Flexible Electronics and Display Conference 2009

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

The US Display Consortium recently announced the addition of a business investment summit to their annual conference on flexible electronics and displays. So far much of the interest and activity in nanotechnology has been weighted toward the study of basic nanomaterial properties rather than new applications and even when applications are proposed ...

NanoL&B Patent of the Week - Inkjet Printed Batteries (U.S. Patent 6,780,208)

Monday, April 14th, 2008

In the latest issue of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal Stefan Preisler and Gerd Lange describe the rising popularity of printable electronics manufactured using inkjet printing, roll-to-roll coating, and other printing techniques. Such printable electronics open the door to entirely new product applications and cheap fabrication of flexible electronics ...

Alternative Nanoelectronics Update (Nanosys)

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

In Vol. 3, issue 4 of the Nanotechnology Law & Business journal I reviewed four alternative approaches to future nanoelectronics devices taken by D-Wave (quantum computing), Hewlett-Packard (molecular electronics), Nantero (carbon nanotube switches), and Nanosys (nanowire macroelectronics). Of the four companies Nanosys seems to be in the best position at ...