External press release
17 Jul 2020

Evonik Opens New Technology Centre for 3D Printing in the USA
Evonik is further expanding its business in the area of additive manufacturing. The specialty chemicals company has opened a new technology center for 3D printing in Austin, Texas.
Background
16 Jul 2020

Amo Green
Amo Green is developing nano Ag pressure less sintering paste. Their product was showcased in Nurenberg Power Electronics show in May 2019.
Update
16 Jul 2020

Toyo Chem
Toyo Chem work within ag nano. The particles are only 10nm in diameter therefore it is really a nano solution.
Background
16 Jul 2020

Medtrum Technologies
Medtrum Technologies are a Chinese company commercialising diabetes management devices including CGM and insulin pumps. This profile looks at their activity over the last decade.
Full profile interview
16 Jul 2020

Hololight
Hololight offer products for AR headsets for CAD design and engineering. IDTechex talked to Chief Marketing Officer Luis Bollinger
16 Jul 2020

The Fall and Rise of Metal Additive Manufacturing
There is little doubt that additive manufacturing will become a key enabling technology across a wide range of sectors. Over the past few years revenues have grown, notable new entrants have emerged, investments have been significant, and material portfolios broadened.
16 Jul 2020

Printed Sensors: A $3.6 Billion Market Driven by Diversity
When considering the prospects of an emerging technology, it is easy to make broad-brush claims. For example, stating that 'greater numbers of connected devices, commonly referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), will increase demand for printed sensors' seems an uncontroversial statement.
16 Jul 2020

Merging Solar Cell, Liquid Battery Produces Long-Lasting Solar Storage
Chemists have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and redeliver renewable electricity from the sun in one device.
16 Jul 2020

Join the IDTechEx Webinar 30 July - Smart Textiles: Market Trends
A detailed list of over 60 different application areas which e-textile products have been developed for; Market data around current market size by product type and market sector; Overview of project/product maturity by application area; and Discussion of the best strategies and market forecasts for the sector into the next decade.
16 Jul 2020

Artificial Retina Restores Vision in Blind Rats
An international team of scientists has developed a new nanoparticle-based artificial retina prosthesis that can be injected into the eye.
16 Jul 2020

Could Drones Deliver Packages More Efficiently by Hopping on the Bus?
One-click purchases and instant delivery have helped fuel the growth of e-commerce, but this convenience has come at the cost of increased traffic congestion, longer commute times, and strained urban communities.
15 Jul 2020

How Will COVID-19 Diagnostic Technologies Evolve in the Post-Lockdown
While the COVID-19 outbreak continues to rise in some countries, many others have successfully brought down the number of daily new cases and reproduction number. European countries have loosened the general lockdown, such as Germany, Spain, and UK. Gone together with the quarantine are the huge daily COVID-19 testing numbers.
15 Jul 2020

The New Tattoo: Drawing Electronics on Skin
One day, people could monitor their own health conditions by simply picking up a pencil and drawing a bioelectronic device on their skin. In a new study, engineers demonstrated that the simple combination of pencils and paper could be used to create devices that might be used to monitor personal health.
15 Jul 2020

New Cathode Coating Extends Lithium Ion Battery Life
The new coating, called PEDOT, marks a breakthrough in lithium-ion battery technology since it fully and completely protects each particle of the cathode — inside and out — from reactivity with the electrolyte.
15 Jul 2020

Large-Scale Facial Recognition Incompatible with a Free Society
Some progressive cities have banned some uses of the technology. Three tech companies have pulled facial recognition products from the market.
External press release
15 Jul 2020

Increasing Driving Range in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
Dynamic current is normally not specified in system and device data sheets. It is usually integrated and "hidden" with system reserve/bypass/stabilizing capacitors, adding to the overall DC current draw from electric vehicle batteries.
External press release
15 Jul 2020

Award for Game-Changing EV Platform Technology
REE has been named as one of ten game-changing companies by Bloomberg for its breakthrough EV platform, which is completely flat, scalable and modular and offers customers full design freedom to create the broadest range of EV and autonomous vehicles for current and future use.
External press release
15 Jul 2020

Nidec ASI Growing in Northern Europe
Nidec ASI is growing in Northern Europe and is supplying battery energy storage solutions for three major projects in Finland and Sweden.
External press release
15 Jul 2020

Wärtsilä wins 200 MW power plant contract in South America
Wärtsilä will supply a flexible baseload 200 MW power plant to a country in the Northern Andes. The flexibility of the efficient yet fast-starting Wärtsilä solution will provide the grid balancing capability that is essential with increasing amounts of intermittent wind and solar power generation entering the power systems.
External press release
15 Jul 2020

Sympower and Vattenfall Power Flexibility in the Swedish Energy Market
Sympower is working with Vattenfall to help increase the amount of flexibility in Sweden's reserves markets. The companies are working together to control approximately 60MW worth of assets of the country's new fast frequency reserves, which has a total capacity of just under 70MW.