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Robots to ResQu rainforests from purple plague

Two Project ResQu helicopters developed by CSIRO completed trial flights near Cairns, locating weeds like the dreaded 'purple plague', or Miconia calvescens, faster and more reliably than ever.

World's fastest manufacture of battery electrodes

New world record: Scientists increased the manufacturing speed of electrode foils coated batch-wise by a factor of three - to 100 meters per minute.

KELK

Thermoelectrics have made large 1.5 kW ones for Komatsu and other construction machines and the like, to harvest heat from the diesel engines. The main bar to launching them for sale is cost

Visit to ITRI Taiwan 15 October 2014

Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) is a nonprofit R&D organization engaging in applied research and technical services. Founded in 1973, ITRI has played a vital role in transforming Taiwan's economy from a labor-intensive industry to a high-tech industry. Numerous well-known, high-tech companies in Taiwan, such as leaders in the semiconductor industry TSMC and UMC, can trace their origins to ITRI. IDTechEx visited ITRI and this is our report.

Smart sensors for better and safer living

Researchers claim a new system of mobile, floatable sensing, called Lagrangian sensing, is very promising for large scale sensing, or on-demand sensing, as it requires minimal infrastructure.

Super stable garnet ceramics ideal for high-energy lithium batteries

Scientists have discovered exceptional properties in a garnet material that could enable development of higher-energy battery designs.

Structural electronics forecast expanded to $97bn by 2025

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies this century.

Aleees

Aleees is a well-equipped company in Taiwan that started by making LFP-NCO (lithium iron phosphate nano co-crystalline compound not nickel cobalt oxide) cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. Now the company is integrated vertically and develops electric buses as well.

World's thinnest electric generator

Researchers report that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.

World's largest battery electric vehicle

BYD Motors has unveiled The Lancaster eBus, a break-through, 60-foot, articulated battery-electric bus that can drive 170+ miles with a passenger load of up to 120 passengers, and was in development for almost two years.

Arkema, CEA and Arjowiggins Creative Papers collaborative innovation

The Open Innovation for Sensors and Actuators initiative pools all three players together in substrate, materials, and integration and design technologies, with a view to offering a comprehensive ecosystem to end-users eager to demonstrate new applications and develop new products in printed electronics.

Novel aerosol deposition technology for solar applications

Beneq and Royal DSM are working together developing and commercializing a completely new and superior aerosol deposition technology for AR coatings for solar glass applications.

Structural energy storage and integrated photovoltaics

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies in this century.

3D printing industry will reach over $14B by 2025

The latest forecasts by IDTechEx, including ten key markets, show the 3D Printing Industry will reach over $14B by 2025.

Big-data approach to estimate range of electric vehicles

Researchers have developed new software that estimates how much farther electric vehicles can drive before needing to recharge.

Store Electronic Systems (SES)

Store Electronic Systems (SES) was founded twenty years ago, but product sales have accelerated in the last five years. The company provides electronic shelf labels (ESLs) for the retail sector. To date, its products and systems have been installed more than 7,000 stores in 52 countries and the company have sold almost 110 million ESLs.

The $2 billion conductive ink industry gathers in Santa Clara

This is a successful and growing industry. Indeed, IDTechEx projects that the $2billion conductive ink/paste sector will grow $3.2 billion in 2025 at the material level.

Dyesol signs letter of intent with Tata Steel

Dyesol has signed a landmark agreement with Tata Steel UK. The agreement will play a critical role in Dyesol creating a commercial base in the United Kingdom to develop, manufacture and distribute its revolutionary solid-state DSC technology.

Lithium-ion battery that warns of potential fire hazards

Scientists have developed a "smart" lithium-ion battery that gives ample warning before it overheats and bursts into flames.

New ceramic flexible battery sets records

Flexible batteries have had a difficult time because they are much more expensive than coin cells and they usually store relatively little energy. Nonetheless, there is pent up demand.