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Electromagnetic induction in energy harvesting applications

According to recent IDTechEx research on the topic of electrodynamic energy harvesting, almost 20 million devices will be sold in 2024 that will not be bicycle generators. Instead, they will be wireless switches, energy harvesters enabling wireless sensing in transport, industrial and building automation, devices that put the common alternator to work in market segments that there was previously no use for it.

Water a possible key to energy storage for electric vehicles

scientists from GE and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) may have just the recipe for next-generation electric vehicle (EV) batteries that achieve desired driving range and cost for consumers.

World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin jointly announced having achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells.

With carbon nanotubes, a path to flexible, low-cost sensors

Researchers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) are showing the way toward low-cost, industrial-scale manufacturing of a new family of electronic devices.

Drayson aims to raise the sub-1000kg e-car world land speed record

Technology entrepreneur, former UK science minister and racing driver Lord (Paul) Drayson is bringing his spectacular Drayson B12 69/EV electric Le Mans Prototype racing car to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in an attempt to raise the sub-1000kg electric car world land speed record.

Shattering records: thinnest glass in Guinness book

At just a molecule thick, it's a new record: The world's thinnest sheet of glass, a serendipitous discovery is recorded for posterity in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Wired microbes generate electricity from sewage

Engineers have devised a new way to generate electricity from sewage using naturally-occurring "wired microbes" as mini power plants, producing electricity as they digest plant and animal waste.

Assessing the $6.3 billion printed and flexible sensor markets

Sensors do not require transistors and generally speaking have a simpler structure than displays or logic circuits. Printing works well with sensors because the manufacturing does always not require high resolution or accurate registration.

Creating sustainable energy with footsteps

A novel engineering experiment that trumpets the use of renewable energy is about to get a boost.

Scientists publish theory, formula to improve plastic semiconductors

The first theoretical framework that includes molecular-level structural inhomogeneity, seeking to understand, predict and improve the conductivity of semiconducting polymers.

Nanocrystal catalyst transforms impure hydrogen into electricity

Brookhaven Lab scientists use simple, 'green' process to create novel core-shell catalyst that tolerates carbon monoxide in fuel cells and opens new, inexpensive pathways for zero-emission vehicles.

Intrinsiq Materials completes $4.1M round of financing

Intrinsiq Materials Inc announces the close of a $4.1M funding round lead by the Cayuga Venture Fund.

Zink Technologies

ZinkTech was formed in 2011. It is attached to a group of patent attorneys who look for interesting patents that are not fulfilled, and buy them and try to commercialise them, with the help of groups such as universities.

InkTec Co., Ltd

InkTec was formed in 1992. It has 375 staff, of which 80 are involved in R&D. The company had annual sales last years of $74.8million and is a publicly listed company. The company is very active in printed electronics, offering a variety of conductive inks as well as printing services.

Sumitomo Chemical and CDT

Sumitomo Chemical is a Japanese company. It's a member of the Sumitomo group and is listed on the Nikkei 225. The company is one of Japan's major chemical companies and was founded in 1913. The company has been working on organic materials for OLEDs for about a decade, forming a joint venture with Cambridge UK based CDT (Cambridge display Technology). Sumitomo Chemical acquired CDT for $285 million in 2007, at price similar to the amount that had been invested in CDT until that point.

Teknek Ltd.

Teknek was founded in 1978, supplying consumables to the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) industry worldwide. In 1984 Teknek started to develop a contact cleaning technology to meet the growing need for high levels of surface cleanliness required in the electronics industry, particularly PCB manufacturers. The Teknek Clean Machine soon became popular and an integral part of any PCB production line.

Promethean Particles

Promethean Particles design, develop and manufacture inorganic nanoparticle dispersions to customer's specifications. The company uses continuous hydrothermal synthesis to make the desired product for each application and backs this up with large scale manufacturing capability (currently up to 10 tonnes per year with a 1000 TPA plant build underway).

PhosphonicS Ltd

PhosphonicS technology was developed by Professor Alice Sullivan at Queen Mary, University of London. At Queen Mary, a general and economically viable method for silica functionalisation was discovered using vinyltrimethoxysilane (VTMS) as a coupling agent. In 2001 PhosphonicS acquired the technology from University of London to select and commercialise areas of application

DZP Technologies Ltd

The company was formed in 2008 and is head-quartered in Cambridge, UK. It is a small company working on a range of technologies, including low temperature conductive inks, graphene inks and laser-nduced transfer for printing electronic devices (LITPED)

Printed and organic electronics in Korea

IDTechEx has spent almost two weeks in Korea visiting executives at leading companies and attending conferences. Company profiles will be given in our Market Intelligence Portal over the coming weeks. In this article we summarise some of our observations from the country.