Researchers have made a crucial step towards nuclear spintronic technologies. They have gotten nuclear spins to line themselves up in a consistent, controllable way, and they have done it using a high-performance material that is convenient and inexpensive. [ + ]

A new technique allows researchers to visualise the activity of individual ions inside battery-like devices, known as supercapacitors. The method could be used to optimise and improve the devices for real-world applications, including electric cars, where they can be used alongside batteries to enhance a vehicle's performance. [ + ]

Adding lithium nitrate and lithium polysulfide to the electrolytes of lithium metal batteries could keep them from catching fire. [ + ]

Dyesol has joined Solliance, a solar energy consortium situated in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, as an Industrial Partner. [ + ]

M2M One has announced a partnership with Taiwanese hardware manufacturer ATrack Technology — one of the first companies to be part of M2M One's new partnership program. [ + ]

Researchers have created stretchable, transparent conductors that could be used in a wide variety of applications, such as flexible electronics, stretchable displays or wearable sensors. [ + ]

Researchers have discovered the structure and transport properties of the 'intermediate state' in lithium-ion batteries — key to understanding the mechanisms of charge and discharge in rechargeable batteries. [ + ]

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. [ + ]