation.
Background
8 Jul 2016

Naio Technologies
Naio Technologies is a French start-up focused on agriculture robots. They expect a turn-over of 1m Euros this year, putting ahead of many others in terms of current commercial success.
Full profile interview
16 Jun 2016

Harvest Croo
Harvest Croo was set up in 2013 by a Strawberry grower, Mr Gary Wishnatzki, and a robotic engineer, Mr Robert Pitzer. They have developed robotic strawberry pickers.
Full profile interview
3 Jun 2016

Blue Solutions
Blue Solutions is a French company that produces Li-ion batteries that employ a lithium metal anode and a polymer electrolyte. These rechargeable batteries are used in Bolloré's Bluecar, an electric microcar with a 250 km driving range.
9 May 2016

Inventors to change future of lithium ion batteries
Researchers are revolutionizing energy storage with a new class of aqueous electrolytes that makes batteries and other electrochemical devices safer, cheaper, and greener.
Full profile interview: SWOT
31 Mar 2016

Denka
Background
10 Mar 2016

3M quantum dot enhancement films
3M Optical Systems manufactures display films that optimize light and advance the performance of LCD displays.
In 2012, 3M announced a partnership with Nanosys to commercialize quantum dot enhancement films. 3M has leveraged their expertise on roll-to-roll coating and barrier films to bring this product to market.
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Full profile interview
17 Feb 2016

Clearinks Displays
Clearinks Displays is a reflective display technology supplier. It was re-founded in 2012 to commercialize its version of electrophoretic display technology. Its key claimed selling points over standard electroscopic technology are its video (60s per second) and full colour capabilities. The company has raised $10m to commercialize this technology and is therefore running a lean and capital-light operation.
15 Feb 2016

Arcam Group release 2015 financial results
On 20th January, IDTechEx spoke to Bruce Bradshaw and Magnus Rene of Arcam in the new office in Woburn, Massachusetts.
1 Feb 2016

3D printed smart coasters for interactive wine tasting
Using state-of-the-art multitouch tables that can digitally identify the placement of a wine glass on the table surface, visitors to the newly unveiled JCB Tasting Salon are guided through a first-of-its kind interactive wine tasting.
28 Jan 2016

Solar roads find many uses
Installing photovoltaics in roads seems a daft idea at first. It sounds expensive and unlikely to work unless cleaned, free of snow and ice and in direct sunlight - all too infrequent in most places. Indeed, roads are constantly dug up by utilities, repairmen and others. How do you do that with sheets of glass?
Full profile interview
18 Jan 2016

Arcam
Arcam is the only producer of Electron Beam Melting 3D printers, which can print in titanium, nickel alloys and cobalt-chrome. It targets the aerospace and orthopaedic industries, and its customers are beginning to place large orders as they use these machines for production parts. They have acquired AP&C to guarantee consistent powder supply and DiSanto to vertically integrate.
Full profile interview
5 Jan 2016

Vocalzoom
Founded in 2010 and based in Israel, VocalZoom's main product revolves around a laser used to acquire information about facial vibrations during speech. The sensor acts as an interferometer and can reduce errors in speech recognition with background noise by upto 75%.
24 Nov 2015

Water-in-salt aqueous lithium ion battery technology
A team of researchers have devised a groundbreaking "Water-in-Salt" aqueous Lithium ion battery technology that could provide power, efficiency and longevity comparable to today's Lithium-ion batteries, but without the fire risk, poisonous chemicals and environmental hazards of current Lithium batteries.