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January 1, 2023 Audrey

DUBLIN, Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The “The Global Market for Conductive Inks to 2033” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering.

The Global Market for Conductive Inks to 2033 is an in-depth analysis of a key technology for markets including solar photovoltaics and printed electronics.

The current global market for conductive inks is valued at >$2.5 billion annually and will grow to around $5 billion by 2033, driven by growth in printed, flexible, stretchable & wearable electronics markets, and sub-sectors thereof.

Conductive inks are infused with conductive materials which enable printing of electrically conductive surfaces. They are highly important for the fabrication of all forms of stretchable, flexible, and wearable electronic applications due to their role in connecting the various components of the devices.

Profiles for companies, including company analysis, products and target markets. Companies profiled include C3Nano, Cambrios Advanced Materials, Copprint, Electroninks, Liquid X, SoFab Inks, LLC, UES, and Voltera.

Conductive inks facilitate the production of:

Flexible, stretchable and self-healing electrical circuits.
Wearable electrodes.
TCFs in touch screen panels.
In-mold electronics (IME).
3D electronics.
Electronic skin patches.
Printed heaters for textiles, automotive and buildings.
Range of printed sensors (bio, pressure, capacitive, strain).
RFID antennas and smart packaging.
EMI shielding.
Flexible hybrid electronics (FHE).
Solar photovoltaics.

Report contents include:

Analysis of conductive ink types including:
Silver flake.
Silver nanoparticles.
Silver nanowires.
Particle-free conductive ink.
Copper ink.
Gold ink.
Carbon nanomaterial ink including carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Stretchable/thermoformable inks.
Conductive polymer inks.
Liquid metals.
Siloxane.
Novel bio-based inks.
Key markets and opportunities in conductive inks.
Market trends and key challenges.
Analysis of key players in conductive inks.
Comparative analysis of conductive inks.
Roadmaps and current commercial status for conductive inks, by type.
End users market analysis including all applications and revenues.
Pricing for conductive inks, by type.
Global revenues by conductive ink types and end markets. Historical data and forecast to 2033.

Key Topics Covered:

1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1 Printed electronics
1.2 Role of conductive inks
1.3 Markets and applications
1.4 Market drivers
1.5 The evolution of electronics
1.5.1 The wearables revolution
1.5.2 Development of electronic devices with flexible, thin, and large-area form factors
1.5.3 Advanced conductive materials
1.5.4 The evolution of conductive inks
1.6 Global market for conductive inks 2015-2033, revenues
1.6.1 By conductive ink type
1.6.2 By conductive ink market
1.7 Future outlook and market opportunities
1.8 Market challenges

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3 CONDUCTIVE INKS
3.1 Categorization
3.2 Conductive materials
3.3 Composition
3.4 Metal-based conductive inks
3.5 Nanoparticle inks
3.6 Silver inks
3.7 Silver nanowires
3.8 Particle-Free conductive ink
3.9 Copper inks
3.10 Gold (Au) ink
3.11 Carbon-based conductive inks
3.12 Carbon nanotubes
3.13 Graphene
3.14 Stretchable/thermoformable inks
3.15 Conductive polymer inks
3.16 Liquid metals
3.17 Siloxane inks
3.18 Bio-based conductive inks

4 TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVEL (TRL) FOR CONDUCTIVE INKS

5 PRINTING ELECTRONICS
5.1 What are printed electronics?
5.2 Substrates
5.3 Analog printing processes for conductive inks
5.4 Digital printing processes for conductive inks
5.5 Post-printing techniques
5.6 Flexible electronics components
5.7 Stretchable

Know-how produces far more than 100 healthcare microrobots for every moment that can be disintegrated in the body

October 5, 2022 Audrey

Emergence of a game changer in the field of medical microrobots. — Credit rating: DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Know-how)

Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technological innovation (DGIST, President Yang Kook) Professor Hongsoo Choi’s team of the Department of Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering collaborated with Professor Sung-Won Kim’s crew at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic University of Korea, and Professor Bradley J. Nelson’s team at ETH Zurich to build a technological innovation that makes much more than 100 microrobots for each minute that can be disintegrated in the overall body.

Microrobots aiming at minimum invasive specific precision treatment can be manufactured in a variety of means. Amongst them, ultra-fine 3D printing technological innovation known as two-photon polymerization technique, a process that triggers polymerization by intersecting two lasers in synthetic resin, is the most utilised. This technological know-how can develop a framework with nanometer-amount precision. Having said that, a disadvantage exists in that generating just one microrobot is time consuming since voxels, the pixels understood by 3D printing, should be fixed successively. In addition, the magnetic nanoparticles contained in the robotic can block the gentle path in the course of the two-photon polymerization process. This method result may not be uniform when utilizing magnetic nanoparticles with large focus.

To defeat the limits of the present microrobot manufacturing system, DGIST Professor Hongsoo Choi’s research group produced a strategy to create microrobots at a superior velocity of 100 per moment by flowing a mixture of magnetic nanoparticles and gelatin methacrylate, which is biodegradable and can be remedied by light, into the microfluidic chip. This is far more than 10,000 occasions quicker than making use of the present two-photon polymerization method to manufacture microrobots.

Then, the microrobot created with this know-how was cultured with human nasal turbinated stem cells gathered from human nose to induce stem mobile adherence to the surface of the microrobot. By way of this approach, a stem cell carrying microrobot, such as magnetic nanoparticles inside and stem cells hooked up to the exterior surface area, was fabricated. The robot moves as the magnetic nanoparticles inside the robot respond to an external magnetic field and can be moved to a sought after situation.

Selective cell shipping and delivery was tough in the situation of the existing stem mobile therapy. Nonetheless, the stem mobile carrying microrobot can shift to a preferred locale by managing the magnetic area produced from the electromagnetic subject management process in real time. The investigate group done an experiment to take a look at whether or not the stem mobile carrying microrobot could achieve the target point by passing through a maze-formed microchannel, and consequently verified that the robotic could go to the wished-for spot.

In addition, the degradability of the microrobot was evaluated by incubating the stem mobile carrying microrobot with degrading enzyme. Just after 6 several hours of incubation, the microrobot was entirely disintegrated, and the magnetic nanoparticles inside the robotic had been gathered by the magnetic discipline generated from the magnetic discipline control method. Stem cells were proliferated at the area where the microrobot

For Young ones in the Healthcare facility, Online video Games Are Aspect of Restoration

July 28, 2022 Audrey

Shane Rafferty plays movie game titles for a dwelling. He’s neither a developer nor a rated qualified, but his do the job revolves all over gaming all the very same: Rafferty is a gaming technological know-how expert. As the title implies, he uses technology—and video games in particular—to offer social and psychological assistance for hospitalized children and their families.

Although the task description sounds like fantasy, gaming technological innovation experts are a reality at a lot more than 50 hospitals throughout the world. Among the them is the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. Given that August 2021, Rafferty has performed dozens of game titles there, ranging from Mario Kart to Tetris to Tremendous Smash Bros., with hundreds of kids.

Rafferty arrives from a well being treatment background, so he’s no stranger to educating patients, distracting them, and helping them cope with diagnoses, but gaming permits him to hook up with sufferers over typical passions, also.

“It’s a good way to make rapport with them and split down barriers,” Rafferty says.

Past making relationships, he’s also discovered that playing alongside (or versus!) the youngsters allows them forget they’re in the medical center. It gives them a prospect to interact in engage in, same as their friends.

“They’re sitting down, they are playing Mario Kart,” Rafferty suggests, “and they are not contemplating about how they’ve been trapped in the exact same area for the past month. As an alternative they’re thinking, ‘I need to have to get this crimson shell so I can beat this male who thinks he’s warm things.’”

Being able to offer you that reprieve through gaming, which equally Rafferty and the young ones love, is specifically gratifying.

Just Yet another Day in the Lifetime

The title “gaming engineering specialist” can be a bit of a misnomer, as Rafferty’s working day can involve everything from bedside gaming periods to console troubleshooting to consultations with other departments and even donors.

As Rafferty puts it: “I have on a ton of hats.”

Rafferty has 3 key jobs at Lurie. The initial is to retain the hospital’s amusement technology. This contains the consoles in the playroom region on the hospital’s 20 cellular game carts, and any tech loaned out to patients’ person rooms. He troubleshoots controllers, installs updates, and confirms the appropriateness of the apps downloaded on to the hospital’s iPads. He also orders new gear as wanted.

These are jobs that boost patients’ high-quality of everyday living. They are also duties that may well get shifted to the back burner without the need of a dedicated professional.

“Our child everyday living staff is concentrated on interacting with patients’ households, undertaking process supports, and supplying training,” Rafferty says. If a sport isn’t doing work, “they do not have time to say, ‘Alright, is Minion Hurry up to date?’”

Dealing with the load of tech maintenance is just one particular of the rewards of a gaming technological know-how professional. There is also Rafferty’s 2nd process to

Dr. Panos Kosmas to Produce Keynote Lecture on New Healthcare Technological innovation for Stroke Detection

May 31, 2022 Audrey

U.S. Patent Strengthens META’s Intellectual Residence Position in Professional medical Imaging

HALIFAX, NS / ACCESSWIRE / May perhaps 25, 2022 / Meta Supplies Inc. (the “Organization” or “META®”) (NASDAQ:MMAT),(FSE:MMAT) a developer of significant-efficiency practical materials and nanocomposites, today declared that Dr. Panos Kosmas, VP Biomedical Engineering, will give a keynote lecture on Microwave Imaging for Medical Diagnostics on Thursday, Could 26^th, as aspect of the 8th International Meeting on Antennas and Electromagnetic Devices (AES 2022) held in Marrakesh, Morocco. As section of his lecture, Dr. Kosmas will supply an overview of his team’s R&D to producing a transportable, cost efficient and protected radio-wave imaging scanner, which can be utilized in ambulances for detecting strokes, or bedside in the hospital to watch stroke evolution and recovery.

According to the World Stroke Business, stroke remains the next-primary result in of dying and the third-main lead to of loss of life and disability blended in the planet. The believed world-wide cost of stroke is more than U.S. $721 billion affecting far more than 100 million individuals.

Point of treatment diagnostics and distant monitoring crucially rely on details precision and dependability. META has made a metamaterial technological know-how platform to evaluate physiological indicators with exceptional accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity. META’s engineering leverages metamaterials to bend light in non-standard approaches. When a metamaterial movie is put on the skin, the sign can penetrate the tissue, strengthening sensing accuracy. Below normal conditions, a signal is mirrored, and little vitality penetrates the tissue, hindering sensing precision.

“The application of metamaterials in health care imaging has the possible for speedy clinical adoption, offering better image resolution, more rapidly scans and with out working with ionizing radiation. Our technologies prospects to the growth of enhanced diagnostic equipment,” explained George Palikaras, President & CEO. “META has shown and printed the usefulness of metamaterial technological innovation in equally imaging and sensing apps. I am individually energized about how this engineering will make a difference in people’s lives.”

The exploration is the result of a collaboration concerning King’s School London, wherever Dr. Kosmas formerly held a whole-time tutorial situation, and META, the place he is now utilized total-time leading the hard work to commercialize this analysis. Advancement of the portable scanner rewards from META’s patented, “see-through-pores and skin” metamaterial technology, which is a key enabler for detecting stroke a lot more properly. META’s solution has been offered in a series of peer-reviewed papers and has not long ago been granted a U.S. patent (US 11,246,502 B2). The procedure is currently getting created even further in META’s new European R&D and Profits Headquarters in Athens, Greece.

“Well timed differential prognosis of stroke is critical, due to the fact the window for procedure to mitigate lasting problems is quick,” claimed Dr. Kosmas. “With our planned, moveable technique, medication to address an ischemic stroke by dissolving blood clots could be administered even though the affected person is nonetheless on the ambulance, and in the circumstance of a hemorrhagic