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E-paper displays in consumer electronics

Consumer electronic devices are evolving fast and there is a constant need for display technologies with new features. This week we look at e-paper (reflective) display technologies and assess their strengths in the consumer electronics market.

Boulder Ionics announces exclusive licence agreement with CSIRO

Boulder Ionics Corp., developer and producer of high-performance electrolytes and electrochemical-grade ionic liquids for advanced energy storage devices, today announced that it has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia's national science agency, to develop and commercialize the use of pyrrolidinium-based ionic liquids in electrolytes for lithium-ion and advanced chemistry batteries.

T+ink files suit against TouchBase Technologies, Inc

Touchpac Holdings, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of T+ink, Inc., the worldwide leader in "thinking" conductive ink, has filed a lawsuit against Boston-based TouchBase Technologies, Inc. for patent infringement.

Pomegranate-inspired design solves problems for lithium-ion batteries

An electrode designed like a pomegranate - with silicon nanoparticles clustered like seeds in a tough carbon rind - overcomes several remaining obstacles to using silicon for a new generation of lithium-ion batteries, say its inventors.

Researchers make breakthrough in battery technology

Researchers at the Materials and Surface Science Institute (MSSI), University of Limerick have made a significant breakthrough in the area of rechargeable battery technology.

Graphene for printed electronics

Graphene, the ultrathin, ultraconductive, flexible material that everyone is talking about, is maturing just in time for its use in the printed electronics industry.

BASF

This profile focuses on the activities of BASF New Business in the space for organic materials for optoelectronic applications

Energy harvesting takes wing in merger of engineering and biology

The motion of animals could power small devices that allow biologists to collect information about behavior that eludes them under the limitations of current technology.

Energy harvesting network 2014

The UK's Energy Harvesting Network will be holding its annual one-day dissemination event on 12th March 2014 at Hamilton House, London.

IDTechEx launches Market Intelligence Portal for electric vehicles

IDTechEx has launched a new browser-based Electric Vehicle Market Intelligence Portal which provides companies with real-time global analysis of the total electric vehicles market for land, water and air.

CPI manufactures flexible OLED lighting demonstrators

The Centre for Process Innovation has produced a range of flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode demonstrators.

Off-the-shelf materials lead to self-healing polymers

Look out, super glue and paint thinner. Thanks to new dynamic materials developed at the University of Illinois, removable paint and self-healing plastics soon could be household products.

New solar technology captures high-energy photons more efficiently

Scientists have developed a new, inexpensive material that has the potential to capture and convert solar energy — particularly from the bluer part of the spectrum — much more efficiently than ever before.

Prelonic develops printed light module

Flashing lights on packaging, illuminated magazine covers and books with really "highlighted" areas - everything fully printed via conventional printing processes in normal printing environment, direct on paper and cardboard and fully integrated - the dream of every marketing guy - prelonic is on the way to realize it.

The tipping point

2014 has only just begun and already discussions abound on how a "tipping point" has been reached in the field of printed and flexible electronics, a statement mostly backed by the significant interest and accompanying investment by LG and Samsung into the commercialisation of flexible displays.

The next generation of flexible sensors in printed electronics

There is a new generation of sensors that are directly printed on flexible plastic substrates.

Putting the power in power-dressing

Scientists in the UK developing wearable electronics have knitted a flexible fabric that delivers twice the power output of current energy harvesting textiles.

Engineers show how to optimize carbon nanotube arrays for hot spots

Experimental evidence and computer simulations suggest how to grow structures with the best trade offs between three desired characteristics: strength, flexibility and the ability to dissipate heat.

Researchers build nonflammable lithium ion battery

Developing a new generation lithium-ion battery that doesn't spontaneously combust at high temperatures.