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BASF inaugurates new research building

Thursday 23 July 2015
Companies / Markets

BASF SE, a leading chemical, plastics and performance products company, has inaugurated a new research building at its headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany, after two years of construction. The building accommodates around 200 employees of the research division Advanced Materials & Systems Research, who have so far worked in different buildings in Ludwigshafen.

OPV module with eight cells in series, fully manufactured by inkjet printing

CEA-Liten announces first fully inkjet-manufactured flexible PV modules

Tuesday 21 July 2015
Products

The organic/hybrid printed photovoltaic field is growing and reaching the production scale, where the development of large area processes is urgently needed. To this aim, researchers from CEA-Liten, based at the French Institut National de l’Energie Solaire (INES), have developed a flexible organic photovoltaic module manufactured entirely by inkjet printing processes.

The Ferngrove wine bottle with technology from Thinfilm and G World

Thinfilm and G World unveil first “Smart Wine Bottle”

Thursday 16 July 2015
Products

Thin Film Electronics ASA, a leading developer of printed electronics and smart systems from Oslo, Norway, has announced a partnership with the G World Group, a global authentication company based in Australia specialising in transparency and accountability solutions. The partnership will unveil the industry’s first “smart wine bottle” with printed electronics technology.

Displays with technology from Qlight Nanotech

Merck to fully acquire Qlight Nanotech

Thursday 09 July 2015
Companies / Markets

Merck KGaA, a leading company for innovative healthcare, life science and performance materials based in Darmstadt, Germany, has announced that it is acquiring the remaining stake in Qlight Nanotech Ltd. (Jerusalem, Israel), and will hold 100% of the company. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

Resistance measurement on a crumpled printed 125µm thick PET sheet

Poly-Ink announces breakthrough in substituting ITOs

Monday 06 July 2015
Products

Poly-Ink, a French-based company which develops and commercialises carbon nanotubes (CNT) and silver nanowires-based transparent and conductive materials to be printed and/or coated on various substrates, has come up with a new solution to substitute indium tin oxide (ITO). Nanowire-based material combined with crystal micro fibrils (MFC) creates Poly-Ink’s so-called PolyBioWire, which is reported to offer performances that are identical or better than ITO.