It is interesting that the new ways of using energy harvesting are often seen first in consumer goods where budgets are tight rather in less price sensitive industrial and military applications.

Nanoparticle inks could be used to print solar cells like newspaper, or painted onto the side of buildings or rooftops to produce electricity.

IDTechEx is hosting the world's largest event on Energy Harvesting & Storage on November 3-4 in Denver, CO, USA. Uniquely, the focus of the event is to address requirements from end users from a range of different vertical industries.

Nanotechnology advance could lead to smaller, faster, more energy-efficient computer chips

DecaWave has shipped the first 5 evaluation kits of its groundbreaking product ScenSor chip to technology firms in the US, Germany, France, Israel and Korea.

IDTechEx presented at the well-attended FlexTech Alliance meeting at Binghamton, NY, last week. The session focussed on the use of printed and flexible electronics for medical applications.

Printed silicon transistors are now receiving increasing attention because they can provide good transistor characteristics at low cost on flexible substrates, including high frequency performance.

The engine of the new printed electronics will be printed transistors on flexible substrates that can be one tenth to one hundredth of the cost of those in simple silicon chips.

The World's first video in print advertisement will appear in next months edition of the American show biz magazine "Entertainment Weekly". The screen uses thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT LCD) technology.

Rogers Corporation have recently announced that it has made a strategic investment of $5 million in Solicore, Inc., headquartered in Lakeland, Florida.

Korean company NeoLux has developed a flashing electronic display that combines motion with the visual appeal of ink-on-paper - the same technology used by many e-readers available today.

$14 million funding will enable Plextronics to continue to advance their OLED lighting and OPV products.

Mathematicians develop a new cloaking method that might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis.

FlexTech Alliance awards contract to Solarmer Energy, Inc. to enhance performance and efficiency for organic photovoltaics. The solution is a top candidate for manufacturing low-cost, reliable, flexible & clean power.

About 30 years ago, it was discovered that some plastics, or polymers, could conduct electricity. Since then researchers have been working to make them more efficient.

Researchers report the first direct observation and controlled creation of one- and two-dimensional ripples in graphene sheets. Using simple thermal manipulation, the researchers produced the ripples, and controlled their orientation, wavelength and amplitude.

Enabling magazines and newspapers to easily publish content to the Plastic Logic eReader.

The board of Enfucell has appointed Mr. Marko Hanhikorpi, M. Sc. (Chem. Eng.), eMBA, as new CEO commencing August 12, 2009.

Plextronics becomes the first company to deploy organic solar modules at NREL's outdoor testing facility.