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Hummink

Hummink has developed a prototyping machine that can print extremely fine traces using capillary forces. IDTechEx caught up with the company at LOPEC 2024 to find out more.

3D Printing: Hobbyist Pastime or Industrial Evolution?

After years of hype, the 3D printing industry has moved onto a more critical examination of the value-add that effective additive manufacturing adoption brings to businesses and supply chains. In a recent episode on 3D printing, the technology innovation podcast 'Tomorrow's Tech by IDTechEx' explored the history and benefits of this versatile technology, which has existed for over 30 years yet is still finding new applications and end-users in many major sectors.

Safety in Electric Vehicles - Exploring Fire Protection Materials

When it comes to transport, safety is of the utmost importance, and due to the exponentially increasing demand in the electric vehicle market, the awareness of thermal runaway and potential fires from batteries is increasing simultaneously. IDTechEx's report "Fire Protection Materials for EV Batteries 2024-2034: Markets, Trends, and Forecasts" explores different battery technologies and fire-resistant materials as emerging options for dealing with the risks.

Will QRNG Disrupt the Connected Devices Market?

The ability to generate random numbers is essential to encrypting data. However, any classical method of producing randomness will fundamentally be deterministic - and theoretically predictable. This creates an opportunity for non-deterministic, high entropy quantum random number generators (QRNGs). In this article, IDTechEx explores the opportunities and challenges for QRNG in the growing connected devices and quantum communications markets.

MicroAcoustiX

MicroAcoustiX are a start-up company developing surface acoustic wave (SAW) technology integrated with microfluidic structures, and they showcased their SAW-based aerosol jet printer at LOPEC 2024.

Coherent: Photonic Integrated Circuit-Based Transceivers

IDTechEx Technology Analyst James Falkiner recently attended SPIE Photonics West, where photonics company, Coherent, heavily sponsored the event. Coherent (formerly II-VI) acquired one of the world's largest pluggable transceiver firms Finisar, and continues to have a strong market share to this day.

Upcoming Webinar on eVTOLs and Urban Air Mobility

Wednesday 1 May 2024 - Unlocking the Skies: The Promise of eVTOLs and Urban Air Mobility - Introduction to urban air mobility and air taxi services; The different eVTOL aircraft design architectures; Key enabling technologies: batteries / motors / charging infra / composite materials; Market landscape and ongoing projects; Overview of IDTechEx's 20-year outlook for the eVTOL market

The Emerging Industrial Thermal Energy Storage Market

With ~90% of industrial heating processes using fossil fuels, this has led to approximately 25% of global energy pollution coming from heat produced for industrial processes. As such, demand for technologies to decarbonize industrial heating is expected to increase. One such technology that is able to store and supply heat to industrial processes is thermal energy storage (TES). TES for industrial applications currently only forms a minor percentage of global TES capacity, given that TES systems have been widely deployed in applications such as pairing with concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, district heating, cold chain, and space heating for buildings.

Hitachi Zosen Corporation: PEMEL & Methanation Technologies

Hitachi Zosen Corporation (HITZ) is a major Japanese industrial and engineering corporation. HITZ has developed a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer (PEMEL) technology called HydroSpring. This profile covers HITZ's hydrogen and methanation technologies as well as the alkaline water electrolyzer (AWE) and methanation technologies of its Swiss subsidiary, Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI).

CHASM

CHASM are an advanced materials company who produce carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use in concrete, batteries, heaters and antennae. They are based in the US, with a head office in Boston and R&D/production facilities in Norman, Oklahoma.

WasteX

WasteX is a Singapore-based biochar company, focusing on small-scale decentralized biochar production in Southeast Asia.

Fuenix

Fuenix is a company based in the Netherlands which is a player in the advanced chemical recycling space. It currently has a pilot pyrolysis plant with plans for expansion to commercial operation and plans to license its technology.

Unlocking Tomorrow's Vision: Exploring Lidar Technology Trends in 2024

As autonomous driving continues to revolutionize the automotive industry, sensor technologies have undergone unprecedented advancements. One innovation standing out is Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar). Utilizing laser light to measure distances and create precise 3D maps of surroundings, Lidar has emerged as a game-changer in perception capabilities, especially for the automotive industry.

Impact of Large Language Models on the Material Development Landscape

Materials informatics applies data-driven strategies to materials R&D. Long before generative AI technology reached peak hype, it had a long history of success in this field. A common approach is to use machine learning models trained on databases of material structures and properties, which then capture the underlying structure-property relationship.

Webinar - Why Electric Vehicles Will Disrupt the Mining Industry

Wednesday 17 April 2024 - An overview of key mining vehicles; Advantages and barriers to electrification; Overview and developments of the electric haul truck market; Analysis of electric haul truck costs and potential savings; IDTechEx's outlook and conclusions

Montana Technologies: MOF-Based AWH and HVAC Technology

Montana Technologies is a US-based company that has developed AirJoule, its MOF-based atmospheric water harvesting and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technology.

BC Biocarbon

BC Biocarbon is a Canadian biochar and bio-coal producer. In February 2024, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Eve Pope spoke with CEO Peter Popplewell.

Upcoming Webinar - What's Next for the Quantum Computing Market?

Wednesday 24 April 2024 - What is quantum computing, and what is the state of the industry? How has the industry changed in the last 12 months? How do scalability challenges vary between quantum computing modalities? Which trends can be expected in the quantum computing market in 2024 and beyond? When are some key inflection points anticipated for commercial value creation?

IDTechEx Release Advanced Li-ion Battery Technologies Market Report

IDTechEx Research announces the availability of a new global market report, "Advanced Li-ion Battery Technologies 2024-2034: Technologies, Players, Forecasts".

EV Charging Beyond the Utility Grid: A US$16Billion Market by 2034

Electric vehicles are no longer a niche oddity but fully mainstream, with many automotive manufacturers announcing targets to phase out ICE construction in favor of BEVs (battery electric vehicles). Passenger cars are not the only sectors where electrification is taking off. Medium and heavy-duty haulage, construction, agriculture, and mining are all under pressure to reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), and going electric is an increasingly attractive solution.