When closely evaluating today’s situation in healthcare, the immediacy for digital transformation clearly becomes evident. Building a strong digital infrastructure which lays the foundation to a connected and transparent system and even more importantly allow efficient and individualised patient treatment, has become a key societal target – not at least due to Covid-19. Digital devices for remote patient monitoring are part of this digital transformation. In fact, the market for medical health patch applications has been estimated to reach approx. US$9.9bn by 2024. Therefore Henkel Printed Electronics and Quad Industries, a printed electronics specialist from Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, are strengthening their partnership to capture and seize this market potential.
Plastic Logic, a leader in the design and manufacture of flexible, glass-free electrophoretic displays (EPDs), is enabling 878 to show readable navigational and other data on the sleeve of the world’s first smart sailing jacket, Project One.
Solliance partners TNO, imec/EnergyVille and the Eindhoven University of Technology, realised an 18.6% efficient highly near infrared transparent perovskite solar cell. When combined in a four terminal tandem configuration with an efficient Panasonic crystalline silicon (c-Si) cell or with a Miasolé flexible CIGS cell, it delivers new record power conversion efficiencies of 28.7% and 27.0%, respectively.
