Bayer MaterialScience intends to focus its development activities more intently on topics that are closely linked to its core business. For that reason the company will bring its work on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to a close.

E Ink Holdings has announced the upcoming release of E Ink Mobius, a new flexible electronic paper display (EPD) technology.

Using bundles of vertical zinc oxide nanowires, researchers have fabricated arrays of piezotronic transistors capable of converting mechanical motion directly into electronic controlling signals.

Variously called Printed, Flexible or Organic Electronics, it is one of the fastest growing technologies in the world. It is of vital interest to industries as diverse as consumer goods, healthcare, mobility, electronics, media and architecture.

IDTechEx Research finds that the electroactive polymer (EAP) market will be US$ 245 million in 2013.

The energy can be used at will to change the transparency and reflectivity of fixtures and windows depending on environmental conditions, such as temperature and brightness.

Dr. Taichi Ikeda (Senior Researcher) of the NIMS Electronic Functional Materials Group, Polymer Materials Unit, in joint research with the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Germany), developed the world's first supramolecular thiophene nanosheets, which is a 2-dimensional sheet-type organic material with a thickness of 3.5nm.

When a team of University of Illinois engineers set out to grow nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene, they did not expect to discover a new paradigm of epitaxy.

The SBIR program is well recognized for supporting important technological advances.

IDTechEx held its Graphene LIVE! tradeshow and conference in Berlin over April 17-18, 2013. This event was co-located with Printed Electronics, TCF LIVE!, Energy Harvesting and Supercapacitor events.

The scope of the collaboration will be to research the properties of graphene contained matter as working material for 3D printing.

Mühlbauer and NovaCentrix are pleased to announce the establishment of a formal collaboration to bring to market advanced new RFID antenna manufacturing technology.

Attendance at last week's Printed Electronics Europe 2013 event grew by over 20%. The highly successful conference and tradeshow, hosted by IDTechEx, covered the broad range of emerging materials and devices, including OLEDs, touch surfaces, TFTs, stretchable and textile electronics, energy generation and much more. Presentations, exhibitors and attendees covered the full supply chain from materials to their final application in verticals such as the media, consumer electronics, the internet of things and even vehicles.

Researchers have developed ultrathin, flexible optoelectronic devices - including LEDs the size of individual neurons - that are lighting the way for neuroscientists in the field of optogenetics and beyond.

IDTechEx, the leading Research and Events company covering emerging technologies, has launched new subscription offerings across its range of topics.

As a proof of concept the team have shown how the combination of heat and low intensity visible and UV light could in future be used as a precise, low cost tool for 3D printing of self-assembling, thin-film circuits on these films.

Queen's University researchers have discovered a simple, cost-effective method for making new molecular materials similar to graphene, but with additional properties.