MIT: Smart textiles sense how their users are moving


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Using a novel fabrication process, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have produced smart textiles that snugly conform to the body so they can sense the wearer’s posture and motions.

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E Ink listed as one of the Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders in 2022


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E Ink (Billerica, Massachusetts), the pioneer and global commercial leader in digital paper technology, has recently been listed as one of the Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders in 2022 in a report by the Financial Times, Nikkei and Statista.

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Avery Dennison launches new dual-frequency RFID inlay for industrial and healthcare applications


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The Avery Dennison Corporation (Mentor, Ohio) has recently launched another addition to its expanding dual-frequency (DF) range of RFID inlays, which provides combined NFC (HF) and RAIN RFID (UHF) functionality for cost-effective item-level tagging in a slimmed-down form factor.

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EPFL and CSEM set two new certified world records for perovskite-on-silicon-tandem solar cells


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For the first time, an efficiency of 30% for perovskite-on-silicon-tandem solar cells has been exceeded thanks to a joint effort led by scientists at EPFL’s Photovoltaics and Thin Film Electronics Laboratory in partnership with the renowned innovation centre, CSEM (Neuchâtel, Switzerland). Independently certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the United States, these results are a boost to high-efficiency photovoltaics (PV) and pave the way toward even more competitive solar electricity generation.

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NTU Singapore scientists develop fabric that turns body movement into electricity


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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a stretchable and waterproof ‘fabric’ that turns energy generated from body movements into electrical energy.

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