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20 Sep 2017

3M Battery Materials
3M is a large chemical company. They have recently developed silicon-based anode materials for Li-ion batteries
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19 Sep 2017

Murata View of Supercapacitors
This article covers IDTechEx's annual visit to Murata in Kyoto.
18 Sep 2017

Ioxus View of the Supercapacitor Business
This article covers IDTechEx's recent interview with members of Ioxus staff.
18 Sep 2017

New Zealand leads world in zero emission renewable grid electricity
New Zealand leads the world in zero emission renewable grid electricity now at 85%. With a nice balance between geothermal, hydroelectric, unusually continuous wind power and some solar, the country has less intermittency of green power than most.
14 Sep 2017

Innovation could mean flexible batteries for pacemakers
While the findings show that there are many advantages in the medical world, the organic storage device could also provide solutions in wearable electronics and portable electronic devices, making these more flexible.
13 Sep 2017

New Supercapacitor Applications
This article suggests supercapacitor market growth could be aided by exploiting its unique properties.
12 Sep 2017

Goodbye roadside charging stations
Once we had rows of ugly stalks along the roadside that took your coins for parking - or more often failed to take your coins for parking. Unloved, they have now largely gone and no one mourns their passing. Unfortunately, in
11 Sep 2017

Mobile electrics at watts to kilowatts without batteries
Battery elimination, indeed elimination of all energy storage, is moving to even higher power, from electronics to electrical engineering
11 Sep 2017

Underwater energy transfer
The Navy is developing ways to recharge underwater unmanned vehicles using undersea wireless technology.
8 Sep 2017

Electricity production : when enzymes rival platinum
Making a biocell that is as effective as a platinum fuel cell: that's the feat that researchers have achieved. Three years after making their first prototype biocell, the researchers have just reached a new milestone and increased its performance and stability.
7 Sep 2017

Water-based lithium-ion batteries without explosive risks now reality
Researchers have developed for the first time a lithium-ion battery that uses a water-salt solution as its electrolyte and reaches the 4.0 volt mark desired for household electronics, such as laptop computers, without the fire and explosive risks associated with some commercially available non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries.
6 Sep 2017

IDTechEx Show! Exhibit Space Over 90% Sold
With over two months to go until the IDTechEx Show! at the Santa Clara Convention Center on November 15 - 16, over 90% of the exhibit space is already sold.
The event brings together the hottest emerging technologies including materials, components and systems with end users, who seek to use these technologies to differentiate their products through greater capability.
6 Sep 2017

Silicon solves problems for next-generation battery technology
Silicon - the second most abundant element in the earth's crust - shows great promise in Li-ion batteries, according to new research.
5 Sep 2017

Battery Elimination in Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Let us be more ambitious and look at elimination of all energy storage.
5 Sep 2017

Recipe for safer batteries: just add diamonds
Researchers have developed a recipe that can turn electrolyte solution — a key component of most batteries — into a safeguard against the chemical process that leads to battery-related disasters.
29 Aug 2017

Off-grid becoming huge
Off-grid power has been in decline. Widely seeing it as the poor man's option, users have aspired to get beyond it to the more secure, "troublefree" world of on-grid - or so they believed.
29 Aug 2017

No batteries required: energy-harvesting yarns generate electricity
An international research team has developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when they are stretched or twisted.
22 Aug 2017

Thermoelectric Harvesting in 2017: Still Awaiting a Breakthrough
This article works through the issues facing the development of thermoelectric harvesting, including high power, modular thermoelectric technology and turnkey thermoelectric generators.
22 Aug 2017

Three-stage method could revolutionise rechargeability
Researchers have found a solution for one of the biggest stumbling blocks preventing zinc-air batteries from overtaking conventional lithium-ion batteries as the power source of choice in electronic devices.