Advanced Materials

Tesla needs to excel in the much broader range of energy storage technologies needed for Class 8 trucks down to Tesla 3 cars to retain uniquely long range for the price.

A screen printed poster that uses smart ink and a tiny internet connected computer to reflect the day's changing weather. As the weather forecast changes, so will the ink on the paper. The icons take 5-15 minutes to fully activate and will update throughout the day as needed.

The IDTechEx Show! on April 10-11 in Berlin brings together eight key disruptive technologies and their customers at one venue.

The market composition of transparent conductive films and materials has not dramatically shifted for some years. It is heavily reliant upon select markets such as flat consumer small/medium sized electronic touch screens. Indeed, the IDTechEx Research report Transparent Conductive Films and Materials 2018-2028: Forecasts, Technologies, Players puts this reliance around 85-90% today. The emergence of new applications has also been slower than many had predicted and hoped. This report finds that so-called 'old' applications are still the vast majority of the market.

In this premium article below we cover some of the latest activities with printed, flexible batteries.

Small tweaks in component ratios generate electronically different layers from the same material to create transparent transistors.

In this premium article, we present some of the key food tech products from CES 2019 and Food Tech Live.

At an event as large as CES, there are many technology themes beyond the traditional topic boundaries covered by IDTechEx. In this article, we discuss two such areas, both of which are close to, but slightly outside traditional areas of coverage.

Sheba Microsystems demonstrated a competitive approach to traditional voice coil-based optical image stabilisation (OIS) based on MEMS technology. IDTechEx interviewed them at CES 2019.

IDTechEx interviewed Noam Zafrir, Head of Software at Noveto at CES 2019.

Whilst still a "consumer" event, the coverage at CES certainly expands from consumer products, into medical devices and beyond. Principal Analyst James Hayward discusses his findings.

This 40 person event had many good speakers and interactions IDTechEx Chairman Dr Peter Harrop reports on his findings.

Researchers have developed an easy way to make complicated arrays of microsupercapacitors that involves screen-printing them out of graphene ink. The simplicity and freedom offered by the approach will aid the development of new approaches to electronics and flexible devices.

In this brief slide deck, we briefly outline the key aspects and challenges of growing high-quality graphene as an electronic substrate. This could take the form of a film of graphene on a wafer or another substrate. Therefore, we will consider chemical vapour deposition as well as epitaxial growth. Here, we will also outline some of the R&D progress on this topic. This slide presentation will be the first of two presentations. The second one will consider the use of graphene as an electronic material.

NAMI displayed self-powered flexible PCB for IoT electronics, powered by rechargeable printed lithium batteries, packaged on flexible printed circuit board (FPCB).

The Mann+Hummel Group is a German manufacturing group headquartered in Ludwigsburg, who develops, produces and distributes liquid and air filter systems, intake systems and thermal management components. At CES, the company displayed its digital filtration solutions.

Dr Xiaoxi He reports on CES 2019

Dr Xiaoxi reports on her observations at CES2019

Senior Technology Analyst Dr Xiaoxi He reports on her findings as CES 2019

Senior Technology Analyst Dr Xiaoxi He reports her findings from CES 2019