Advanced Materials

Water filters of the future may be made from billions of tiny, graphene-based nanoscrolls. Each scroll, made by rolling up a single, atom-thick layer of graphene, could be tailored to trap specific molecules and pollutants in its tightly wound folds.

The selection of displays used in wearable technology today is both diverse and changing quickly. IDTechEx Research summarises the key trends in wearable displays, and details the latest progress towards the next generation of displays.

Research scientists have combined the benefits of organic and inorganic electronic materials in a new type of hybrid inks. This allows electronic circuits to be applied to paper directly from a pen, for example.

IDTechEx met with Brian Lee and Won-Bok Cho from Amotech in Seoul, Korea, in April 2016. During this meeting we discussed Amotech's offerings for the wearable technology industry, including their wireless power transfer solutions, connectivity, protection products and new developments around sensors and flexible batteries.

This short video will focus on the expectations of printed electronics technologies in the automotive industry over the next decade.

$1.2 billion of electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) are already selling each year, and they are becoming increasingly common to replace solders in a variety of functions, applications and industries.

A simple filtration process helped researchers create flexible, wafer-scale films of highly aligned and closely packed carbon nanotubes.

Researchers have now introduced a new approach for making an all-weather solar cell that is triggered by both sunlight and raindrops.

Skeleton Technologies won the Ecosummit London Award for the best startup in 2015, as Europe's biggest developer and manufacturer of ultracapacitor cells. Customers include the European Space Agency, which uses the product to solve power delivery and energy storage issues by recapturing energy and providing peak and backup power.

Nanomedical Diagnostics Inc. (Nanomed) was established in 2013 in California, USA. They are commercialising graphene-based medical sensors. This is a profile update covering their latest activities.

Rachel Gordon attended Semi-Therm in San Jose to learn about thermal management in a wide variety of devices and industries.

From many different angles, the printed electronics sector is gaining commercial momentum. In this article, IDTechEx explores some of the top trends in the industry.

Garmor Profile

CNano is currently the largest carbon nanotube manufacturer in the world. The main application for the MWCNTs are batteries, where charging times are improved. CNano claim to be the biggest supplier for MWCNTs in this application.

A really strong theme of 2016FLEX was applications in wearable technologies, and in particular in health monitoring. This article summarizes some of the key announcements and progress being made in this area.

IDTechEx attended the Wearable Technology Show, at London's Excel Exhibition Centre on March 15th 2016. The following article describes some of the key technology and commercial progress updates from several of the players present at this event.

IDTechEx met with many existing and a couple of new contacts from the smart clothing space at the Wearable Technology Show, in London's Excel Exhibition Centre. Commercial momentum is growing very slowly in these spaces as players approach the markets for the first time, and the competition is beginning to heat up. This article summarises IDTechEx's learnings at the show.

IDTechEx Research projects that the graphene market will grow to $220m in 2026. This forecast is at the material level and does not count the value of graphene-enabled products. In many instances graphene is only an additive with low wt% values.