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Innovative Textile Vents to Release Heat When you Sweat

Scientists have developed a lightweight material that traps thermal energy when dry, but opens a series of tiny vents to let heat escape when a person starts sweating. The vents close again to retain heat once they are dry.

Perovskite Solar Cell with Ultra Long Stability

Perovskites are the great hope for further increasing the efficiency of solar modules in the future. Until now, their short service life has been considered the biggest hurdle to their practical use, but this could soon change.

New Milestone in Volvo Penta's Electrification Journey

Volvo Penta is accelerating its efforts to reach zero emissions - through fossil-free, renewable fuels, hybrid, and electric technology. In the latest development, the company has delivered and integrated its electric driveline into the first of a series of prototype fully electric terminal tractors to U.S. customer, TICO - who will be testing the prototypes with a variety of major fleet partners.

Health Patch With Core Body Temperature Measurement

Recon Health announced its partnership with greenTEG to integrate greenTEG's proprietary CALERA core body temperature sensor solution for continuous and non-invasive core body temperature measurement into Recon Health's Virtual Care Patch for remote patient monitoring and diagnostics.

SABI AGRI

At FIRA 2021, IDTechEx watched a demonstration of SABI AGRI's latest product Zilus, an add-on system enabling autonomous driving.

Super Soco First Electric Brand in Top Ten Powered Two Wheelers

Super Soco has become the first ever 100% electric brand to feature in the top ten best-selling powered two wheelers. Until now, the list has been populated only by manufacturers traditionally producing petrol-powered machines.

Octopus Energy and Sterlite Power team up to Decarbonise India

Octopus Energy Group and Sterlite Power have signed an agreement that aims to help decarbonise Indian industry and bring cheaper green power to consumers around the world.

BayWa r.e. Signs Largest European Solar Corporate VPPA for Packaging

BayWa r.e. and Huhtamaki, a leading global provider of sustainable packaging solutions, have signed a 10-year Virtual Power Purchase Agreement for two new solar projects in Spain. This marks the largest European solar corporate VPPA for the packaging industry, as well as the first solar corporate VPPA signed by a Finnish company.

Fluence to Deliver Its First Energy Storage System in Taiwan

Fluence has been chosen by the local renewable energy IPP, Ina Energy, subsidiary of the PJ Asset Management Group, as the solution provider to deliver a 6MW / 6MWh battery-based energy storage system in Taoyuan, Taiwan.

Monta and GARO Join Forces to Accelerate EV Charge Points

Electric vehicle charging app, Monta, and EV charge point manufacturer, GARO, have today announced a new partnership to free up EV charge points for all drivers and speed up installation rates across the UK.

Pilot to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease in the Black Community

The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the science arm of Northwell Health, recently received a $150,000 grant from TD Bank to launch a new research program and the first clinical trial to reduce cardiovascular disease in the Black community and determine the best behavioral interventions to lower cardiovascular disease.

Wärtsilä Enters Dutch Market with Largest Energy Storage System

Wärtsilä will supply a 25-megawatt (MW) / 48-megawatt hour energy storage system to GIGA Storage BV in the Netherlands to help stabilise the electric grid. This will be Wärtsilä's first energy storage project in the Netherlands and it will be the country's largest system to date.

PlatformE acquires Catalyst AI to Make Sustainable Fashion a Reality

PlatformE has acquired Catalyst AI, an artificial intelligence company based in Cambridge, UK. The deal will see Catalyst AI's machine learning tools for optimising fashion supply chains bolster PlatformE's services for efficient on-demand and made-to-order fashion.

ACWA Power Signs Agreement for 100MW Uzbekistan Wind Power Project

ACWA Power has finalised the project agreements for the 100MW Nukus wind project in the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Crossflow Energy Launches Revolutionary Small Wind Turbine

Crossflow Energy has launched the Crossflow Wind Turbine. Reliable and easy to install, the unique turbine specifically addresses the issues that have historically inhibited the adoption of small-scale wind.

3D Printing Meets Meat in the Largest Cultured Steak Ever Made

Recently, Israeli bioprinting company MeaTech 3D Ltd announced that it succeeded in printing a 104 gram (3.67 oz) cultivated steak using their proprietary 3D printing technology. Made of real cultivated fat and muscle cells, the steak is believed to be the largest cultured steak produced to date. The achievement represents another step on the road to mass production of cultured meat, an important goal to combat climate change.

Robots Use Fear to Fight Invasive Fish

The invasive mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) chews off the tails of freshwater fishes and tadpoles, leaving the native animals to perish while dining on other fishes' and amphibians' eggs. Researchers engineered a robot to scare mosquitofish away, revealing how fear alters its behavior, physiology, fertility—and may help turn the tide against invasive species.

Production of Electricity on the Moon

The results of research are planned to be used to provide electricity to future lunar outposts of the European Space Agency and its international partners. The lunar outpost is planned to be established on the South Pole of the Moon in the next decades.

Soft Semiconductors that Stretch Like Human Skin

Semiconductors are moving away from rigid substrates, which are cut or formed into thin discs or wafers, to more flexible plastic material and even paper thanks to new material and fabrication discoveries. The trend toward more flexible substrates has led to fabrication of numerous devices, from light-emitting diodes to solar cells and transistors.

Standard Robots

Standard Robots is one of the leading autonomous mobile robot (AMR) companies in China. The company was established in 2014 in Harbin, China, and moved its headquarters to Shenzhen, China in 2016. The company employs 500 people currently. In 2020 the company's revenue exceeded $15 million and it is estimated to be over $45 million in 2021. Until now, the company has accomplished over 300 projects and deployed more than 3000 AMRs in the field.