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RESEARCHERS at the UNSW School of Chemistry have found a way to connect electrodes with light instead of wires.

LITHIUM-Sulphur batteries promise to deliver more efficient, low-cost energy stoage for everything from large scale electricity networks to portable devices.

CANBERRA-based EOS Space Systems is establishing a major space tracking network by deploying a fleet of proprietary space tracking sensors.

A UNIVERSITY of Canberra student has taken out the top prize at an Engineers Australia awards night, thanks to his work on a mine safety mesh network for drone rescues.

RESEARCHERS at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linkoping University, have transformed roses into living electronic circuits.

UNIVERSITY of Wollongong physicists have discovered a new method of constructing nanowires for use as semiconductors, which promises enhancements for building advanced electronic and photonic devices.

AUSTRALIAN and Indian scientists and researchers came together to discuss the use of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and nanotechnology to enhance sustainable agriculture and healthcare.

AUSTRALIAN engineers have proven that a quantum version of computer code can be written and manipulated using two quantum bits in a silicon microchip, allowing silicon-based computers to also be quantum computing devices.

A RESEARCHER from RMIT University has been named one of the top 10 innovators aged under 35 in the Asia Pacific, thanks to her work in transforming flexible electronics into transparent stretchable devices.

STRATEGIC Elements has started testing on a Nanocube memory ink prototype, in order to determine its performance in comparison against other commercialised printed memory technologies.

A TIER-1 LED manufacturer will collaborate with BluGlass to investigate the application of remote plasma chemical vapour deposition (RPCVD) for LED applications.

RESEARCHERS at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering have created a new mathematical method to make semiconductor characterisation more efficient, precise and simple.

CSIRO is using light-generating swings to highlight the challenges around energy sustainability.

SCIENTISTS from the CSIRO’s Advanced Energy Storage Team are working on a backpack which harvests energy from walking.

RESEARCHERS in South Korea have developed a power interruption technology based on a Mott metal-insulator transition (Mott MIT) device.

PANORAMA Synergy will be focusing on testing the manufacturing and packaging of its LumiMEMS Reader technology during the current 2015-2016 Financial Year.

SCIENTISTS at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have created a two-dimensional excitonic laser.

AUSTRALIAN Internet of Things electronics company Xped is being acquired by Raya.

IN A continuing trend of resources companies diversifying their businesses into the technology sector, coal development company Fitzroy Resources will take over Australian memory technology developer 4D-S.

MIT researchers have unveiled shape-changing thin-film interfaces.