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Haydale and Goodfellow announce major distribution agreement

Haydale has announced a non-exclusive agreement with Goodfellow.The agreement will focus on the global marketing and distribution of Haydale's functionalised graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs), which are designed to enhance product performance when compared to non-functionalised materials; they are suitable for numerous applications including resins, epoxies and polymer composites.

A look inside SLAC's battery lab

A team of scientists is making and testing new types of lithium-ion batteries. Their goal: create a battery five times better than the ones we use today.

Solar powered smart benches

Soofa is a solar-powered bench that provides free outdoor charging for mobile devices and location-based information like air quality and noise levels by uploading environmental sensor data to soofa.co. The smart urban furniture is developed by Changing Environments, a MIT Media Lab spin-off.

Flexible, printed batteries for wearable devices

A California startup is developing flexible, rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers.

Can the world's most promising electric-car battery be saved?

Over the last half-dozen years, a swarm of companies from around the world including General Motors has snapped up licenses for a lithium-ion electrode that promised to deliver the next big step in making electric cars competitive with conventional vehicles.

IDTechEx: unmanned electric aircraft take agriculture by storm

The German Agricultural Society Field Days 2014, held recently showcased many new innovations in crop production for the German and other European producers present. This year's event had special emphasis on drones, notably quadcopters and other multicopters for spotting disease, underwatering and many other conditions plus some fixed wing versions.

Holst Centre IP available to start-ups and SMEs

Holst Centre and the Brabant Development Agency have announced a new, long-term strategic partnership to help small-to-medium enterprises convert Holst Centre's knowledge and patents into new innovations.

The death of coal and oil boost EVs

When representative of OPEC, Sheik Yamani famously said, "The stone age did not end for lack of stones", it is now clear that the coming decade will see a collapse of coal power and not because coal supplies are running out. The writing is on the wall for oil as well - it will help electric vehicles because it will no longer be true that they use "dirty" electricity in the main.

Vibrations enhance efficiency of photosynthesis

Biophysics researchers have used short pulses of light to peer into the mechanics of photosynthesis and illuminate the role that molecule vibrations play in the energy conversion process.

Energy harvesting and IoT in building automation

There are many definitions flying around the world of technology for what the Internet of Things (IoT) is or what it can do for people and even more impressively, a wide range of numbers that describe the size of the market that the IoT is going to grow into, some of those projections swimming close to the "realm of unbelievable".

Hybrid vehicle traveled Africa To England on a single tank of fuel

A Mercedes-Benz E 300 BlueTEC HYBRID has travelled the 1968 kilometres from Tangier in North Africa to Goodwood in England without having to refuel - and on reaching its destination still had enough fuel left for a further 160 kilometres.

Exeger

Exeger was established in 2009. Exeger is planning to build a 20 MW sheet-to-sheet DSSC production facility at Stockholm near KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Exeger claims this to be the largest production facility worldwide.

Thinfilm and EVRYTHNG Collaborate

Thin Film Electronics ASA a leader in the development and commercialization of printed electronics, announced a collaboration agreement with EVRYTHNG, the Web of Things software company that makes physical products smart, by connecting them to unique digital identities on the Web.

IDTechEx launches Wearable Technology LIVE! USA

IDTechEx is launching the Wearable Technology LIVE! event on 19-20 November 2014 in Santa Clara, California. This is an international tradeshow and conference focused on wearable technologies with a particular emphasis on the critical enabling technologies that will shape the future of wearable devices.

Tightening air pollution laws boost e-ships

In two parts of the world — along the U.S. and Canadian coasts, and in the Baltic and North seas as well as the English Channel — the SOx limits are ultra-strict. As of 2010, the sulfur content of marine fuel in these "emission control areas" must be 1 percent or lower. As of 2015, the sulfur content must be 0.1 percent or lower.

ISORG, the pioneer company of organic image sensors, raises 6.4M Euros

Bpifrance, Sofimac Partners and CEA Investissement participate in ISORG financing round of 6.4M Euros ($8.7 million).

Thermoelectric material to hit market later this year

California-based Alphabet Energy plans to begin selling a new type of material that can turn heat into electricity. Unlike previous thermoelectrics, as such materials are known, it is abundant, cheap, and nontoxic.

New Energy Technologies Inc

New Energy Technologies (NET) develops patent portfolios around renewable energy technologies and seeks to license them out. They are a small operation but are a publicly-traded company. NET is primarily focused on developing and commercializing IP around the use of organic photovoltaics in the BIPV sector.

OLED displays in wearable devices

OLED displays have been very successful in mobile phones. As consumer electronics companies are trying to identify the next big thing, there is now a proliferation of "wearables" - devices that can be worn on the body. OLED technology brings some distinct advantages in these applications, such as thinner and curved displays.

Nano-sized silicon oxide electrode for lithium ion batteries

The authors have successfully produced nanocomposite SiO powders by plasma spray physical vapor deposition using low cost metallurgical grade powders at high throughputs.