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SATA Airlines uses Ynvisible's printed interactive graphics

Ynvisible designed and delivered a novel printed interactive ad for SATA Airlines, the flagship carrier for the Azorean archipelago, due out in the September issue of Marketeer magazine.

Two partners trial Plugless Power wireless electric vehicle charging

Google and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power join Evatran's Apollo Program, the first Program to test and demonstrate wireless charging capability for passenger vehicles.

Supercapacitors Webinar on Friday 28th September

Supercapacitors, otherwise known as ultracapacitors or Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC), have leapt to market growth of 30% yearly due to rapidly broadening applications from mobile phones to trains, cars and battle tanks.

Energy Harvesting: The winning commercialization strategies

A large number of energy harvesting devices, energy storage components and associated electronics now exist. In many cases they are not all available in mass volumes today but certainly in volumes high enough for initial adoption. So who has the most successful model so far?

Imec demonstrates electronics that flex and stretch like skin

Imec has announced that it has integrated an ultra-thin, flexible chip with bendable and stretchable interconnects into a package that adapts dynamically to curving and bending surfaces.

Yunnan and BYD launch manufacturing plans in Southwest China

Plans for new energy vehicle manufacturing plants in Yunnan Province will expand BYD's EV and new-energy businesses into southwest China and neighboring Asian countries.

Big future for titanium compounds in the new electronics and electrics

This article shares some of the research carried out for a new IDTechEx report requested by several of the world's largest chemical companies.

New piezoelectric material

Teijin Limited and Kansai University have announced that Teijin's New Films Development Section and Professor Yoshiro Tajitsu, Faculty of Engineering Science, Kansai University, have developed a flexible, transparent piezoelectric material that demonstrates unprecedented piezoelectric effects.

BMBF Project NEMO: Research on new OLED materials

Merck and ten other partners from industry and academia have successfully concluded the "New materials for OLEDs from solutions" (NEMO) project co-funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Launch of CPT Cobra electric supercharger

Technology developer, Controlled Power Technologies (CPT) will launch what is believed to be the world's first water cooled electric supercharger developed for 'quasi continuous' boosting of commercial diesel engines including those developed for off highway applications and diesel electric hybrid vehicles.

Spinach power gets a major boost

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a way to combine the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon, the material used in solar cells, in a fashion that produces substantially more electrical current than has been reported by previous "biohybrid" solar cells.

NTNU researchers commercialize semiconductors grown on graphene

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) researchers have patented and are commercializing GaAs nanowires grown on graphene, a hybrid material with competitive properties.

Wind could meet world power demand by 2030

Adapting a sophisticated climate model, researchers show that there is plenty of wind available to supply half to several times the world's total energy needs within the next two decades.

Electronics without current

Researchers at Tampere University of Technology, Finland, will explore paths toward a completely new way of designing and making logic circuits that consume no current and can be written and read with light.

Rapid change in the vehicle battery industry

Manufacturers of vehicle batteries were in a slow moving industry based on lead-acid batteries. However, they are now in an era of very rapid change. Product re-positioning and new technology can make the difference between high sustainable profits and oblivion.

Semiconductors grown on graphene

Semiconductors grown on graphene could become the basis for new types of device systems, and could transform the semiconductor industry by introducing graphene as a preferred substrate for many applications.

The latest battery technology is featured in the Lightning

The lightning GT is a British two seater, built on a unique chassis specifically to be a world leading 100% electric GT and platform for future models.

Chemical and component opportunities in Asia

As Asia has dominated in displays, photovoltaics, semiconductor manufacture and other technology sectors, so too will it dominate in making and integrating better components and consumer electronics using the new materials that are enabling devices to be lighter, more robust, flexible, more power efficient and higher performance. Some of these most exciting material developments and their uses are covered at Printed Electronics Asia 2012.

NSF awards $450,000 to UNH and Conductive Compounds Inc.

University of New Hampshire researchers and Conductive Compounds Inc. in Hudson recently received $450,000 from the National Science Foundation to help produce more conductive and cost-effective solar panels.

Kunshan Hisense Electronics introduces new materials printer

The New IJDAS-300 materials deposition printer and analysis system offers users large format, high accuracy, and high repeatability and supports print heads from most well known suppliers.