TechBlick, the leading platform for emerging technologies, has announced that it will hold its first physical event in Eindhoven on 12 & 13 October 2022. TechBlick LIVE, The Future of Electronics RESHAPED will be a 2-day conference and table-top exhibition on re-shaping the future of electronics focusing on the key topics of printed, flexible, additive, hybrid, wearable, textile, 3D, structural and in-mold electronics.
This cutting-edge event will attract the global community from innovators and material suppliers to equipment makers, manufacturers and end-users - who will all gather in Eindhoven to reshape the future of electronics.

Khasha, CEO & Founder of TechBlick said "we are responding to overwhelming demand from our members and exhibitors to host a physical event. We have an outstanding reputation for the quality of our agenda and this will continue in Eindhoven with a world-class speaker programme. We will of course be continuing with our popular year-round virtual platform too".

The event takes place on the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven known as the smartest km in Europe. It is an ecosystem of over 235 high tech companies and home to over 12,000 innovators, researchers and engineers creating the technologies for the businesses of tomorrow. As part of the event, TechBlick will be hosting tours to some of the innovative companies working on the campus.

"We are so excited to be hosting our first physical event. Along with a superb speaker programme, we will be ...

In the development and manufacturing of microfluidic consumables bonding is often a challenge as well as an essential process that must be scalable and cost-efficient. Other parameters that are critical for this process are that the bond is stable and does not leak. Imaging often plays an important role especially in diagnostic testing, so the optical properties of a bonded part are also often of importance. As the consumable will likely be in contact with biological materials it is often required to eliminate the contact to glues or keep it to a minimum. At Axxicon we developed a bonding process that addresses these challenges and is based on a precision printing process using modified UV glues. The glue will be printed in a defined pattern around the microfluidic structures. The process is defined in three steps: 1. Designing The print design is custom-made per product and is completely adaptable. Creating a design can be done as early as in the design for manufacturing phase (DFM) of the product. There are only a few limitations that need to be kept in mind. Because of the printing technique used there is minimal space required between microfluidic features. And adding alignment features increases the level of accuracy to 3-5µm on x- and y-axis. Printing Using alignment features makes it possible to print on complex structures and non-conform outer shapes of products with very high precision. The printing process is optimized per product. By tweaking the design and paramet...

New EverVolt 2.0 Home Battery delivers enhanced customization, flexible design, and outdoor-rated performance for energy-conscious consumers Panasonic announced the latest innovation in its robust solar energy portfolio of Total Home Energy Solution offerings, the EverVolt™ 2.0. A result of Panasonic’s ongoing commitment to developing advanced solar and energy storage technologies, EverVolt 2.0 offers enhancements for greater customization and features a convenient modular footprint and weatherproof design. The new EverVolt 2.0 provides continuous power output of 7.6 kW off-grid a and 9.6 kW with grid, enough to power an average household load, and boasts two energy storage capacity 17.1 kWh or 25.65 kWh (usable capacity) per system. The system can be AC- and DC-coupled, allowing it to work with both new and existing solar energy systems. EverVolt 2.0 is comprised of two primary components: the floor-standing battery cabinet and a hybrid smart inverter with 4 MPPTs, and offers simple installation and flexible placement either inside or outside, thanks to its weatherproof design with an outdoor protection rating of IP55 (NEMA 3R).
Other features of the Panasonic EverVolt 2.0 Home Battery include:
A modular design that allows homeowners to tailor their energy storage solution to their needs; up to three systems can be stacked together to obtain more power output and energy storage capacity Multiple operating modes, including back-up mode, residential mode, t...

A microfluidic chip takes up a water sample, adds the necessary chemicals, and transports it to the detection site. What's the point? In this way, the water is to be analyzed fully automatically and with various parameters and at the lowest possible cost. A further developed chip prototype for water analysis devices has emerged from the MICROCHIP project at Fraunhofer Institute for Microengineering and Microsystems IMM. Whether in the waterworks, laboratory, in a swimming pool or from the tap - who would not like to have a quick and easy water analysis at hand. With the microfluidic lab-on-a-chip developed in the MICROCHIP project, samples can be analyzed fully automatically from just a few drops in a short time. Thus enabling personnel without training to detect six parameters relevant to water analysis in parallel with a low-cost measuring device additionally saves time and costs. Furthermore, user errors are eliminated with this methodology. Reagents cannot be mixed up and the amount of water suitable for the method is set by the chip. Mirror instead of transparency The chip achieves high measurement accuracy. Among other things, this is possible due to an extended path length and an adapted design that keeps the chip compact. Instead of an originally planned transmission solution, the project partners opted for a so-called mirror solution. The re-design of the hardware with different colored LEDs ultimately enables analytics for the photometry-based measurement metho...

Stanford Medicine researchers created an algorithm to notify smartwatch wearers of stress, capturing events such as air travel, extended exercise, and illness. Using data from smartwatches, a new algorithm reads heart rate as a proxy for physiological or mental stress, potentially alerting wearers they’re falling ill before they have symptoms.
Researchers led by Michael Snyder, Ph.D., professor and chair of genetics, have enrolled thousands of participants in a study that employs the algorithm to look for extended periods during which heart rate is higher than normal — a telltale sign that something may be amiss. But figuring out what may be wrong takes a little sleuthing. During the study, many stressors triggered an alert. Some folks received them while traveling; some while running a marathon; others after over-indulging at the bar. The most exciting finding, Snyder said, was that the algorithm was able to detect 80% of confirmed COVID-19 cases before or when participants were symptomatic.
“The idea is for people to eventually use this information to decide whether they need to get a COVID-19 test or self-isolate,” Snyder said. “We’re not there yet — we still need to test this in clinical trials — but that’s the ultimate goal.”
The algorithm can’t differentiate between someone who’s knocked back a few too many, someone’s who’s stressed because of work, and someone who’s ill with a virus. Although it pinged users who had COVID-19, more refining is needed before people...

FOM Technologies is now a subcontractor of advanced equipment for the Power-to-X technology. This is done through the delivery of slot-die equipment to Danish Haldor Topsøe, which is one of the leading international players in the areas of energy storage and green fuels. FOM sees a great future commercial potential in the Power-to-X technology and its application, in connection with the global transition to a fossil-free world.
FOM Technologies is proud to announce the company’s first Danish commercial customer. This is achieved by Haldor Topsøe awarding FOM an order for the company’s flagship slot-die coater. The equipment will be used in the development of Power-to-X technology, which includes energy storage of electricity from wind turbines, which is then converted to hydrogen or other future fuels.
CEO of FOM Technologies Michael Stadi says: “It is a great honor to supply equipment for a Danish technological pioneer throughout decades. Haldor Topsøe is a world leader in their field, and we see an exciting future global potential in the Power-to-X technology, which is still in its infancy. With December just ahead of us, we will do our utmost to ensure that our equipment is delivered before Christmas. For more information, visit: https://www.fomtechnologies.com/news/fom-technologies-signs-first-power-to-x-equipment-contract?utm_campaign=Investor%20related%20content&utm_content=189621125&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin&hss_channel=lcp-2756722...

First Graphene Limited (ASX: FGR; “First Graphene” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the achievement of a critical milestone on its program to develop high-performing supercapacitor materials. Previously, the Company reported that high capacitance “hybrid active materials” could be successfully scaled using its unique electrochemical process technology. These novel materials demonstrated high capacitance per unit area when tested in a simple cell prototype. Recent work has focused on the development of an optimized bill of materials for a supercapacitor device to deliver a high energy and power densities. First Graphene is now pleased to announce that following multiple laboratory trials, the Company has demonstrated that in a standard test cell, PureGRAPH® hybrid active materials outperform leading activated carbon materials over 100 cycles. Figure 1 shows the PureGRAPH® hybrid active materials have a specific capacitance of 140 farads per gram (F/g) while activated carbon cells typically have a specific capacitance of 35 F/g. This clearly demonstrates that PureGRAPH® hybrid active materials can be successfully formulated into an electrode slurry for use in device manufacture, retaining their high specific capacitance and operating at high charge/discharge rates. A detailed literature review indicates that further progress to higher power density and energy density devices requires the development of improved supercapacitor devices. The research focus switched ...

Like solar panels and wind turbines, the price of lithium-ion batteries has plummeted over this century, with a study from March estimating that cost has dropped by 97% worldwide since their introduction in 1991. Now, the same team of researchers has sought to explain why the price has fallen so much. Publishing their results in Energy and Environmental Science " Determinants of lithium-ion battery technology cost decline", they say that research and development (R&D), particularly in chemistry and materials science, has been the major factor in dropping the price of the batteries. The researchers, who are based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, examined a range of different financial and scientific documents from the past 30 years.“The data collection effort was extensive,” says co-author Dr Micah Ziegler. “We looked at academic articles, industry and government reports, press releases, and specification sheets. We even looked at some legal filings that came out. We had to piece together data from many different sources to get a sense of what was happening.” In total, according to Ziegler, the researchers collected “about 15,000 qualitative and quantitative data points, across 1000 individual records from approximately 280 references”. The researchers have previously used this method to examine the dropping price of solar cells and rising costs of nuclear energy. "We estimate that the majority of the cost decline, more than 50 percent, came from rese...