The first commercial application of grapheme-based inks will appear in major retail stores in the US in Q1/2012 according to US companies Vorbeck Materials Corp. and MWV Packaging.

Screen Printing is one of the more established technologies utilised in the manufacture of what a lot would consider "conventional" electronics. And although they represent a hybrid state between fully printable electronics and electronics processed in silicon fabs, they also represent the intermediate step that leads to more accurate, fully automated atmospheric processing at very high volumes, with equally high yields.

IDTechEx, the organiser of the World's largest global series of Printed Electronics events will hold its European show in Berlin, Germany on April 3-4 (www.IDTechEx.com/peEUROPE). The focus, as at all IDTechEx events, is to address the needs and experiences of adopters of the technology.

Most of the well-known objectives of printed electronics remain elusive because they are glamorous, Olympian dreams based on some very exciting demonstrations in laboratories.

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), a nonprofit research center has developed a highly flexible electronic paper that's both re-writable and re-usable, and doesn't require electricity to retain the screen image. Licensing talks are already underway with ChangChun Plastics who plan to begin pilot production of a product next year.

Researchers of the Opto-electronic Materials section of TU Delft and Toyota Europe have demonstrated that several mobile electrons can be produced by the absorption of a single light particle in films of coupled quantum dots.

The Paper Battery Company has been selected to receive a $1 million award.

UK companies are being invited to take part in a competition for funding for collaborative research and development projects that aim to develop and stimulate technology within the European Organic and Large Area Electronics (OLAE) community.

The development of low power electronics and devices for integration into the type of active lifestyles that are characteristic of modern humans is a vibrant area of research. Whether the electronics are wearable, epidermal, edible or even implantable, developments are taking place worldwide with new concepts, designs and prototypes that could change everyday life with minimal intrusiveness.

Combination of Thinfilm printed rewritable memory and PARC transistors enables low-cost, printed integrated systems for the "Internet of things".

Scientists develop new nanomaterial that steers current in multiple dimensions.

UBC researchers invent tiny artificial muscles with the strength, flexibility of elephant trunk

New method of growing high-quality graphene promising for next-generation technology.

Key customers testing Tera-Barrier's prototype product have reported a doubling of lifetime of their devices under accelerated lifetime testing, allowing Tera-Barrier to move to the next stage of growth.

E InkHoldings the pioneer of TFT and ePaper business, has experienced record high sales revenues in September, with September stand alone revenues totaling NT$ 3.802 billion, representing a growth of 143% compared to last year, and a growth of 44 percent compared to last month.

Scientists at the University of Manchester have come one step closer to creating the next generation of computer chips using wonder material graphene.

Electron superhighway could pave way for creation of elusive quantum-particle pairs

According to the World Bank, 1.6Bn people, over one fifth of the world's population, lack access to electricity via a grid and pay high prices for kerosene to serve basic needs such as lighting. Solar lamps and phone chargers have been available for some time but the initial cost is beyond the reach of many potential users. Now Eight19, a developer and manufacturer of printed plastic solar technology has an inexpensive pay-as-you-go, personal solar electricity system for the developing world.

Creative Materials, Inc., has developed a line of anisotropic conductive adhesives that are recommended for a wide range of applications, including LCD manufacturing, surface-mount connections in electronic devices, and RFID antenna assembly.

Boston College researchers have discovered two early-stage phases of carbon nanotube growth during plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition, finding a disorderly tangle of tube growth that ultimately yields to orderly rows of the nanoscopic tubes, according to a report in the latest edition of the journal Nanotechnology.