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Imec and Solliance join forces

Imec and Solliance announced yesterday that imec will be a full partner of Solliance and will integrate its thin film PV R&D efforts in Solliance. With imec as a partner, Solliance aims to be an R&D cluster bringing thin film solar energy technology to excellence.

World record for smallest working gears

Researchers from The Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) have put Singapore into the Guinness Book of World Records by successfully demonstrating the world's smallest fully controlled rotation of a molecule-sized gear.

New approach to e-bike batteries

IDTechEx Technology Analyst Harry Zervos interviewed Leyden Energy's Aakar Patel, discussing the company's battery technology, the attributes that make it a technology that's attracting the interest of electric vehicle, consumer electronic, smart grid and EV developers as well as the company's prospects and aims for the future.

AUV checks mercury in reservoir

An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle AUV that is a pure EV is part of an experiment aimed at getting toxic mercury out of reservoir water. Under the waters of Newcastle Reservoir, Utah USA, and on the surface, it is doing the work of scientists.

Grants to advance energy harvesting computing

We are also fascinated by the prospect of building processors that can run without a battery because they can harvest all the energy they need from the ambient environment.

Scientists use print technology to develop biomedical sensors

The industrial collaboration is led by Swansea University's Welsh Centre of Printing and Coating which is teaming up with the Institute of Life Science and industry.

Energy from wastewater

Environmental engineer Bruce Logan of Penn State University is working on ways to turn wastewater into energy.

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles get cleverer

Kongsberg is the world's largest manufacturer of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. These are almost always pure electric vehicles but some can have fuel cell range extenders, making them hybrids. A leading researcher developing and deploying AUVs including ones that can surface to garner wave and solar power to charge the batteries before diving on their way is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.

Magmotor Technologies expands electric motor technology facilities

Magmotor Technologies Inc., a fast-growing, innovative motor developer and manufacturer in Massachusetts, announced that it is expanding its design and manufacturing capacity in response to increased customer demand and continued new development of its electric motor technologies.

New material for high-speed organic semiconductors

Faster organic semiconductors for flexible displays can be developed quickly with new method, say Stanford researchers.

Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a graphene and tin nanoscale composite material for high-capacity energy storage in renewable lithium ion batteries.

Professor Karl Leo nominated for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2011

The Director of the Fraunhofer IPMS is nominated for the Federal President's prize of Technology and Innovation.

Printed Electronics: What can we do better?

IDTechEx has tracked the printed electronics market since 2002. We have conducted extensive research programs, run our own events internationally and attended most other relevant events. Being impartial, we state the good and the bad. So what have we learnt?

NASA's Juno spacecraft heads to Jupiter with solar power

NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station this month to begin a five-year journey to Jupiter. Juno is powered by 650 square feet solar panels.

Energy harvesting for submarine wireless sensors

KCF Technologies has been awarded Phase II of a Small Business Innovation Research project to tap waste electromagnetic energy on the U.S. Navy's most modern class of nuclear-powered fast attack submarines and "harvest" it instead to perform other crucial functions on these state-of-the-art ships.

Plasmonic technique helps enhance power conversion by up to 20 percent

Nano Gold Rush: Researchers use tiny gold particles to boost organic solar cell efficiency

Siemens receives major order from Portugal for 100 EV charging columns

Siemens has received a major order for its model Charge CP700A charging point from Portugal. As part of the Portuguese program to promote electromobility (MOBI.E), Siemens Portugal concluded a framework agreement for delivery of up to 300 charging points. A binding order for 100 of these charging points was placed immediately by the customer INTELLI, as the coordinator of the Portuguese program. INTELLI is planning the setup of the charging infrastructure network in Portugal and intends to install the charging points in 25 cities by 2012, at public parking lots and near shopping centers, hotels and airports.

Fishermen go low carbon with HK Electric-sponsored micro PV panels

The local fishing industry today sailed into a low carbon era with some 500 vessels and mariculture rafts taking part in a programme sponsored by HK Electric, a subsidiary of Power Assets, to use micro-photovoltaic (PV) panels to harness solar energy for daily operations.

Solid-state energy storage moves forward

The latest from the Rice lab of chemist Robert Hauge stakes a claim in the drive toward robust, versatile energy storage with a solid-state, nanotube-based supercapacitor that can be deeply integrated into the manufacture of devices.

Microsoft duo breaks through with wearable technology concept

Microsoft designers create "The Printing Dress" - an award-winning wearable technology creation that's turning heads in design circles.