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Most Marine Renewable Energy Produced in the United States

Verdant Power's grid-connected tidal power demonstration project in New York City has exceeded performance projections by every measure.

Porotech

Porotech is a spin-out from the Cambridge Centre for Gallium Nitride in the Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy at the University of Cambridge.

Electric Vehicles & DC Fast Charging: Moving to the Next Level

The IDTechEx report "Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles and Fleets 2021-2031" finds that the total number of electric vehicle charging outlets surpassed 1 million in 2020, with both China and Europe at or below the optimum 10 electric vehicles per charging outlet.

Image Sensor Technology Trends

Senior Technology Analyst, Dr Matthew Dyson shares insights on the new IDTechEx report: "Emerging Image Sensor Technologies 2021-2031" with IDTechEx CEO, Raghu Das

Rio Tinto to Deploy World's First Fully Autonomous Water Trucks

Rio Tinto will deploy the world's first fully autonomous water trucks at its $2.6 billion Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region. The new vehicles, primarily used for dust suppression on site, will enhance productivity by enabling mine operations to digitally track water consumption and reduce waste.

Bio-Inspired Hydrogel Protects the Heart from Post-Op Adhesions

A hydrogel that forms a barrier to keep heart tissue from adhering to surrounding tissue after surgery was developed and successfully tested in rodents. The team of engineers, scientists and physicians also conducted a pilot study on porcine hearts, with promising results.

Inkjet Printing Shows Promise As New Strategy For Making E-Textiles

In a new study researchers have demonstrated they could print layers of electrically conductive ink on polyester fabric to make an e-textile that could be used in the design of future wearable devices.

Machine Learning Can Reduce Worry About Nanoparticles In Food

While crop yield has achieved a substantial boost from nanotechnology in recent years, alarms over the health risks posed by nanoparticles within fresh produce and grains have also increased. In particular, nanoparticles entering the soil through irrigation, fertilizers and other sources have raised concerns about whether plants absorb these minute particles enough to cause toxicity.

Optomec Announces $7 Million in New Orders from Repeat Customers

Optomec has recently received more than $7 Million worth of new orders from its installed base. The orders include more than 10 new systems being added to increase capacity for existing users, together with a range of enabling software products and digital process recipes.

Aberdeen City Council Begins Search for Hydrogen Hub Strategic Partner

The search for Aberdeen City Council's new joint venture partner to build an exciting new hydrogen hub in the city, which will be Scotland's first commercially scalable, investable hydrogen production site, has launched.

Join the Upcoming IDTechEx Webinar: Emerging Image Sensor Technologies

Wednesday 14 July 2021 - Emerging SWIR image sensor technologies, such as extend-range silicon; Hybrid photodetectors utilizing quantum dots or organic semiconductors; Thin film flexible photodetectors; Hyperspectral imaging; Event-based vision; Flexible x-ray image sensors.

Solid-State Battery Market Will Grow to $8 Billion by 2031

With an increasing number of players working in this field and some milestones being achieved, the solid-state battery market is expected to grow to $ 8 billion by 2031, according to IDTechEx's new report "Solid-State and Polymer Batteries 2021-2031: Technology, Forecasts, Players".

"Electronic Nose" Accurately Sniffs Out Hard-to-Detect Cancers

An odor-based test that sniffs out vapors emanating from blood samples was able to distinguish between benign and pancreatic and ovarian cancer cells with up to 95 percent accuracy, according to a new study.

Solar Energy Collectors Grown From Seeds

Engineers have created microscopic seeds for growing remarkably uniform 2D perovskite crystals that are both stable and highly efficient at harvesting electricity from sunlight.

Lead From Leaded Petrol Persists in London Air Despite '90s Ban

Lead levels in London's atmosphere have dropped drastically since lead additives in petrol were phased out, and currently meet UK air quality targets. However despite this drop, airborne particles in London are still highly lead-enriched compared to natural background levels, according to new research.

WACKER SILICONES - Thermal Materials for EVs

WACKER produces many materials used in the EV market. This interview with IDTechEx focussed on their silicone thermal interface materials for EV battery packs.

Electric Boats & Ships: Five Key Battery Suppliers

IDTechEx expects battery demand from maritime transport to grow rapidly for the next two decades. In this article, IDTechEx summarises five leading battery suppliers underpinning this transition.

e-ThermoGentech (e-Thermo) Japan

We visited this company. They get half the efficiency of Komatsu KELK rigid thermoelectric chips meaning 3-4% but achieve what they call "unique" flexibility by using the usual BiTe as chip arrays on a flexible substrate.

9T Labs

9T Labs is a company that specialise in 3D Printing of composite material. IDTechEx caught up with Yannick Willemin (Business Development Manager).

Visedo

In Finland, Visedo, part of Danfoss of Denmark, has a machine that sounds similar to that in the Tesla 3.