10 Feb 2014

National University of Singapore and BASF joint graphene research
The Graphene Research Centre at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Science and the world's leading chemical company BASF have partnered to develop the use of graphene in organic electronic devices, such as organic light emitting diodes.
6 Jan 2014

Printed Electronics Technology, Supplier and Case Study Snapshot
The following article summarizes the current status of the main printed electronics technologies for components in consumer goods and healthcare applications, providing for each one market drivers, case studies and key suppliers, cost structures and challenges.
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14 Dec 2013

Daimler AG
Daimler AG is a major automotive company with electric vehicle activities under Orion bus, Smart car, Mercedes car and commercial vehicle brands and other activities including an e-scooter. Its fuel cell development for EVs and roll out program is up with the global leaders.
Full profile interview: SWOT
6 Dec 2013

Flexink
Full profile interview
23 Oct 2013

Germany Trade & Invest
Germany Trade and Invest is a government organisation under the German ministry of economics and technology. Germany Trade & Invest is a foreign trade and inward investment agency. The organization provides close-to-market information to international companies looking to enter German markets. Germany Trade & Invest also supports international companies from market entry to business start-up in Germany.
Full profile interview
24 Sep 2013

Promethean Particles
Promethean Particles design, develop and manufacture inorganic nanoparticle dispersions to customer's specifications. The company uses continuous hydrothermal synthesis to make the desired product for each application and backs this up with large scale manufacturing capability (currently up to 10 tonnes per year with a 1000 TPA plant build underway).
5 Aug 2013

Winners in traction power appear first in buses?
Large electric vehicles are not sold on up-front price but on performance and cost over life. They are mainly bought by government including local government, the military and with government funding of others. Innovation is therefore usually first seen in large electric vehicles.
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3 Dec 2012

Heraeus GmbH
8 Nov 2012

Supercapacitor strategies
This article shares some of the research in the new IDTechEx report, "Supercapacitor/Ultracapacitor Strategies and Emerging Applications 2013-2025" (www.IDTechEx.com/SuperApps). We establish what is needed to create a billion dollar supercapacitor manufacturer: someone will. A prediction is provided of the coming shakeout in the industry including the number of manufacturers involved.
27 Sep 2012

BASF and Max Planck inaugurate joint research laboratory for graphene
BASF and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research opened their joint research and development platform, the Carbon Materials Innovation Center, on the 24th September at BASF's Ludwigshafen site.
24 Sep 2012

Scientists research safe battery technology for electric vehicles
Over the next three years, 15 partners from German science and the automotive and supply industry will research how the safety of lithium ion batteries can be further improved for electric and hybrid vehicles.
31 Jul 2012

Chemical companies position for EV battery boom - Part 1 BASF
BASF granted usage license for vinylene carbonate in lithium-ion batteries from Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.
12 Jul 2012

EV battery funding successes and hopes
US and European funding for electric vehicle batteries continues to trickle in but at a more modest scale than before.
External press release
12 Jun 2012

Heliatek's transparent solar films for tinted windows
Heliatek GmbH has announced that its transparent solar films could be used to be integrated between the glass sheets of double glazed windows.
20 Mar 2012

BASF signs licensing agreement to acquire LFP technology
BASF, through its global Battery Materials business unit, today announced that it has signed a long-term licensing agreement to acquire global rights for the production and sale of Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery materials technology from LiFePO4+C Licensing AG, Muttenz, Switzerland.
20 Mar 2012

Inorganic and composite printed electronics is favoured
At the forthcoming event, Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics Europe 3-4 April in Berlin, one third of the 94 presentations and masterclasses primarily concern organic compounds but two thirds primarily concern inorganic and composite devices. The organisers did not steer it that way: the customers did.
14 Mar 2012

World's 1st pilot factory for printed intelligence industrialisation
World's first pilot factory for printed intelligence industrialisation opens at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland in Oulu, Finland.