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Foxconn and Cima Nanotech Form Large Touschscreen Joint Venture

Cima NanoTech announced that it has entered into a joint venture with Foxconn to deliver the industry's first cost-competitive, projected capacitive (pro-cap) solution for large format touch screens.

Sakti3

Sakti3 is a company developing solid-state batteries. They were founded in 2007 by current CEO Dr. Ann Marie Sastry, who was then a professor at the University of Michigan. Sakti3 was recently acquired by Dyson for $90m.

Amprius

Amprius is a spinout of Stanford University working on silicon nanowire anodes for Li-ion batteries. Their target market is that of high altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS), thanks to a specific energy of 400 Wh/kg.

Myths dispelled concerning 48-Volt standard

There are many myths about the move to higher voltage with conventional internal combustion engine on-road vehicles. Here we dispel some of them.

Laser-burned graphene gains metallic powers

Chemists who developed a unique form of graphene have found a way to embed metallic nanoparticles that turn the material into a useful catalyst for fuel cells and other applications.

Fuel pump tests pave way for 3-D printed demonstrator engine

One of the most complex, 3-D printed rocket engine parts ever made, a turbopump, got its "heartbeat" racing at more than 90,000 revolutions per minute (rpms) during a successful series of tests with liquid hydrogen propellant at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

Interactive Wear AG

Interactive Wear AG span out of Infineon Technologies AG in 2005, inheriting their patent portfolio around the integration of electronic components into textiles. Over the last decade they have completed over 100 commercial projects with leading brands across the apparel, technical textile and automotive industries, amongst others.

Joint development of energy storage units for hybrid propulsion system

MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH has formed a close development partnership with Darmstadt-based AKASOL GmbH.

Flexible 7 inch touch panel with integrated OLED display developed

Partnering Touch and OLED Technologies: Heraeus and the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan demonstrate new flexible technologies for the touch panel and display industries.

Xenon Corporation at Printed Electronics Europe

Video interview with Xenon Corporation at Printed Electronics Europe.

Researchers efficiently charge a lithium-ion battery with solar cell

Researchers have wired four perovskite solar cells in series to enhance the voltage and directly photo-charged lithium batteries with 7.8 percent efficiency--the most efficient reported to date, the researchers believe.

These microscopic fish are 3-D-printed to do more than swim

Nanoengineers used an innovative 3D printing technology they developed to manufacture multipurpose fish-shaped microrobots - called micro fish - that swim around efficiently in liquids, are chemically powered by hydrogen peroxide and magnetically controlled.

A partnership to secure and protect the emerging Internet of Things

National Science Foundation and Intel Corporation team to improve the security and privacy of computing systems that interact with the physical world using a new cooperative research model.

Status of flexible encapsulation to enable flexible electronics

In 2020 flexible barrier manufacturing for flexible electronic devices such as displays will be a market worth more than US$184 million according to IDTechEx Research. That equates to 3.8 million square meters of flexible barrier films for electronics.

Ultralight solar cells designed to drive drones

An ultrathin, flexible, stretchable and lightweight 'solar foil' has been produced from perovskite solar cells by researchers in Austria, who demonstrate the material's utility using solar powered miniature aircraft and blimps.

NOHMs

NOHMs is a start up that develops lithium sulphur battery technology. Their technology was originated in Cornell University. The company's CEO and lead researchers are all Cornell alumni. Whilst the company is known for their Li sulphur battery technology, which promises double the energy density of Li ion batteries, they are also commercializing an ionic liquid electrolyte technology which they claim can increase by 20-30% of Li ion battery technnologies.

LG to double global OLED TV offerings in 2015

LG Electronics will unveil four new OLED TVs next week.

Solar cell that eliminates use of silver

Scientists have built an all-back-contact silicon heterojunction cell structure in which silver has been completely eliminated. It has been replaced by aluminum.

IDTechEx Launchpad offers global opportunity for startups

Prototypes to be displayed at the IDTechEx Show in Santa Clara.

Turning internet of anything data into actionable insights

Hortonworks Inc has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Onyara Inc, the creator of and key contributor to Apache NiFi, a top-level open source project.