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Creating sustainable energy with footsteps

A novel engineering experiment that trumpets the use of renewable energy is about to get a boost.

Scientists publish theory, formula to improve plastic semiconductors

The first theoretical framework that includes molecular-level structural inhomogeneity, seeking to understand, predict and improve the conductivity of semiconducting polymers.

Nanocrystal catalyst transforms impure hydrogen into electricity

Brookhaven Lab scientists use simple, 'green' process to create novel core-shell catalyst that tolerates carbon monoxide in fuel cells and opens new, inexpensive pathways for zero-emission vehicles.

Intrinsiq Materials completes $4.1M round of financing

Intrinsiq Materials Inc announces the close of a $4.1M funding round lead by the Cayuga Venture Fund.

Zink Technologies

ZinkTech was formed in 2011. It is attached to a group of patent attorneys who look for interesting patents that are not fulfilled, and buy them and try to commercialise them, with the help of groups such as universities.

InkTec Co., Ltd

InkTec was formed in 1992. It has 375 staff, of which 80 are involved in R&D. The company had annual sales last years of $74.8million and is a publicly listed company. The company is very active in printed electronics, offering a variety of conductive inks as well as printing services.

Sumitomo Chemical and CDT

Sumitomo Chemical is a Japanese company. It's a member of the Sumitomo group and is listed on the Nikkei 225. The company is one of Japan's major chemical companies and was founded in 1913. The company has been working on organic materials for OLEDs for about a decade, forming a joint venture with Cambridge UK based CDT (Cambridge display Technology). Sumitomo Chemical acquired CDT for $285 million in 2007, at price similar to the amount that had been invested in CDT until that point.

Teknek Ltd.

Teknek was founded in 1978, supplying consumables to the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) industry worldwide. In 1984 Teknek started to develop a contact cleaning technology to meet the growing need for high levels of surface cleanliness required in the electronics industry, particularly PCB manufacturers. The Teknek Clean Machine soon became popular and an integral part of any PCB production line.

Promethean Particles

Promethean Particles design, develop and manufacture inorganic nanoparticle dispersions to customer's specifications. The company uses continuous hydrothermal synthesis to make the desired product for each application and backs this up with large scale manufacturing capability (currently up to 10 tonnes per year with a 1000 TPA plant build underway).

PhosphonicS Ltd

PhosphonicS technology was developed by Professor Alice Sullivan at Queen Mary, University of London. At Queen Mary, a general and economically viable method for silica functionalisation was discovered using vinyltrimethoxysilane (VTMS) as a coupling agent. In 2001 PhosphonicS acquired the technology from University of London to select and commercialise areas of application

DZP Technologies Ltd

The company was formed in 2008 and is head-quartered in Cambridge, UK. It is a small company working on a range of technologies, including low temperature conductive inks, graphene inks and laser-nduced transfer for printing electronic devices (LITPED)

Printed and organic electronics in Korea

IDTechEx has spent almost two weeks in Korea visiting executives at leading companies and attending conferences. Company profiles will be given in our Market Intelligence Portal over the coming weeks. In this article we summarise some of our observations from the country.

Network of unmanned undersea platforms assist manned vessels

To maintain advantage over adversaries, U.S. naval forces need a way to project key capabilities in multiple locations at once, without the time and expense of building new vessels to deliver those capabilities.

Creating electricity with caged atoms

Researchers are producing a new and considerably more efficient class of thermoelectric materials.

Vinci Technologies

Vinci Technologies are developing a measuring instrument for water vapour permeation.

Clothing+

Clothing+ has been in business for more than 15 years and was a pioneer in the mass production of textile-based heart rate measurement systems. The company is divided in two business units: Sports and Medical. While Sports has grown faster recently, they expect that Medical will become the main part of the business in the longer term. In July 2015, they were acquired by Jabil Circuit.

Near Field Communication (NFC) 2014-2024

IDTechEx first published a detailed report on NFC five years ago. In this article we share some of the findings in the new IDTechEx report, "Near Field Communication (NFC) 2014-2024".

Graphene Frontiers awarded grant for roll-to-roll graphene production

Graphene Frontiers, a company developed through the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Technology Transfer, has been awarded a $744,600 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop roll-to-roll production of graphene, the "miracle material" at the heart of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Highest open-circuit voltage for quantum dot solar cells

Scientists and engineers have demonstrated the highest recorded open-circuit voltages for quantum dot solar cells to date.

Estrima Birò MicroEV Quadricycle removable battery

IDTechEx considers the fact that electric bicycle batteries can be removed for charging to be a huge benefit to those wishing to prevent theft and those parking where no charging is possible or where the vehicle may be vandalised during charging. Now that considerable benefit has come to microEVs.