Kyung-In Synthetic Corporation's Dr Scott Watkins will be presenting on flexible electronics at this year's SMCBA Electronics Design & Manufacture Conference. The annual conference will be held in conjunction with the ElectroneX design and assembly expo from 9-10 September at Melbourne Park Function Centre. [ + ]

RMIT University researchers have created wearable sensor patches that detect harmful UV radiation and dangerous, toxic gases such as hydrogen and nitrogen dioxide. [ + ]

The inaugural Engineers Australia Future Tech Forum, part of the ACI Connect conference being held in Sydney in August, will feature a strong line-up of speakers, covering a range of topics including IoT and M2M. [ + ]

Scientists have developed a new class of organic luminescent materials through the targeted introduction of boron atoms into their molecular structures. [ + ]

Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Sydney have developed a new technology to detect blockages in lung arteries in real time. [ + ]

Scientists have developed a method of fabricating nanoscale electronic scaffolds that can be injected directly into the brain via syringe. [ + ]

IBM researchers have developed a process for growing crystals made from compound semiconductor materials that will allow them to be integrated onto silicon wafers - an important step towards making future computer chips that will allow integrated circuits to continue shrinking in size and cost even as they increase in performance. [ + ]

The global LTE mobile infrastructure revenue will reach US$23.3 billion in 2015 and then start to decline as a result of diminishing rollouts, predicts IHS in its latest IHS Infonetics Mobile Infrastructure Equipment report. [ + ]

element14 is now an official distributor of MATLAB and Simulink Student Suite, a professional grade suite of tools allowing students to model, simulate and analyse projects in software and then program hardware using the same tools commercial engineers and scientists use every day. [ + ]

Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stanford University have used nanocellulose broken down from tree fibres to produce an elastic, foam-like battery material that can withstand shock and stress. [ + ]

Researchers from Université de Montréal, Polytechnique Montréal and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in France have succeeded in preventing two-dimensional layers of black phosphorus from oxidising.

u-blox, a provider of wireless and positioning modules and chips, has opened an office in Osaka, Japan. [ + ]

Stanford University scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies. [ + ]

The material used in a connector design significantly impacts its overall performance. Bob Stanton, technology director at Omnetics Connector Corp, takes a look at how insulator materials affect connectors at work. [ + ]

The Ohio State University has developed a new technology that is claimed to make mobile phone batteries last up to 30% longer on a single charge. [ + ]