Henkel has announced the appointment of Mr. Luc Godefroid as the company's Global Sales Director for its Semiconductor Group.

Kodak plans to restructure OLED business with new partners and business model changes.

TTP and ImageXpert Inc. are pleased to announce a collaboration to supply a complete ink development tool that will speed up inkjet printhead, ink and system development.

Johnson Matthey Silver & Coating Technologies have a new range of inks for use in the manufacture of printed circuits.

Printed electronics is used in several forms of energy harvesting, so we thought we would share this dramatic opportunity with you although it is not yet clear what technology is involved. A shock absorber that harnesses energy from small bumps in the road could save a company such as Wal-Mart $13 million a year in fuel costs by converting its fleet of trucks.

Plastic Logic announce plans to amass one of the largest collections of content available for an eReader at the same time Amazon unveil Kindle 2.

LEDs have taken three percent of the global lighting market while we have been waiting for OLEDs in anything more than very specialist applications.

InkSure Technologies Inc. a provider of covert machine-readable security solutions for the prevention of counterfeiting, fraud and diversion, and a developer of a unique new chipless RFID technology announced that Mr. David Wallace has joined InkSure as Director of Sales for the Americas.

Plextronics, Inc. hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony recently at its headquarters in Pittsburgh to celebrate the opening of the company's first manufacturing development line (D-Line).

A $10 laptop may be available in a year suggest officials of the Indian Government.

Recent experiments conducted by Greg Scholes and Elisabetta Collini of University of Toronto´s Department of Chemistry may bring inexpensive solar cells within closer reach, thanks to new insights into the way molecules absorb and move energy.

There were many users and potential users at the Energy Harvesting Workshop and they were far from being hooked on any one technology - Read part II of Dr Peter's Harrop's report.

The 4th Annual Energy Harvesting Workshop organised on 28-29 January by Virginia Tech in Blacksberg Virginia was largely academic and biased toward piezoelectrics which are moving up to rival photovoltaics in potential energy harvesting applications.

Tiny solar cells that power tiny microelectronic machines (MEMS) could be sprayed onto a soldiers backpack, uniform or military vehicle possibly eliminating the use of heavy portable batteries carried by soldiers for their electrical requirements.

Next-generation, ultra-thin rechargeable batteries for micro devices such as smart cards, portable sensors and RFID tags could be used in energy harvesting applications suggest IDTechEx.

New research showing greater efficiency from solar photovoltaic cells has drawn considerable industry interest.

Creative Materials' translucent conductive ink and coating features excellent adhesion to a wide variety of substrates without prior surface treatments.

It has been found that certain nanoparticles can be dispersed through a material and migrate to cracks so efficiently that self-healing composites, that repair themselves when damaged, can be envisaged.

Solar technologies are being adopted globally with strong growth predicted in the sector despite the current poor state of the world economy.

Pacothane Technologies LLC has introduced a technologically advanced, totally new Conformable Release Film that is specifically engineered to dramatically improve production yields and to simplify and standardize the process of laminating Cover-Layers to Flexible Printed Circuit Boards.