New technology could help a phone's battery last perhaps twice as long, and help to conserve energy in cell towers.

Researchers have developed a process for the economical production of piezoelectric materials.

ARVENI's batteryless switches convert mechanical energy into electricity.

Researchers report that they have made the first experimental observation of piezoelectricity and the piezotronic effect in an atomically thin material, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), resulting in a unique electric generator and mechanosensation devices that are optically transparent, extremely light, and very bendable and stretchable.

Structural electronics (SE) is one of the most important emerging technologies in this century.

Energy harvesting is producing electricity where it is needed using ambient power. The term is most commonly applied to small devices such as in the emerging market for Wireless Sensor Networks that the Koreans call Ubiquitous Sensor Networks. However, there is emerging very large business for energy harvesting as structural electronics

The Internet of Things is of great excitement to many of the world's largest consumer electronics companies because they seek the "next big thing", with existing markets in smart phones, tablets and computing saturating.

Adds Experienced Manager to its Rapidly Growing Japan Team. Tokyo, Japan and Cambridge, UK - Oct. 20, 2014 - IDTechEx the leader in market research on emerging technologies today announced the expansion of its Japan office with the hiring of Mr. Yasuo Yamamoto as its head of business development in Japan.

Technical textiles act as antennas that harvest energy from RF fields. This energy is used by RFID chips to drive embedded sensors such as those monitoring temperature or heartbeat.

Engineers are developing a way to send power - safely and wirelessly - to smart chips programmed to perform medical tasks and report back the results.

The world's most powerful thermoelectric generator, which captures exhaust heat and converts it into electricity.

The Wunder Fund opens the door for any accredited investor to create a diversified portfolio of revenue-generating solar assets.

An emerging class of electrically conductive plastics called "radical polymers" may bring low-cost, transparent solar cells, flexible and lightweight batteries, and ultrathin antistatic coatings for consumer electronics and aircraft.

Three research groups have received $1.3 million in combined funding to improve energy management in smartphones.

Proessor Dutta designs hardware and software for smart dust and larger sensors that don't need batteries because they can harvest energy from the world around them. They can run on power from the light in a room, the magnetic field around an electrical wire, or the heat from a shower head, for example.

Evolution in extreme environments has produced life forms with amazing abilities and traits.

Heliatek GmbH, the world's leading company in the production and commercialization of organic solar films, has successfully completed its C-Financing round by raising 18 million EUR.

Space-Time Insight, the leading provider of next-generation situational intelligence solutions, and NEC Corporation have announced the formation of a partnership for the smart energy market.

GMZ Energy has announced the TG16-1.0, a new thermoelectric module capable of producing twice the power of the company's first product, the TG8.