An international study on glass could lead to the development of shatterproof mobile phone screens — a breakthrough that is sure to result in a collective sigh of relief from clumsy people the world over. [ + ]

STMicroelectronics has announced its acquisition of Atollic, a specialist in software development tools and the developer of TrueSTUDIO. [ + ]

With the help of a $3.45 million CRC-P grant, Australian researchers are partnering with industry to commercialise batteries based on graphene oxide (GO). [ + ]

The ARC Research Hub for Graphene Enabled Industry Transformation has been opened at the University of Adelaide, in a move that is expected to deliver major economic and scientific benefits to both the state and the nation. [ + ]

Indian researchers have found a way to increase the supercapacitance of vertical graphene nanosheets (VGNs) — 3D networks of carbon nanomaterial that grow in rows of vertical sheets. [ + ]

NHP Electrical Engineering Products has gained sole distributorship of the Delta electric vehicle charger range in Australia. [ + ]

Fujitsu Laboratories claims to have created the world's smallest sensor — a device that supports low-power wide-area (LPWA) technology and will apparently never need replacement batteries. [ + ]

German physicists have drastically increased the yield of gallium oxide — a class of semiconducting oxide — with a catalytic effect observed for the first time during crystal growth. [ + ]

Wireless electronic and electrical products consuming microwatts, milliwatts and more are beginning to operate without batteries or even capacitors to store energy, according to a new report from IDTechEx. [ + ]

Seeking to satisfy the growing demand for light, powerful and long-lasting batteries, Swiss researchers have developed an initial prototype of a solid sodium battery with the potential to store extra energy. [ + ]

RS Components, the trading brand of Electrocomponents, has appointed Chris Poullaos as its country manager for Australia and New Zealand. [ + ]

SEMICON Southeast Asia (SEMICON SEA), a conference connecting people, products, technologies and solutions across the electronics manufacturing supply chain, will be held in Kuala Lumpur next year. [ + ]

Korean researchers have developed ultraflexible organic flash memory that is bendable down to a radius of 300 μm. [ + ]

Recognising the growing engineering talent for the Internet of Things (IoT), semiconductor supplier Renesas held its first Gadget Renesas (GR) Embedded Design Contest in Southeast Asia this year. [ + ]

Computing software provider MathWorks has introduced a free 5G library aimed at supporting wireless design exploration in advance of the release of the initial 3GPP 5G standard specification in March 2018. [ + ]