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Wearable Technologies 2010

1 January 2009
The 2nd Wearable Technologies Conference takes place on Feburary 8, 2010 at the Hotel Novotel Munich Messe in Munich, Germany, in parallel to the ISPO sportswear and equipment trade show.
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Baytubes as heavy duty marine coatings

1 January 2009
The Norwegian company Advanced Marine Coatings, based in Gamle Fredrikstad, specialises in the development of environmentally compatible, heavy-duty anti-corrosion coatings for sea-going vessels.
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New printed electronics spin-off

1 January 2009
The IMEC nanoelectronics research centre, Hasselt University and screen printing company Artist Screen, all based in Belgium, have announced a new spin-off called Lumoza to commercialise large area sc
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Wall Street Journal award for carbon nanotube yarns

1 December 2008
Nanocomp Technologies has received the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for materials and base technologies.
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US Department of Energy backs Oak Ridge

1 December 2008
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, has secured $8.4 million in funding from the US Department of Energy to further develop a number of nanomanufacturing technologies.
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Advanced Textiles '09 - a US-European networking event

1 December 2008
Building on the success of the first Advanced Textiles conference in June 2008, Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) has announced a second conference to be held from 2-3 April 2009 in
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Infineon powers latest Autoliv seatbelts

1 December 2008
Autoliv has selected Germany's Infineon as the sole supplier of power semiconductors for its next-generation seatbelt pretension systems, called Active Seatbelts.
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Intimate apparel additive for 'structural moisturisation'

1 December 2008
DermalRx HydroSeal, a proprietary ingredient of Applied DNA Sciences (APDN), headquartered in New York, has been incorporated into the fabric of a new range currently being test marketed by a global m
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Plastic Logic device gains award

1 December 2008
Plastic Logic has been recognised by the Plastic Electronics Foundation with one of its first awards for innovation.
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IsoNanotubes samples available

1 December 2008
Nanomaterials start-up company NanoIntegris, based in Smokie, Illinois, USA, has begun selling samples of its metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), which the company has
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Robotic muscle principle added to seating

1 December 2008
Oki Electric Industry has applied its advanced robotic technologies to a seating application and together with fellow Japanese company Okamura Corporation, a leading manufacturer of office furniture,
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Organics centre opens in Dresden

1 December 2008
COMMEDD - the Centre for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden - has just opened in Germany as part of the Frauenhofer Institutes, with the target of developing new processes for organic se
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Solar plan for Orlando's airport

1 December 2008
SKYShades is currently negotiating a project with Park Bark & Fly, an off-site parking lot near Orlando International Airport in Florida, USA, to cover 1,000 parking spaces with shade panels equip
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Disruptor PAC up for award

1 December 2008
Ahlstrom's Disruptor PAC nonwoven technology for the filtration of water has been nominated as one of the five finalists for INDA's 2009 Visionary Award, which is given annually to a new consumer prod
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EnOcean Alliance for intelligent green buildings

1 December 2008
Powered by tiny amounts of energy drawn from light, movement or changes in temperature in their surrounding environment, EnOcean sensors are able to transmit reliable wireless signals over 30 metres i
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OCZ unleashes the 'brainmouse'

1 December 2008
During 2008, OCZ Technology Group has started mass-production of the NIA - Neural Impulse Actuator - a new product aimed at the PC gaming market which allows players to translate the body's electrical
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New tools for fabric calculations

1 December 2008
Lectra is introducing new versions of DesignConcept Auto (V4R1) and DesignConcept TechTex (V4R1) for the automotive industry and manufacturers using industrial fabrics respectively.
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Robots with the gentle touch

1 December 2008
At the forthcoming Forum Robotic 2009 - which takes place in Bremen, Germany, from February 12-13 2009 - BWM (Bremer Werk fur Montagesysteme GmbH) will present new automation solutions for fibre-reinf
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Fighting identity fraud with QTCs

1 December 2008
Peratech, the UK-based owner of the Elektex and Softswitch brands, believes its core QTC (Quantum Tunnelling Composites) technology will prove an invaluable tool in fighting identity fraud.
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Rendezvous in Rome

1 December 2008
Philips, Lumalive, Puma, Textronics and the European Comission are among companies and organisations already lined up for the 5th Smart Fabrics Conference which will take place from 10-12 March 2009 a
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Nanowood composites project funding

1 November 2008
The European Commission is to invest Euro6.5 million in a large scale project dealing with the development of sustainable nanostructured, wood-based composite materials for a wide range of application
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Awa develops nanofibre filter

1 November 2008
Japan's Awa Paper has jointly developed a new filter media with South Korean nanofibre manufacturer Finetex Technology.
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OLED lighting markets will be worth $4.5 billion by 2013

1 November 2008
The OLED lighting market will reach a value of almost $4.5 billion by 2013 and grow to $5.9 billion by 2015, according to a new report.
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Gore's membrane opposition rejected

1 November 2008

The European Patent Office (EPO) has rejected WL Gore's attempts to have the European Patent EP1139805 owned by Nextec of Italy withdrawn.

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Taiwan tryst for textile energy storage

1 November 2008
The Taiwan Textile Research Institute (TTRI) and Delta Electronics - the world's largest provider of switching power supplies headquartered in Tapei, Taiwan - have announced a cooperation in the field
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Ticona to build Vectra LCP unit in Nanjing

1 November 2008
Ticona, the engineering polymers business of Celanese Corporation, has announced plans to build a new Vectra liquid crystal polymer (LCP) production facility co-located at the Celanese integrated chem
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Swan pioneers nanomaterial controls with EPA

1 November 2008
Thomas Swan's nanotubes have received the sector's first manufacturing consent order from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Metafuse partner to add nanotech

1 November 2008
DuPont Engineering Polymers has announced a long-term alliance with California-based PowerMetal Technologies to further develop and commercialise MetaFuse nanocrystalline metal/polymer hybrid technolo
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Plastic Logic opens German plant

1 November 2008
Plastic Logic has officially opened its commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany.
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Decathlon partners with Fibretronic

1 November 2008
Decathlon, the world's second largest sporting goods retailer, operating 400 stores worldwide with sales of US$7.1 billion in 2007, has selected Yorkshire, UK-headquartered Fibretronic as its technolo
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Wrist-worn monitor developed for increasing activity levels

1 November 2008
Cambridge Consultants has developed the wrist-worn 'MiBand' as a completely new type of device which continuously tracks activity levels throughout the day.
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EU Research progress

1 November 2008
More than 20 European textile research projects with a total budget of more than Euro200 million are currently running under the 6th and 7th European Union Research Framework Programmes (FP6-FP7).
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Fabric system combats deep vein thrombosis

1 November 2008
CalfPad has been designed to help reduce the incidence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) that may occur in patients undergoing surgical procedures.
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PermaStatic adds permanent charge

1 November 2008
For the filter media sector, Nanogate AG, headquartered in Gottelborn, Germany, has just introduced PermaStatic based on its new N_charge technology platform.
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IMEC paves the way towards optical sensing foils

1 November 2008
Belgian research organisation IMEC reports that it has made the first functional optical links embedded in a flexible substrate, including optical waveguides, light sources and detectors.
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PTFE mesh for surgery

1 November 2008
WL Gore's new Infinit Mesh is billed as the first 100% monofilament, large-pore knitted surgical mesh constructed entirely of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE).
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Merck and Nano-Terra extend alliance

1 November 2008
Global pharmaceuticals and chemical company Merck has announced an extension of its strategic alliance with nanotechnology development company Nano-Terra.
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Nano-clothing the new robots

1 November 2008
According to statistics from the International Federation of Robotics, the number of robots in private households worldwide will have increased from two million in 2004 to nine million by the end of 2
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New method for nanofibre composites

1 November 2008
A patented process for the manufacture of composite meltblown nonwovens fully integrating nanofibres is being introduced to the market by Irema Filter, based in Pavelsbach, Germany.
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Biodegradable natural fibre composites developed

1 November 2008
The first generation of high performance composite materials made from completely biodegradable natural fibre reinforced plastics has been produced by a UK-based consortium.
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Total team monitoring with Zephyr's BioHarness

1 November 2008
New Zealand's Zephyr Technology has launched the BioHarness Team System which enables coaches and trainers to monitor the physiology of up to 64 of their athletes in the field, in real-time, during tr
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Smart new materials will drive the market for inkjet inks

1 November 2008
The market for functional inkjet inks will reach $5.5 billion by 2016 according to a new report.
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Fabric system to combat deep vein thrombosis

1 November 2008
CalfPad has been designed to help reduce the incidences of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) that may occur in patients requiring surgical procedures.
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Around the world trip for first solar sail

1 October 2008
Dye-Sensitised thin film solar cells have been integrated into the sail of explorer Robert Swan's 2041 boat which is currently sailing around the world raising awareness on climate change.
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Aerogels 2008

1 October 2008
IntertechPira is holding the Aerogels World Summit 2008 from October 15-17 at the Providence Biltmore Hotel, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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Commercial launch of Teijin Nanofront

1 October 2008
Teijin Fibers is to begin the commercial production of a high-strength polyester nanofibre called Nanofront at its Matsuyama plant in Japan.
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Nanoelectronics project aims at reproducible process for printing solar cells

1 October 2008
IMEC, an independent nanoelectronics research institute headquartered in Belgium, has signed an agreement to collaborate on materials and inks for organic solar cells Plextronics, which specialises in
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Permanent charge technology for textiles

1 October 2008
The low-cost storage of electrical charges can be achieved in different media such as glass, textiles and plastics with a new technology called N_charge developed by German company Nanogate AG within
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Gold referenced with the Zetasizer Nano

1 October 2008
The UK's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has used the Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern Instruments as part of the qualification and assessment process
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Systex smart textiles project

1 October 2008
Despite the fact that intelligent textile systems are sponsored on a large scale in Europe, there is still a lack of structured co-ordination and interdisciplinary knowledge transfer.
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