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Speakers announced for 3D Printing Europe 2015

IDTechEx is excited to announce the agenda for 3D Printing Europe 2015. After months of planning, we are ready to launch our fantastic speaker programme.

Atom-thick CCD could capture images

An atomically thin material may lead to the thinnest-ever imaging platform.

Energy Harvesting & Storage and IoT Applications Awards USA 2014

The winners of the IDTechEx awards for Energy Harvesting & Storage and the Internet of Things were announced today on the opening day of the largest event IDTechEx has produced to date in California, which is estimated to have attracted over 2,500 attendees at the Santa Clara Convention Centre.

World's thinnest electric generator

Researchers report that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.

Like water for batteries

Wettability could have an impact on how much energy can be stored within such devices that use lithium-ion batteries or super capacitors.

Award for railroad energy harvesting

An innovative energy harvester that has the potential to save millions of dollars in energy costs for railroads while reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

IDTechEx Energy Harvesting and WSN USA 2012 Awards, Washington DC

IDTechEx announced the winners of the 3rd Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks USA awards last week, at the conference held in Washington, DC and attended by over 300 people.

The murky waters of energy harvesting

The confluence of sea water and fresh water with its inherent difference in salinity is providing researchers with a new approach to energy harvesting.

Award for energy harvesting shock absorber technology

A team headed by Lei Zuo, Ph.D., at Stony Brook University has won a prestigious R&D 100 Award for the development of an energy-harvesting shock absorber that converts vibration, bumps, and motion experienced by the suspension of a vehicle or train into electric power.

New 'frozen smoke' may improve robotic surgery

A spongy substance that could be mistaken for packing material has the nanotechnology world buzzing.

Frozen smoke may improve energy storage

Great amounts of energy could be stored in the aerogel, increasing the capacity of lithium batteries or supercapacitors used to store energy generated from renewable resources such as wind and the sun.

Winners of the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & WSN Awards

Companies were recognized for their outstanding progress in the fields of Energy Harvesting and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) at the IDTechEx awards dinner in Boston, MA on November 16.

Many ways to harvest energy from shock absorbers

In the new age of the electric vehicle, almost everything has to be rethought.

Converting solar energy using artificial leaf

An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antennae. This is the first step to converting sunlight into energy using an artificial leaf.