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Energy harvesting at eCarTec Munich

ECarTec in Munich is Europe's largest electric vehicle event but it is in decline.

eCarTec Munich - a mixed picture

IDTechEx's Chairman, Dr Peter Harrop provides a snapshot of his insight into eCarTech held in Munich this week.

Researchers discover new route to spin-polarized contacts on silicon

Scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have demonstrated that graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice, can serve as a low resistance spin-polarized tunnel barrier contact which successfully enables spin injection/detection in silicon from a ferromagnetic metal.

Self powered monitoring of nuclear reactors

Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi nuclear disaster that occurred in 2011 as a result of the strongest earthquake on record in the country and the powerful tsunami waves it triggered, underscored the need for a method to monitor the status of nuclear fuel rods that doesn't rely on electrical power.

Plexiglas revisited in EVs: OLED lighting threatened

At the Materialica "Lightweight Design for New Mobility" event attached to the eCarTec event in Munich this week there were 228 awards including one for an ugly wheelbarrow so it was all rather indiscriminate. Nonetheless, close attention revealed some interesting items such as Plexiglas used for new things such as illuminated electric car exterior.

Plexiglas and woven light: OLED light threatened?

At the Materialica "Lightweight Design for New Mobility" event attached to the eCarTec event in Munich this week there were 228 awards including some interesting items such as Plexiglas used for new things such as illuminated electric car exterior.

IDTechEx presented at PE12

IDTechEx was one of the speakers of the recent Plastic Electronics 2012 OLED session in Dresden, Germany, alongside the SEMICON Europe exhibition. Cathleen Thiele, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx GmbH, presented IDTechEx forecasts for OLED Lighting compared to LED lighting.

Kandi contract for first 5,000 EVs to China Aviation Lithium Battery

Kandi of China has an order for open rental city cars in Hangzhou China that are pure electric. The commitment seems to be for 20,000, the same size as the Bollore order for its pure electric Bluecars for open hire in Paris.

Seashell Technology expansion of silver nanowire product line

Seashell Technology, supplier of silver nanowires (AgNWs), now offers two additional silver nanowire products to its existing silver nanowire product line.

Brewer Science new-generation debonder

Brewer Science is introducing a new and improved thermal slide debonder that enables high-temperature slide-off of thinned compound semiconductor substrates in a research and development or low-volume production environment.

Untethered, flying wind power plant

The idea of harnessing high altitude winds blowing at 10,000 meters altitude seems to be promising.

Wave energy conversion device gets positive results

Neptune Wave Power, LLC has been running tests on Model 3.1 of their Wave Energy Conversion device within the University of New Hampshire's Center for Ocean Renewable Energy - with great results.

Caterpillar unveils first hybrid excavator

Caterpillar unveiled the first model in its new line of hybrid excavators, the Cat® 336E H, at its Mossville Industrial Design Center last week.

Cellergy introduces new CLK supercapacitors with extended range

Cellergy, manufacturer of Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors, has just introduced its new CLK series, for extended operating temperature applications in the range of -40° to 85°C.

Why ultracapacitors maintain 30% market growth

Ultracapacitors, also known as supercapacitors, have seen some setbacks lately. Market leader Maxwell Technologies has seen reduced ultracapacitor sales growth in early 2012 due to softness in Europe and Nanotecture, in Europe, developing the variant called a supercabattery went out of business.

NYSERDA awards $2M for new batteries and supercapacitors

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has awarded $250,000 to each of eight companies and research centers to develop working prototypes for a wide range of energy-storage technologies.

Solar power used to study wild elephants in Africa

A team of elephant researchers from Stanford University has transformed a remote corner of southern Africa into a high-tech field camp run entirely on sunlight.

NRI to lead new five-year effort to develop post-CMOS electronics

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the selection of the Nanoelectronics Research Initiative, a collaboration of several key firms in the semiconductor industry, to support university-centered research for the development of after-the-next-generation "nanoelectronics" technology.

NASA must reinvest in nanotechnology research

The United States may lose its leadership role in space to other countries unless it makes research and development funding and processes — especially in nanotechnology — a renewed and urgent priority, according to a new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Funding available to trial energy harvesting solutions

The UK's Technology Strategy Board has made available £1m to fund a series of collaborative projects on energy harvesting for autonomous sensing.