TyroMotion GmbH (AT)

MaterialsZone

MaterialsZone are a platform technology for connected research data. IDTechEx interviewed their Co-founder and CTO Barak Sela.

IDTechEx Predicts $350 Billion in Off-Grid, Zero-Emission Microgrids

IDTechEx forecasts exponential growth to a huge $350 billion in 2040 for clean microgrids. It will be driven by legislation, cost, increasing problems with national grids and many new applications. Electrifying mines to farms and transport helps too.

Intellegens

IDTechEx interviewed CEO of Intellegens, Ben Pellegrini. The work of Intellegens was outlined in a full profile from January 2019. The company has progressed until March 2020, most notably with projects and upcoming product launches.

Solvay

Solvay are an advanced materials and speciality chemicals company. They notably entered the carbon fiber industry back in 2015 with the acquisition of Cytec.

AgBiome

AgBiome is a biotech start-up that leverages the plant microbiome to create novel crop protection products. In April 2020, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Michael Dent spoke with Tracy Raines, Chief Innovation Officer at AgBiome.

Proteus Instruments

Proteus started out from its parent company RS Hydro. It is a trading division of RS Hydro and was formed on the back of an innovation project to develop a real-time BOD sensor. IDTechEx interviewed Hannah Gunter, technical research assistant and Michael Oswell, Sales Director.

DNA Biosensor for Early Stage Disease Detection

Disease detection at an early stage is one of the biggest challenges biochemists and materials scientists are trying to meet. Researchers used nanotechnology in biomedical diagnostics - a process called nanodiagnostics - to create a new, ultrasensitive DNA biosensor. The new sensor could potentially detect DNA-based biomarkers for early diagnosis of cancer and genetic disorders, as well as monitor patient responses to therapies.

Scientists Hope to Use Wearable Data to Predict COVID-19

Researchers and their collaborators aim to predict the onset of viral infection through data provided by wearable technology.

Six-Junction Solar Cell Sets Two World Records for Efficiency

Scientists have fabricated a solar cell with an efficiency of nearly 50%. The six-junction solar cell now holds the world record for the highest solar conversion efficiency at 47.1%, which was measured under concentrated illumination. A variation of the same cell also set the efficiency record under one-sun illumination at 39.2%.

Underwater Robots can Boost Ocean Discoveries

Underwater robots are regularly used by the oil and gas industry to inspect and maintain offshore structures. The same machines could be adapted to gather extra scientific information, thus boosting environmental and resource management capabilities, an Australian-led study has revealed.

Fraunhofer FEP

Fraunhofer FEP is one of many Fraunhofer institutes across Germany. This profile examines their recent work on image sensors that combine a silicon backplane with an organic light absorbing layer to extend the wavelength detection range into the SWIR region.

Quantib

Quantib's software is able to detect abnormalities that radiologists can't see with the naked eye. The company makes all the information captured in medical images available to radiologists, so they can detect diseases before symptoms start showing. The AI algorithms developed by Quantib help to identify specific brain disorders months before radiologists could perceive them using conventional methods.

Therapixel

Therapixel applies artificial intelligence (AI) to medical imaging. Using various forms of AI, the company develops products to help healthcare professionals access images more easily and gain more value from them.

Lunit

Lunit, abbreviated from "learning unit," is a Medical AI software company devoted to developing advanced medical image analytics and novel imaging biomarkers via cutting-edge deep learning technology. The company was founded in 2013 by six scientists from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Its initial interest was breast cancer, but the company has now moved to all kinds of chest diseases. Its end goal is to provide more AI solutions to enable the earlier diagnosis of disease or to predict its onset altogether. It focuses on oncology and radiology.

Subtle Medical

Unlike most AI radiology companies, Subtle Medical focuses on image acquisition rather than analysis. It is developing software solutions to improve the capture of high-quality medical images. More specifically, it transforms low resolution scans taken rapidly (eg: in 6 minutes) into high resolution scans that normally can only be obtained by running scans for 20+ minutes.

Norway Approves Floating Offshore Wind Project

The Ministry of Petroleum and Industry has approved the plans for development and operation of the Hywind Tampen wind farm. The Snorre and Gullfaks platforms will be the first platforms in the world to receive power from a floating offshore wind farm.

Courage + Khazaka Electronic

IDTechEx analyst Nadia Tsao interviewed Courage + Khazaka Managing Director Georg Khazaka on 5 November 2019. Courage + Khazaka offer a comprehensive range of skin analysis devices for both scientific and cosmetic industries.

Ceramic Based Flexible Electrolyte Sheets for Lithium Metal Batteries

Researchers have developed a new method to make ceramic-based flexible electrolyte sheets for lithium metal batteries.

Scavenger Technology Allows Robots to Eat Metal for Energy

When electronics need their own power sources, there are two basic options: batteries and harvesters. Batteries store energy internally, but are therefore heavy and have a limited supply. Harvesters, such as solar panels, collect energy from their environments. This gets around some of the downsides of batteries but introduces new ones, in that they can only operate in certain conditions and can't turn that energy into useful power very quickly.

Carbon Nanostructure Stronger Than Diamonds

Researchers have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices - nanometer-sized carbon structures - that are stronger than diamonds as a ratio of strength to density.