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Prime time for printed sensors- the printed electronics industry shows a huge interest in sensors as it seeks to forget the failures from the past. By Dr Guillaume Chansin, Senior Technology Analyst, IDTechEx.

The popular term 'drones' gives a military connotation to the long-awaited, futuristic innovation that is Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). According to IDTechEx, most of today's market value lies in military applications, both for electric and - the big money - non-electric versions. Nonetheless, small UAVs are increasing in sales fastest, primarily due to non-military applications.

An IDTechEX report has recently been released, which forecasts the growing market for EVsin 37 categories of land, water and airborne e-vehicle, and predicts that electric buses will replace five million conventional buses in Asia.There are two types of these buses - one set not requiring plugging in, which will be found outside of East Asia, whilst East Asia will pay host to the other types - PHEVs and PEVs.

IDTechEx's 'Electric Buses 2015-2025' report finds that buses will account for over 20% of the total future hybrid and pure EV value market, meaning that those seeking leadership in the market must take the bus forecasts seriously.

The oil price may stay low for many years due to oversupply. However, this will not affect the sales of road EVs because their sales numbers decoupled from the oil price many years ago thanks to superior performance, subsidies and privileges such as no congestion charge.

Metal oxide display backplanes have already gone commercial. Sharp has invested in establishing a Gen8 IGZO plant at its Kameyama plant in Japan while LG has also selected IGZO backplanes for its large-sized white OLED technology. At the same time, Chinese companies such as BOE are fast playing catch up with both prototype and production capacity announcements. By Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh, Head of Consulting, IDTechEx.

In 2025, over $25bn will be spent on formulations and intermediate materials for wearables, IDTechEx predicts in its report, ‘Wearable Technology Materials 2015-2025’.Companies at this early part of the value chain will participate in a rapidly growing market over the coming decade. These companies are expected to take a larger share of the market as some other parts of the value chain are eliminated.

The 3D printing market surpassed $1bn in revenues during 2012, and growth is expected to continue throughout all target sectors to reach $20bn by 2025. Printer manufacturers are reporting a surge in sales, as awareness of the technology grows.This and much more is discussed and analysed in the IDTechEx report ‘3D Printing 2015-2025: Technologies, Markets, Players’.

2014 has been an eventful year for the graphene industry. The first round of commercial applications has already been announced, and the industry has witnessed intense investment and acquisition activity as further companies have gone public. Despite the high interest, valuations of public graphene companies have declined, returning largely to where they were at the time of their IPOs.

Until 2014, there was only limited interest in thermoelectric energy harvesting and its automotive uses, explains the IDTechEx report ‘Energy Harvesting/ Regeneration for Electric Vehicles Land, Water & Air 2015-2025’. The maximum attainable efficiency, theoretically one half of that for photovoltaics, was in actuality around one tenth of theoretical at 3%. However, 2014 saw a sharp change in attitude.