Huntsman (Germany) GmbH

Perfect torque distribution for safe driving

Researchers have developed a torque vectoring transmission with characteristics that are optimally adapted to electric vehicles.

Germany Trade & Invest

Germany Trade and Invest is a government organisation under the German ministry of economics and technology. Germany Trade & Invest is a foreign trade and inward investment agency. The organization provides close-to-market information to international companies looking to enter German markets. Germany Trade & Invest also supports international companies from market entry to business start-up in Germany.

Flexible barriers-an unmet yet technologically challenging market need

Barrier films are required to extend the lifetime of many organic devices including OLED lighting and organic photovoltaics. Currently, the absence of a cost-competitive, high-performance and flexible barrier on the market means that these technologies are stripped of one of their primary differentiators and selling points: flexibility.

Haydale Ltd

Haydale is a UK-based company producing single and multi-walled carbon nanotubes as well as multi-layered graphene nanoplatellets. They have a plasma-based production process and can functionalise graphene nanoplatellets and CNTs in-situ. They have also recently launched an ink formulation in collaboration with Gwent Electronic Materials

Scientists research safe battery technology for electric vehicles

Over the next three years, 15 partners from German science and the automotive and supply industry will research how the safety of lithium ion batteries can be further improved for electric and hybrid vehicles.

Eastman Chemical to buy Solutia for $3.4 billion

Eastman Chemical is buying Solutia Inc, chemicals provider for products from iPads to tires, for about $3.4 billion.

Le Mans racing car uses OLED rear view mirrors

In this year's 24 hours Le Mans race (June 12-13), the ORECA01 car from French racing team Oreca will be using rear view mirrors with an integrated thin film encapsulated Flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) on the back.

Lithium vehicle traction batteries and harvesting

The conference of about 40 people "Lithium Battery Technology and System Development" in London 9 March 2010 was concerned with "breaking barriers for electric vehicles".