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CHASM Advanced Materials closes $15M in series C funding

Tuesday 31 August 2021
Companies / Markets

CHASM Advanced Materials, Inc., the inventor of nanotube hybrids – a new category of advanced materials, recently announced the completion of a $15M series C financing round led by WAVE Equity Partners, a Boston based private equity firm investing in clean energy, food, water, and materials companies with proven transformational technologies; joined by Birla Carbon, a leading global manufacturer and supplier of carbon solutions, as well as SWM International, a leading global performance materials company.

Epishine signs distribution agreement with Farnell to enable light energy harvesting within electronic design

Monday 30 August 2021
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Epishine, a Swedish manufacturer of printed organic solar cells and development kits, has signed a new franchise agreement with Farnell, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products and solutions. The new-to-market printed organic solar cells are optimised for harvesting energy from indoor, low energy lighting enabling organic solar power to be used everywhere. Design engineers can utilise this new and innovative technology with Epishine’s Light Energy Harvesting Evaluation Kit. Farnell is the first high service distributor to stock products from Epishine.

Chalmers University of Technology: Janus graphene opens doors to sustainable sodium-ion batteries

Wednesday 25 August 2021
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In the search for sustainable energy storage, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, present a new concept to fabricate high-performance electrode materials for sodium batteries. It is based on a novel type of graphene to store one of the world's most common and cheap metal ions – sodium. The results show that the capacity can match today’s lithium-ion batteries.

TechBlick: Innovation trends in the diverse area of printed, hybrid, in-mould and 3D electronics

Tuesday 24 August 2021
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In an article series, TechBlick (www.TechBlick.com) will highlight various innovation trends in the diverse area of printed, hybrid, in-mould, and 3D electronics. Their goal is to demonstrate progress and state-of-the-art on various fronts ranging from R2R on-paper printing to thin ICs to conductive inks to stretchable substrates to in-mould electronics and beyond.

PennState: Printing circuits on irregular surfaces with pulses of light

Friday 06 August 2021
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Printable electronics could cause a proliferation of smart, connected devices, from household appliances that can communicate with each other to medical diagnostic sensors that can be placed on the body to forgo invasive procedures. But the variety of printing surfaces poses a challenge, since a method used to print on a flat object may not be safe for use on human skin or applicable for complicated textures and shapes.