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Smart cities are now much more ambitious. That means new materials are their biggest enabler, with information and computer technology dropping to an important support role.

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Current wind turbine blades are primarily made with composite materials that are difficult to recycle and created with a process that is both costly and time intensive.

In 2020 smart cities have been pivoting reinvented hardware and associated systems.

Thermal management is becoming a critical technology challenge for modern electronics with decreasing device size and increasing power density.

While the basic smart city ideas are mainly updates, the materials and devices enabling them are certainly new and they do add remarkable new functions.

This IDTechEx premium article focuses on smart transparent material and green concrete in cities.

The focus of smart cities has changed. In 2020, smart cities have been pivoting reinvented hardware and associated systems.

Supercapacitors (ultracapacitors) are the only capacitors using an electrochemical double layer (EDL) to give one thousand times more storage for a given weight or volume.