Advanced Materials

Currently, most parts of a smart phone are made of silicon and other compounds, which are expensive and break easily.

An often overlooked fact about the conductive industry is that it has seen significant innovation over the past decade. Indeed, the industry has a long history of developing new materials and formulations in response to changing market needs and new applications.

On May 24-25th 2017, James Hayward from IDTechEx attended CPES 2017. The event brought together an excellent group of both Canadian and international speakers to discuss several key areas in the printed and flexible electronics space. This article will address each area in turn, including smart packaging, IoT, structural and 3D electronics and textile/wearable electronics.

IDTechEx Technology analysts' Drs Richard Collins and Khasha Ghaffarzadeh attended Plastics 2017 at the Tokyo Big Sight, Japan. These slides give some highlights from the Plastics event and extends to composite material and adhesion-free metal-plastic joining solutions.

May 10th-11th saw the 2017 European-leg of the IDTechEx Show! In this article IDTechEx analysts share some of the most interesting innovations on offer at the show.

MEC Company have developed an adhesive-free metal-to-resin joining technology called AMALPHA. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Wim Ongenae (Sales and Marketing Director from MEC Europe).

Strong positive feedback and growth at Europe's most important event on emerging technologies

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 30 May 2017 titled "Transparent conductive films (TCFs): Emerging Technology and Market Frontiers"

Free Form Fibers (FFF) have developed a platform technology for the manufacture of high performance fibers using Laser chemical vapor deposition. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed John Schneiter (CEO).

ELG Carbon Fibre are the largest recyclers of carbon fibre material. IDTechEx technology analyst Dr Richard Collins interviewed Anthony Stevenson (Technical Service Manager).