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Powercast

IDTechEx interviewed Powercast at CES 2020. Powecast use RF for wireless power transfer.

VTT

At CES 2020 VTT gave IDTechEx an update on their developments. Many prototypes were shown.

Corning

At CES 2020 IDTechEx interviewed Corning regarding their new flexible ceramic. Corning have developed flexible glass for years but beyond that have more recently demonstrated flexible ceramics, which could be used as substrates for flexible electronics.

Fraunhofer FEP

IDTechEx interviewed Fraunhofer FEP at CES 2020. Fraunhofer FEP showed a number of printed and flexible electronics related projects that they are working on.

ForcIOT

At CES 2020 IDTechEx interviewed ForcIOT. They demonstrated their stretchable force sensors.

Tacterion

At CES 2020 IDTechEx met with Tacterion, a developer of flexible and stretchable sensors. The company demonstrated an application of their sensor in a power tool.

Storen Technologies

Storen Technologies is an American start-up based in Long Island (NY), developing and manufacturing vanadium Redox Flow Batteries, for residential application.

Omniply

IDTechEx interviewed Karim Somani, COO of Omniply at CES 2020. The company's message is that "they enable cheaper flexible electronics" which they claim to do by having an alternative lift off process - lifting the substrate off the glass carrier.

Screentec

Screentec is a printer, integrator and converter working in printed electronics. The company has 32 people and in 2019 sales were approximately Euro 2.7 million, up from Euros 2.1m in 2018. They expect 2020 sales to be over 3 million Euros.

SP Technology

SPTechnology, a division of Speciality Printing, provides materials and printed components. IDTechEx met them at CES 2020. Products include RFID, medical sensors, force sensors, heating, capacitive touch and security tags.

Circuit Scribe

Circuit Scribe describe their history as follows: Circuit Scribe began during the founders PhD research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. During this research, the founders developed a non-toxic conductive ink that was able to be integrated into a rollerball pen.

Vestas to Produce Zero-waste Wind Turbines by 2040

Vestas intends to produce zero-waste wind turbines by 2040, and is the first turbine manufacturer to commit to zero-waste wind turbines, meaning running a value chain that generates no waste materials.

Medical Grade Printed LED Can Cure Pain

NthDegree manufactures revolutionary printed lights using micro LEDs.

Miravel

Miravel is a Californian company that produces the Simple Garden, a hydroponic wall garden that lets users to grow fresh produce in their own homes. In January 2020, IDTechEx Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Randall Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Miravel.

First Carbon-Free Ammonia-Fuelled Supply Vessel

Equinor has signed an agreement with Eidesvik Offshore for the modification of the Viking Energy supply vessel, to make it capable of covering long distances fuelled by carbon-free ammonia. The vessel will transport supplies to installations on the Norwegian continental shelf.

Massive Battery Proposed Near Retired Coal Plant

The Navajo Energy Storage Station is a pumped storage hydropower facility that would use water from Lake Powell and a new reservoir on a plateau above the lake to create a gigantic battery. The facility would use cheap, abundant solar and wind energy to pump water to the upper reservoir, then release it through turbines to generate 10 hours of renewable energy each day to power cities in California, Arizona and Nevada when demand peaks late in the day and through the night.

Printing Objects That Can Incorporate Living Organisms

A method for printing 3D objects that can control living organisms in predictable ways has been developed. The technique may lead to 3D printing of biomedical tools, such as customized braces, that incorporate living cells to produce therapeutic compunds such as painkillers or topical treatments, the researchers say.

Researchers Make Robots from Self-Folding Kirigami Materials

Researchers have demonstrated how kirigami-inspired techniques allow them to design thin sheets of material that automatically reconfigure into new two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional structures in response to environmental stimuli. The researchers created a variety of robotic devices as a proof of concept for the approach.

Nano-thin Flexible Touchscreens Could be Printed Like Newspaper

Researchers have developed an ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material that could be printed and rolled out like newspaper, for the touchscreens of the future.

Teslasuit

IDTechEx visited the Teslasuit booth at CES 2020 and spoke to Alexandra Paramonova.