BMW Group invests 200 million euros in Battery Cell Competence Centre

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Focus on technological expertise in battery-cell development and production Fifth-generation electric drivetrain integrates electric motor, transmission and power electronics in a single component Rare-earth-free electric motor ensures resource independence The... Read More

Samsung Forecast to Top Intel as the #1 Semiconductor Supplier in 2017

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Nvidia expected to make its first appearance in the top 10 ranking this year. IC Insights will release its November Update to the 2017 McClean Report later this month.  This Update includes a 2017-2021 semiconductor market... Read More

A new way to store thermal energy

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MIT researchers create material for a chemical heat “battery” that could release its energy on demand. In large parts of the developing world, people have abundant heat from the sun... Read More

Imec designs and fabricates world-first miniature neural probe for simultaneous recording of multiple brain regions at neuronal resolution

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Imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technologies, has designed and fabricated a breakthrough neural probe for the parallel recording of hundreds of neural signals. The... Read More

Helping DARPA test space technologies to protect against emerging threats

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DARPA has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop an innovative space evaluation and analysis testbed The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth... Read More

European Partners to Establish Nanopharmaceutical Pilot Line

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The NANOFACTURING consortium today announced that it has made significant progress towards the establishment of a pilot line and the design of a commercial scale manufacturing line for the production... Read More

Researchers develop flexible, stretchable photonic devices

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Researchers at MIT and several other institutions have developed a method for making photonic devices — similar to electronic devices but based on light rather than electricity — that can... Read More

Wallpaper bio-solar panel developed by researchers

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A two-in-one solar bio-battery and solar panel has been created by researchers who printed living cyanobacteria and circuitry onto paper. Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic micro-organisms that have been on Earth for... Read More