OPE Journal

In the face of an ageing population, smart technology will play a vital role in improving elder individuals’ quality of life and dignity. Henkel Qhesive Solutions (Düsseldorf, Germany) have demonstrated how innovation will be helping to address...

Researchers from the Digital Cellulose Center in Sweden have developed a paper supercapacitor that can store renewable energy on a large scale. New research shows that the energy storage capacity of the paper battery is as efficient as conventional...

Sensors have a long history and we are used to encountering them every day – for instance in private environments such as thermometers, scales or light barriers – even long before the digital age. Nowadays, sensors are even more sophisticated....

A consortium of Fraunhofer institutes and well-known German industrial companies is developing a split-manufacturing approach for semiconductor production in the project “Distributed Manufacturing for Novel and Trustworthy Electronics T4T.” This...

The functionalisation of flexible surfaces is a challenge for the industry. Conventional methods quickly reach their limits, especially when it comes to the pre-treatment of inert or sensitive materials. There is now a solution for it, with the...

A few weeks ago, LG Display, a world leader in display technologies, has revealed the top five ideas for its second OLEDs Go!, a global design competition launched together with British design magazine, Dezeen

In a recent publication in the scientific journal “Advanced Materials”, a team of physicists and chemists from TU Dresden presents an organic thin-film sensor that describes a completely new way of identifying the wavelength of light and...

In the last years, Beneli (Helsingborg, Sweden) has seen an increasing interest in flexible printed electronics and sensors. The company uses screen printing for all conductive inks which can be tapered to customers’ needs

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) made a technological breakthrough and constructed a perovskite solar cell with the dual benefits of being both highly efficient and highly stable

Free-form devices have given rise to a new degree of manufacture complexity. Consequently, it is necessary to develop new display materials that will enable the next generation of robust and reliable display devices. A contribution from Merck...

Printed e-paper displays from Ynvisible (Vancouver, Canada) are cost-effective, ultra-low-power, thin & flexible, and highly customisable. Dynamic information where you need it, when you need it, at a price you can afford

Glass facades characterise modern architecture. While solar radiation serves to support heating in winter, the building interior heats up in summer and requires active cooling. Smart windows can regulate the solar radiation according to the weather...

The units Printed, Bio- & Organic Electronics at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden (formerly Acreo) have been active in the fields of organic and printed electronics for more than two decades. The printing lab, which is located at the Printed...

Luisa Prista, senior expert on innovation, women in tech & entrepreneurship and formerly a board member of EU associations, imagines printed electronics as a profitable, growing, innovative industry BECAUSE it has integrated more diversity,...

ZOEK (Center for Organic Electronics) gGmbH based in Cologne, Germany, reports on their latest development: flexible and printed haptic-feedback devices based on piezoelectric polymers for integration in MAGOS gloves

At LOPEC 2022, the OE-A hosted a “Women in PE” panel on 24 March, in which female leaders not only shared insights into obstacles and challenges on the path towards more diversity, but also optimistic visions for the future – a future that...

Smart clothing is more than the functionality and technology it brings. It also delivers the full experience of clothing: comfort, safety and intimacy. As an answer to the current societal needs, Holst Centre has developed a platform of thin,...