Researchers have developed a new hybrid material of mesoporous silicon microparticles and carbon nanotubes that can improve the performance of silicon in Li-ion batteries.

Semi-transparent solar cells that can be incorporated into window glass are a "game-changer" that could transform architecture, urban planning and electricity generation.

IDTechEx will be hosting a free webinar on Thursday 7 May 2020. Where Is the Future of COVID-19 Diagnostics? will be presented by IDTechEx Technology Analyst, Dr Luyun Jiang.

Researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate.

Conductive ink business is inherently wonderfully diverse. This has allowed the industry to rejuvenate itself time and time again and to remain very relevant through generations of product lifecycles.

Soft materials, such as rubber or polymers that can endure drastic changes to their shape, are promising for applications where flexibility and shapeshifting abilities are paramount. For example, these materials can be used to create soft robots suited for specialized tasks, ranging from medical devices that could navigate around inside the body to robots for search-and-rescue missions that can squeeze through small openings.

IDTechEx will be hosting a free 30-minute webinar on Wednesday 29 April 2020. Miniaturised Gas Sensors for Environmental Monitoring will be presented by IDTechEx Technology Analyst, Dr Luyun Jiang.

Data can drive insights, increase efficiency, and provide detailed information about current water and wastewater networks. The water industry is one which has many unknowns, and more data can provide help to this mature and large industry.

This premium article is a drill down from the recent premium article, "Outlook for Graphene's Role in Supercapacitors". That looked at the science and the players. Here we survey historical research achievements and in particularly present our new survey appraising recent research papers on the subject and particularly research progress and trends in 2019-20.

The carbon fiber industry has seen healthy growth in the 21st century. This is after a long lead in period and demand from certain key industries.

While flexible electronics have been around for years, either as flexible PCBs or genuinely printed electronics, there has always been a trade-off between flexibility and capability. A new report from IDTechEx discusses the innovation trends, opportunities and challenges in the FHE market.

Bumps on a road slow down our pace, so do corrugations in graphene to travelling electrons. By flattening the corrugations out, we help electrons move effectively faster through a graphene sheet.

Flexible hybrid electronics: Challenges for die attachment and R2R production. We define flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) as "Devices that combine the flexibility and low cost of printed plastic film substrates with the performance of semiconductor devices."

From a commercial point of view, this article appraises the latest research in active materials for supercapacitors SC and their derivatives. Opportunities include; graphene, CNT, MOF, CNF, ionic electrolytes, structural, flexible, wearable.

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd has announced the development of the world's first adhesive sheet composed of carbon nanotubes with extremely high thermal conductivity of up to 100 W/mK. Carbon nanotubes have high thermal conductivity and represent a promising candidate for heat dissipation from heat sources including semiconductor devices.

An ultralight flexible solar cell, 10 times thinner than the width of a human hair, could hold the key to promising power sources for future wearable technology.

Printed batteries, displays, temperature, humidity and genetic sensors... Over the last two years, the European project INNPAPER has been developing these electronic items, using only paper and conductive inks. Now the technology is almost ready to be used, and the project has launched an Open Call, looking for initiatives in the electronics field that have innovative ideas on how to use the project's devices. The call will be open from today until June 1st.

An international group of scientists has proposed a method that allows for significantly increasing the efficiency of solar cells and light-emitting diodes. The scientists managed to achieve this result by augmenting the auxiliary layers of the devices responsible for electron transport rather than working with the main active layer.

The solar modules on the car cover provide supplementary power to the vehicle and increase its range up to an additional 15km per day with a target of 30km per day within 3 years, based on 8 hours' outside exposure of the vehicle per day.