Advanced Materials

Thomas Swan will introduce two new high quality graphene products to the market at Printed Electronics Europe 2014 in Berlin, Germany.

IDTechEx is analysing the markets and technologies for conductive inks and pastes in this article series. In the previous article, IDTechEx provided overall ten-year market forecasts for conductive inks and pastes segmented by sector, and also outlined the competitive landscape for silver flake, silver nanoparticle and copper/silver alloy pastes and inks. In this article, IDTechEx takes a closer look at the photovoltaic and touch screen (edge electrode) markets. IDTechEx will also briefly examine other markets segments too.

IDTechEx will analyse the technologies and markets for conductive inks and pastes in a series of articles. Here, we will give our overall updated market forecast segmented by target application, including photovoltaics, touch screens (ITO replacement and edge electrodes), RFID, sensors, smart packaging, etc. IDTechEx will also provide market forecasts for silver flake and nanoparticle pastes, and will outline the competitive landscape. In the follow-on articles, IDTechEx will analyse the photovoltaic, touch screen and sensor markets in more detail.

This will be an overview of the market intelligence services offered by IDTechEx and will include a demonstration of the IDTechEx Market Intelligence Portal.

Paper Battery Co is a developer of thin film supercapacitor technology primarily for consumer electronic applications.

Fujikura Kasei has the technology to make and formulate silver flake conductive paste.

Bando has developed low-temperature processsable silver inks

Last week IDTechEx gave the opening keynote presentation at Prinse, a printed electronics conference hosted by VTT. This article describes the highlights of the event.

This article summarizes the main trends that will be shaping the market for 3D printing materials in the next decade, a market that has been highly visible in recent years and which is expected to see stable growth for the sets of materials that are best positioned to support it.

Nanoinnova is a start-up formed in 2010/11 with private funds. They have two product lines: (1) research-scale equipment for CVD graphene, and (2) graphene oxide solutions.

Vorbeck is a graphene firm offering graphene conductive inks and formulations for dispersion in masterbatches. Vorbeck was one of the first graphene companies to move up the value chain and offer an ink. Vorbeck was also one of the first to demonstrate a product in collaboration with MeadWestVaco, and has since demonstrated a large number of product concepts and prototypes.

The profile is focused on Group NanoXplore, a company that is active in producing graphene, based on a unique technology.

A new breed of ultra thin super-material has the potential to cause a technological revolution. "Artificial graphene" should lead to faster, smaller and lighter electronic and optical devices of all kinds, including higher performance photovoltaic cells, lasers or LED lighting.

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

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.

The Graphene Research Centre at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Science and the world's leading chemical company BASF have partnered to develop the use of graphene in organic electronic devices, such as organic light emitting diodes.

Lessons from PE USA Supercapacitor Conference and Visits End 2013