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Boulder Ionics announces exclusive licence agreement with CSIRO

Boulder Ionics Corp., developer and producer of high-performance electrolytes and electrochemical-grade ionic liquids for advanced energy storage devices, today announced that it has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, to develop and commercialize the use of pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquids in electrolytes for lithium-ion and advanced chemistry batteries.

Novel biological sources for battery materials

The squirmy marine cuttlefish may be the next best source of electrode materials for batteries to power edible medical devices.

Core technology for lithium air secondary battery developed

The core technology for lithium air secondary battery, the next generation high capacity battery, has been finally developed.

Curved OLED TV earns globally recognized green certifications

LG Electronics (LG) has announced that its CURVED OLED TV has been certified energy efficient and designed with the environment in mind by three separate certification bodies: Intertek, the European Commission and the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT).

Nanofiber sensor instantly detects diabetes or lung cancer in breath

Today's technological innovation enables smartphone users to diagnose serious diseases such as diabetes or lung cancer quickly and effectively by simply breathing into a small gadget, a nanofiber breathing sensor, mounted on the phones.

Elbit Systems

Elbit System is an international defense electronics company. They have diversified into energy storage technology through a comprehensive supercapacitor research program. They are focusing on aqueous electrolyte based supercapacitors, which are safer but with lower performance than organic electrolyte based supercapacitors. However based on improvements in electrode materials (such as carbon nanotubes) they are closing the performance gap. They are a company with high-level research capabilities.

Printed Electronics Research with acquisition of CeraPrinter X-Serie

Ceradrop is pleased to announce that the Tobin J. Marks research group, part of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, has acquired a CeraPrinter X-Serie machine as part of an ongoing close collaboration with Ceradrop (Limoges, France).

Cellergy

Cellergy is a developer of small supercapacitors for electronic applications. The company is currently under change of management given bad financial situation.

Latest progress on solution-processed OLEDs

IDTechEx recently attended the SID Organics meeting held at Imperial College London. Here we will provide a brief update on the activities of several major chemical companies that are actively pursuing OLED.

Beneq US expansion gaining momentum

Beneq, leading provider of industrial thin film equipment and technology based on atomic layer deposition (ALD) and aerosol coating, is proud to announce significant developments in its US operations.

CAP-XX to Speak at Energy Harvesting Europe 2010 & Sensors Expo 2010

Mr. Pierre Mars, vice president of quality and applications engineering for CAP-XX Ltd, will speak at both the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and Storage Europe and Sensors Expo conferences on the power management challenges of battery-free wireless sensor networks (WSNs) powered by environmentally-harvested energy.

MDC - development kit to instantly print electrical circuits

Development kit to instantly print electrical circuits -Methode Electronics, Inc

New ion jelly material for use in electrolytic devices

The New University of Lisbon presented a new Ion Jelly® material, which combines a biodegradable polymer (gelatin) with an ionic liquid (IL).

Mühlbauer delivers complete RFID factory to exax Inc

Mühlbauer has been selected to supply all necessary equipment for RFID inlay production, label converting and label insertion to exax Inc.

Development of high-performance organic-dye-sensitized solar cell

A new organic high-performance dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) has been developed that does not use Ruthenium.