Scientists have proposed a method for the fabrication of transparent, electrically conductive, stretchable tough hydrogels modified by single-walled carbon nanotubes. [ + ]

Flakes of phosphorene, a 2D form of phosphorus only a few atoms thick, are being used to boost the energy capacity of dye-sensitised solar cells. [ + ]

Semiconductor company STMicroelectronics has reported its US GAAP financial results for the second quarter ended 30 June. [ + ]

SEMICON Taiwan will be held from 5–7 September, featuring over 1900 booths, 650 exhibitors and more than 45,000 attendees from the global electronics manufacturing supply chain. [ + ]

A new type of nanowire-based nanostructure enables light to perform logic functions, allowing simple addition and subtraction operations. [ + ]

Electronic components distributor Mouser Electronics has added more than 25 new suppliers to its already vast line card of over 700 suppliers. [ + ]

Worldwide sales of new semiconductor manufacturing equipment are projected to increase 10.8% to $62.7 billion in 2018. [ + ]

Pure Battery Technologies is commercialising a process to extract nickel and cobalt from low-grade ores more cheaply and effectively than current methods. [ + ]

Unlike ordinary batteries, which take the same amount of time to charge no matter how many you have, quantum batteries should charge faster the more you have of them. [ + ]

The Macquarie and Analog Devices Teaching and Research Laboratory will bring industrial experience into Macquarie University in order to better prepare the next generation of engineers. [ + ]

A promising new type of graphene supercapacitor could be used in the next generation of wearable health sensors. [ + ]

The world's longest surviving first-generation computer has found a new home at Melbourne's Scienceworks museum. [ + ]

IT experts have devised a post-quantum secure privacy-preserving algorithm — so powerful it can thwart attacks from supercomputers of the future. [ + ]

The thin and flexible sensor can move with the airflow made by even the softest noises and addresses issues with accelerometers, microphones and similar sensors. [ + ]

UNSW researchers have tuned the control frequency of a qubit by engineering its atomic configuration — a new milestone in their approach to creating a quantum computer chip in silicon. [ + ]