Research*EU Magazine | Number 68 (December 2017/January 2018)

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Series Details Number 68
Publication Date December 2017 - January 2018
ISSN 1831-9947
EC ZZ-AC-17-010-EN-N
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Seeking an edge in OLED technology

Summary:

This month’s special feature tackles this topic of development of OLED devices and their uses in the developing market. A total of eight projects recently or soon-to-be completed have been selected for their ability to shape the future of this promising market.

Besides these, others project outcomes are presented across nine themes of research: health, society, transport, environment, agriculture and forestry, industry, information and communication technology, space and fundamental research.

Contents:

Special feature: Seeking an edge in OLED technology

Digital Economy

  • Restoring sensory feedback to amputees
  • The colour of light — what it tells us about water contamination
  • A new era in brain-inspired computing
  • Innovative wearable device to track indoor and outdoor air quality
  • Introducing a new robotic class with abilities out-performing existing machines or even biological organisms
  • Cutting-edge facial recognition goes mainstream
  • Spintronics advancing next-generation electronics

Health

  • Improved statistical methodology for small population group trials
  • Understanding the role microenvironments play in metastasis could lead to better cancer treatment
  • New brain visualisation of Alzheimer’s, at different ages, holds out hope for faster diagnosis and treatment

Fundamental Research

  • Researchers improved muscular dystrophies by making the muscle slower
  • More accurate computer simulations for bigger molecular systems
  • Rhomboid protease mechanism of action unveiled

Society

  • Resilience in times of crisis
  • Iron Age textiles give up their secrets to reveal patterns in human interaction
  • Honour, culture and behaviour

Transport and Mobility

  • More efficient aircraft engines lower running costs and environmental impact
  • New study offers answers to improve elderly transport mobility
  • Flight tests pave the way to greening of aircraft operations

Climate Change and Environment

  • Even optimistic climate change predictions have periglacial zones at tipping point
  • How artificial nighttime lighting negatively affects ecological communities
  • The concept of ecosystem services applied to the real world

Food and Natural Resources

  • A new vision for agro food waste
  • DNA sequencing gets to the root cause of variety amongst birch trees
  • New-generation sprayers for healthier farming
  • Sensors helping farmers to avoid water and nitrogen over-use

Industrial Technologies

  • Modelling nano-enabled systems via intricate, multi-scale simulations
  • Adapting metal additive manufacturing processes for high performance parts
  • Assessing the risk of nanomaterials
  • Enzyme firm demonstrates scale of ambition

Space

  • Creating a 3D map of the Milky Way
  • Smart structures for actuated nanosatellites
  • Ashes-to-ashes but not quite dust-to-dust, as supernovae death reveals link to stars’ birth
  • New instruments for the European Solar Telescope
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  • https://cordis.europa.eu/article/id/400827-seeking-an-edge-in-oled-technology
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