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IDTechEx: structural electronics - never heard of it!

Structural electronics is one of the most important developments this century yet most people have never heard of it.

New technique offers spray-on solar power

Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap.

Emerging technologies and materials for 3D printing

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Tuesday 16 December discussing emerging technologies and materials for 3D printing.

Setting a course for carbon-free shipping

In conjunction with Fjellstrand, a Norwegian shipyard, Siemens has developed the technology for the world's first electrically-powered car ferry. The fact that the electric ship, which will enter service in 2015, causes no carbon dioxide emissions is in part due to the electricity mix in Norway.

New technique offers spray-on solar power

Researchers at the University of Toronto, and IBM Canada's Research and Development Centre have just invented a new way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using miniscule light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs)—a major step toward making spray-on solar cells easy and cheap to manufacture.

Electric vehicles trends and opportunities

IDTechEx are hosting a free webinar on Monday 15 December discussing electric vehicles trends and opportunities.

BeBop Sensors

BeBop sensors spun out from KMI in 2014. They provide flexible, smart textile sensors for OEMs, mainly based around measuring pressure, strain or torsion. They use print sensors onto fabrics using stretchable inks, and have excellent form factor.

Nanoparticle network could bring fast-charging batteries

A new electrode design for lithium-ion batteries has been shown to potentially reduce the charging time from hours to minutes by replacing the conventional graphite electrode with a network of tin-oxide nanoparticles.

Canada scores a hat trick at printed electronics' top industry event

In true national form, Canada's delegation to the Printed Electronics USA 2014 conference made a lasting impression, thanks in no small part to a strong performance on the ice.

Production tools to enable Printed Electronics

In this video, NovaCentrix explains how to move from research and development through to commercial production

Atmospheric carbon dioxide used for energy storage products

Chemists and engineers have discovered a fascinating new way to take some of the atmospheric carbon dioxide that's causing the greenhouse effect and use it to make an advanced, high-value material for use in energy storage products.

High-temperature thermoelectric generator for U.S. military

The successful demonstration of a 1,000W TEG designed for diesel engine exhaust heat recapture.

JnJ Innovations: A View on Medical Wearables

Johnson & Johnson Innovations are a technology scouting, analysis and acquisitions arm of Johnson & Johnson. They have 4 innovation centres in the world; two in the USA (West & East Coast), in London and in Shanghai. Their role is to identify current research in their fields of interest, and then help to develop it towards commercial applications. This discussion is centered around wearable technologies.

EEVC Belgium: Lessons from the first day

This two yearly event again had about 400 delegates. Once again it provided a forum for the huge number of European and global EV related organisations with overlapping agendas. Of the hundreds of millions of dollars they spend each year, too much goes on soft topics such as consumer attitudes to car models that will not be with us for long or how cars may form a meaningful part of a smart grid over ten years from now.

Shaping the future of energy storage with conductive clay

In the race to find materials of ever increasing thinness, surface area and conductivity to make better performing battery electrodes, a lump of clay might have just taken the lead.

Detecting defects in solar cells

Researchers have developed a new technique for efficiently detecting malfunctioning areas of a PV module.

Mapping the 3D Printing Equipment Landscape

IDTechEx has diligently compiled data on various 3D printing technologies on the market. The data has been compiled from all the key players in the industry. We have used data analytics to map the landscape on the basis of speed, price, precision and build volume. We have visualised our analysis, thus generating unique insight into the market positioning of 3D printing equipment suppliers. This analysis will help our clients identify whitespaces within the 3D printing landscape.

Fully flexible touch screen sensor technology

The DRAS technology delivers greater functionality and control to overcome the many limitations of today's smart phone and tablet capacitive touch screens including true flexibility, finger force sensing, accidental use and expensive integration.

Efficiency breakthrough for solar devices

Researchers have successfully synthesised one-dimensional graphenised carbon nanofibre to demonstrate an efficiency breakthrough in silicon-based solar cells.