At ISSCC 2013, Holst Centre and imec have presented an innovative method for the power-management of piezoelectric energy harvesters.

The electronic book industry is booming; nearly a quarter of Americans are reading e-books, and sales of e-book readers and tablets — including Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and Apple's iPad — continue to grow.

The University of Leeds is leading a £5.7 million, government-backed initiative to transform the way replacement joints and other medical implants are made.

The Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Medical Devices will bring together academics and industrialists in a bid to maintain the UK's leading role in the medical technologies industry and improve the quality of lives of patients.

Nearly 200 renowned inventors and innovators from more than 60 universities, research institutes and governmental agencies worldwide gathered recently for the second annual meeting of the National Academy of Inventors, held at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa.

The Biopolymers and Biocomposites Research Team (BBRT) at Iowa State University has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) planning grant to develop a center at that will focus on bioplastics and biocomposites.

OLED lighting seems to have been on hiatus as of late. While there were no serious setbacks in 2012, it would be hard to say that the industry moved closer to becoming the mass market product that it was expected to be in the 2015/16 time frame.

Research at The University of Nottingham that could help the UK manufacturing industry to remain competitive by evolving to meet future challenges is in line for a multi-million pound funding boost.

Rice University process is part of USDA project to develop energy from biomass

"Green" chemistry developed at Rice University is at the center of a new government effort to turn plant waste into fatty acids, and then into fuel.

Project with Sandia National Laboratories leads to promising optoelectronic device

Researchers at Rice University and Sandia National Laboratories have made a nanotube-based photodetector that gathers light in and beyond visible wavelengths.

New analysis points the way to optimizing efficiency of an integrated system for harvesting sunlight to make storable fuel.

A new £12m national centre, led by Heriot-Watt University, will develop new ways of using lasers in manufacturing, enabling industry to take advantage of the latest innovations and developments in this rapidly growing field.

NSF grantee Vorbeck, one of the first companies to produce graphene-based products, is expanding its operations

Nanotechnologies exist in the realm of billionths of a meter, with tolerances that push the limits of manufacturing--so it can be hard to imagine a factory that can turn out such products on a commercial scale.