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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zilliz, the company behind the leading open-source vector database Milvus, today announced the open-source release of its Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model, an industry-first AI model designed to dramatically reduce token usage and improve answer quality in production RAG-powered AI applications.

This highlighting model introduces sentence-level relevance filtering, enabling AI developers to remove low-signal context before sending prompts to large language models. This approach directly addresses rising inference costs and accuracy issues caused by oversized context windows in enterprise RAG and RAG-powered AI deployments.

“As RAG systems move into production, teams are running into very real cost and quality limits,” said James Luan, VP of Engineering at Zilliz. “This model gives developers a practical way to reduce prompt size and improve answer accuracy without reworking their existing pipelines.”

Key Innovations and Technical Breakthroughs

• Bilingual relevance by design: Optimized for both English and Chinese, the model addresses cross-lingual relevance challenges common in global RAG deployments. It is built on the MiniCPM-2B architecture, enabling low-latency, production-ready performance.
• Sentence-level context filtering: Rather than scoring entire document chunks, the model evaluates relevance at the sentence level and retains only content that directly supports a user query before sending it to the LLM.
• Lower token usage, higher answer quality: Zilliz reports that sentence-level filtering significantly compresses prompt size while improving downstream response quality, helping teams reduce inference costs and improve generation speed in production environments.

Availability

The Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model is available today as an open-source release. To learn more about the training methodology and performance benchmarks, visit the Zilliz Technical Blog.

Download: : zilliz/semantic-highlight-bilingual-v1

About Zilliz

Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database. Zilliz Cloud brings that performance to production with a fully managed, cloud-native platform built for scalable, low-latency vector search and hybrid retrieval. It supports billion-scale workloads with sub-10ms latency, auto-scaling, and optimized indexes for GenAI use cases like semantic search and RAG.

Zilliz is built to make AI not just possible—but practical. With a focus on performance and cost-efficiency, it helps engineering teams move from prototype to production without overprovisioning or complex infrastructure. Over 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on Zilliz to build intelligent applications at scale.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Zilliz is backed by leading investors, including Aramco’s Prosperity 7 Ventures, Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners, and others. Learn more at  Zilliz.com.

 

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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zilliz, the company behind the leading open-source vector database Milvus, today announced the open-source release of its Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model, an industry-first AI model designed to dramatically reduce token usage and improve answer quality in production RAG-powered AI applications.

This highlighting model introduces sentence-level relevance filtering, enabling AI developers to remove low-signal context before sending prompts to large language models. This approach directly addresses rising inference costs and accuracy issues caused by oversized context windows in enterprise RAG and RAG-powered AI deployments.

“As RAG systems move into production, teams are running into very real cost and quality limits,” said James Luan, VP of Engineering at Zilliz. “This model gives developers a practical way to reduce prompt size and improve answer accuracy without reworking their existing pipelines.”

Key Innovations and Technical Breakthroughs

• Bilingual relevance by design: Optimized for both English and Chinese, the model addresses cross-lingual relevance challenges common in global RAG deployments. It is built on the MiniCPM-2B architecture, enabling low-latency, production-ready performance.
• Sentence-level context filtering: Rather than scoring entire document chunks, the model evaluates relevance at the sentence level and retains only content that directly supports a user query before sending it to the LLM.
• Lower token usage, higher answer quality: Zilliz reports that sentence-level filtering significantly compresses prompt size while improving downstream response quality, helping teams reduce inference costs and improve generation speed in production environments.

Availability

The Bilingual Semantic Highlighting Model is available today as an open-source release. To learn more about the training methodology and performance benchmarks, visit the Zilliz Technical Blog.

Download: : zilliz/semantic-highlight-bilingual-v1

About Zilliz

Zilliz is the company behind Milvus, the world’s most widely adopted open-source vector database. Zilliz Cloud brings that performance to production with a fully managed, cloud-native platform built for scalable, low-latency vector search and hybrid retrieval. It supports billion-scale workloads with sub-10ms latency, auto-scaling, and optimized indexes for GenAI use cases like semantic search and RAG.

Zilliz is built to make AI not just possible—but practical. With a focus on performance and cost-efficiency, it helps engineering teams move from prototype to production without overprovisioning or complex infrastructure. Over 10,000 organizations worldwide rely on Zilliz to build intelligent applications at scale.

Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Zilliz is backed by leading investors, including Aramco’s Prosperity 7 Ventures, Temasek’s Pavilion Capital, Hillhouse Capital, 5Y Capital, Yunqi Partners, Trustbridge Partners, and others. Learn more at  Zilliz.com.

 

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New Additions Join to Advance Reveal’s Operator-Focused Capabilities at the Tactical Edge

BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Reveal Technology, a veteran-founded defense technology company, announced today the addition of four new executives: Niko Hughes, Chief Growth Officer; Padden Guy Murphy, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer; Chris Booth, Director of Special Missions; and Cale Teeter, Senior Vice President, Federal & Public Safety.

“Coming off our Series B and passing a key revenue inflection point, this is the moment to build the leadership required to scale,” said Garrett Smith, CEO of Reveal Technology. “The nature of war hasn’t changed but the technology shaping the battlefield has. We’re investing now because the next decade of conflict will be won by speed, integration, and clarity at the tactical edge. By bringing on leaders like Padden, Niko, Cale, and Chris, we’re building Reveal with the ambition and operational depth needed to grow into a next-generation defense leader.”

• Niko Hughes, Chief Growth Officer (CGO), will drive revenue growth and scale Reveal’s go-to-market strategy across defense, intelligence, and federal markets. Hughes served as President of Kägwerks, leading the bootstrapped startup through acquisition by Codan Limited in December 2024 and growing revenue 44% post-acquisition. Under his leadership, Kägwerks secured multiple DoW Programs of Record, fielding over 40,000 units across the U.S. Army. A U.S. Army EOD Officer with TS/SCI clearance and honor graduate of Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Hughes previously founded BetterGrowth, bootstrapping to $2.5 million in annual revenue before a successful exit.
• Padden Guy Murphy, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer (CMO), will lead marketing, communications, and brand strategy as Reveal scales across defense and allied markets. Murphy co-founded Foundry Ten, advising companies including California Forever, Google, Webflow, and Metropolis. He previously held senior marketing and business development roles at WeWork, Lyft, REEF, Adobe, and Getaround. Murphy earned degrees in International Relations and Chinese from Tufts and Oxford, founded Montana Festival, and serves on boards of The Montana Ambassadors and Headwaters Community Housing Trust.
• Christopher “Chris” Booth, Director of Special Missions, will lead outreach to the U.S. Intelligence Community and partner with foreign security and intelligence services. With nearly thirty years as a national security professional, Army officer, and attorney working with partners across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East – particularly in capacity building – he is uniquely suited for this role. Chris also co-directs the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Maritime Program. He is a distinguished graduate of Marine Corps Command & Staff College, Barrow Fellow for Strategic Competition, and Gray Scholar on Social & Political Conflict. He earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School and has published in venues including: The Atlantic Council, War on the Rocks, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, West Point’s Modern War Institute, and The National Interest.
• Cale Teeter, Senior Vice President, Federal & Public Safety, will lead strategic growth and operational alignment across Reveal’s federal, public safety, and intelligence community portfolios. A retired SOF officer, Teeter brings decades of operational and executive leadership experience supporting U.S. government missions, with expertise in aligning people, process, and technology to deliver mission-critical capabilities in complex, high-risk environments. Prior to Reveal, Teeter led successful growth initiatives ahead of acquisition at goTenna, Kägwerks, EF Johnson, and SecureCo, driving scalable revenue growth and long-term customer trust. Teeter holds a B.S. and M.S. in Biology and an M.S. in BioDefense, with advanced education from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College, University of Utah, and Texas Tech University.

The leadership expansion follows Reveal’s $30 million Series B funding round led by Ballistic Ventures and the company’s recent acquisition of Anomaly Six, a multi-domain digital intelligence company. Reveal has increased revenue tenfold year over year, with products actively deployed across the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, Marine Corps, law enforcement agencies, and international forces.

About Reveal Technology, Inc.
Reveal Technology is a veteran-founded defense technology company building the ecosystem for autonomy at the tactical edge, with a mission to serve as the digital arms room for the modern warrior. Founded by former U.S. Marine Corps officers and Stanford technologists, Reveal delivers offline intelligence platforms that work when networks are degraded, enabling real-time decision-making in contested environments. The company’s flagship products, Farsight (geospatial intelligence) and Identifi (edge and mobile biometrics), are deployed with the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, Marine Corps, and international forces. Based in Bozeman, Montana, with a team that is 50% military reservists, guardsmen and veterans, Reveal Technology is dedicated to providing warfighters with mission-critical tools that work offline, under fire, and in real time.

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New Additions Join to Advance Reveal’s Operator-Focused Capabilities at the Tactical Edge

BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Reveal Technology, a veteran-founded defense technology company, announced today the addition of four new executives: Niko Hughes, Chief Growth Officer; Padden Guy Murphy, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer; Chris Booth, Director of Special Missions; and Cale Teeter, Senior Vice President, Federal & Public Safety.

“Coming off our Series B and passing a key revenue inflection point, this is the moment to build the leadership required to scale,” said Garrett Smith, CEO of Reveal Technology. “The nature of war hasn’t changed but the technology shaping the battlefield has. We’re investing now because the next decade of conflict will be won by speed, integration, and clarity at the tactical edge. By bringing on leaders like Padden, Niko, Cale, and Chris, we’re building Reveal with the ambition and operational depth needed to grow into a next-generation defense leader.”

• Niko Hughes, Chief Growth Officer (CGO), will drive revenue growth and scale Reveal’s go-to-market strategy across defense, intelligence, and federal markets. Hughes served as President of Kägwerks, leading the bootstrapped startup through acquisition by Codan Limited in December 2024 and growing revenue 44% post-acquisition. Under his leadership, Kägwerks secured multiple DoW Programs of Record, fielding over 40,000 units across the U.S. Army. A U.S. Army EOD Officer with TS/SCI clearance and honor graduate of Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Hughes previously founded BetterGrowth, bootstrapping to $2.5 million in annual revenue before a successful exit.
• Padden Guy Murphy, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer (CMO), will lead marketing, communications, and brand strategy as Reveal scales across defense and allied markets. Murphy co-founded Foundry Ten, advising companies including California Forever, Google, Webflow, and Metropolis. He previously held senior marketing and business development roles at WeWork, Lyft, REEF, Adobe, and Getaround. Murphy earned degrees in International Relations and Chinese from Tufts and Oxford, founded Montana Festival, and serves on boards of The Montana Ambassadors and Headwaters Community Housing Trust.
• Christopher “Chris” Booth, Director of Special Missions, will lead outreach to the U.S. Intelligence Community and partner with foreign security and intelligence services. With nearly thirty years as a national security professional, Army officer, and attorney working with partners across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East – particularly in capacity building – he is uniquely suited for this role. Chris also co-directs the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Maritime Program. He is a distinguished graduate of Marine Corps Command & Staff College, Barrow Fellow for Strategic Competition, and Gray Scholar on Social & Political Conflict. He earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School and has published in venues including: The Atlantic Council, War on the Rocks, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, West Point’s Modern War Institute, and The National Interest.
• Cale Teeter, Senior Vice President, Federal & Public Safety, will lead strategic growth and operational alignment across Reveal’s federal, public safety, and intelligence community portfolios. A retired SOF officer, Teeter brings decades of operational and executive leadership experience supporting U.S. government missions, with expertise in aligning people, process, and technology to deliver mission-critical capabilities in complex, high-risk environments. Prior to Reveal, Teeter led successful growth initiatives ahead of acquisition at goTenna, Kägwerks, EF Johnson, and SecureCo, driving scalable revenue growth and long-term customer trust. Teeter holds a B.S. and M.S. in Biology and an M.S. in BioDefense, with advanced education from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College, University of Utah, and Texas Tech University.

The leadership expansion follows Reveal’s $30 million Series B funding round led by Ballistic Ventures and the company’s recent acquisition of Anomaly Six, a multi-domain digital intelligence company. Reveal has increased revenue tenfold year over year, with products actively deployed across the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, Marine Corps, law enforcement agencies, and international forces.

About Reveal Technology, Inc.
Reveal Technology is a veteran-founded defense technology company building the ecosystem for autonomy at the tactical edge, with a mission to serve as the digital arms room for the modern warrior. Founded by former U.S. Marine Corps officers and Stanford technologists, Reveal delivers offline intelligence platforms that work when networks are degraded, enabling real-time decision-making in contested environments. The company’s flagship products, Farsight (geospatial intelligence) and Identifi (edge and mobile biometrics), are deployed with the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, Marine Corps, and international forces. Based in Bozeman, Montana, with a team that is 50% military reservists, guardsmen and veterans, Reveal Technology is dedicated to providing warfighters with mission-critical tools that work offline, under fire, and in real time.

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New Additions Join to Advance Reveal’s Operator-Focused Capabilities at the Tactical Edge

BOZEMAN, Mont., Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Reveal Technology, a veteran-founded defense technology company, announced today the addition of four new executives: Niko Hughes, Chief Growth Officer; Padden Guy Murphy, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer; Chris Booth, Director of Special Missions; and Cale Teeter, Senior Vice President, Federal & Public Safety.

“Coming off our Series B and passing a key revenue inflection point, this is the moment to build the leadership required to scale,” said Garrett Smith, CEO of Reveal Technology. “The nature of war hasn’t changed but the technology shaping the battlefield has. We’re investing now because the next decade of conflict will be won by speed, integration, and clarity at the tactical edge. By bringing on leaders like Padden, Niko, Cale, and Chris, we’re building Reveal with the ambition and operational depth needed to grow into a next-generation defense leader.”

• Niko Hughes, Chief Growth Officer (CGO), will drive revenue growth and scale Reveal’s go-to-market strategy across defense, intelligence, and federal markets. Hughes served as President of Kägwerks, leading the bootstrapped startup through acquisition by Codan Limited in December 2024 and growing revenue 44% post-acquisition. Under his leadership, Kägwerks secured multiple DoW Programs of Record, fielding over 40,000 units across the U.S. Army. A U.S. Army EOD Officer with TS/SCI clearance and honor graduate of Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Hughes previously founded BetterGrowth, bootstrapping to $2.5 million in annual revenue before a successful exit.
• Padden Guy Murphy, Chief Marketing & Communications Officer (CMO), will lead marketing, communications, and brand strategy as Reveal scales across defense and allied markets. Murphy co-founded Foundry Ten, advising companies including California Forever, Google, Webflow, and Metropolis. He previously held senior marketing and business development roles at WeWork, Lyft, REEF, Adobe, and Getaround. Murphy earned degrees in International Relations and Chinese from Tufts and Oxford, founded Montana Festival, and serves on boards of The Montana Ambassadors and Headwaters Community Housing Trust.
• Christopher “Chris” Booth, Director of Special Missions, will lead outreach to the U.S. Intelligence Community and partner with foreign security and intelligence services. With nearly thirty years as a national security professional, Army officer, and attorney working with partners across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East – particularly in capacity building – he is uniquely suited for this role. Chris also co-directs the Irregular Warfare Initiative’s Maritime Program. He is a distinguished graduate of Marine Corps Command & Staff College, Barrow Fellow for Strategic Competition, and Gray Scholar on Social & Political Conflict. He earned his J.D. from Vanderbilt Law School and has published in venues including: The Atlantic Council, War on the Rocks, U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, West Point’s Modern War Institute, and The National Interest.
• Cale Teeter, Senior Vice President, Federal & Public Safety, will lead strategic growth and operational alignment across Reveal’s federal, public safety, and intelligence community portfolios. A retired SOF officer, Teeter brings decades of operational and executive leadership experience supporting U.S. government missions, with expertise in aligning people, process, and technology to deliver mission-critical capabilities in complex, high-risk environments. Prior to Reveal, Teeter led successful growth initiatives ahead of acquisition at goTenna, Kägwerks, EF Johnson, and SecureCo, driving scalable revenue growth and long-term customer trust. Teeter holds a B.S. and M.S. in Biology and an M.S. in BioDefense, with advanced education from the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College, University of Utah, and Texas Tech University.

The leadership expansion follows Reveal’s $30 million Series B funding round led by Ballistic Ventures and the company’s recent acquisition of Anomaly Six, a multi-domain digital intelligence company. Reveal has increased revenue tenfold year over year, with products actively deployed across the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, Marine Corps, law enforcement agencies, and international forces.

About Reveal Technology, Inc.
Reveal Technology is a veteran-founded defense technology company building the ecosystem for autonomy at the tactical edge, with a mission to serve as the digital arms room for the modern warrior. Founded by former U.S. Marine Corps officers and Stanford technologists, Reveal delivers offline intelligence platforms that work when networks are degraded, enabling real-time decision-making in contested environments. The company’s flagship products, Farsight (geospatial intelligence) and Identifi (edge and mobile biometrics), are deployed with the U.S. Army, Special Operations Command, Marine Corps, and international forces. Based in Bozeman, Montana, with a team that is 50% military reservists, guardsmen and veterans, Reveal Technology is dedicated to providing warfighters with mission-critical tools that work offline, under fire, and in real time.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CTIA, the wireless industry association, today announced it will support the U.S. government’s Trump Accounts program by making its own contributions for eligible children of its employees.

“We are proud to be at the vanguard of participation in the Trump Account program,” said Ajit Pai, CTIA President and CEO. “Programs like these are critical to helping young Americans develop financial literacy and build long-term economic opportunity – things all of us can and should work together to support. CTIA shares the Administration’s commitment to families and workforce development, and we are deeply invested in ensuring that America remains the best place in the world to live, work, and innovate.”

530A accounts are tax-deferred savings vehicles for children under 18, seeded with a $1,000 federal contribution for children born between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2028.

CTIA has been named a Top Workplace by the Washington Post for the last seven consecutive years. The selection is based on employee feedback on areas such pay, benefits, leadership, engagement, and more.

For additional information and program updates, visit TrumpAccounts.gov.

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A total of 16 scholarship recipients – eight from November and eight from December – will each receive a $2,500 scholarship to attend the massage school of their choice.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Massage Envy, the #1 provider of massage across its franchise network, and national leader in skin care, announced the winners of its November and December 2025 Massage Envy National Scholarship Sweepstakes for Massage Therapists.

Since launching this initiative in 2022, Massage Envy Franchising has awarded 320 scholarships totaling $800,000 to support the next generation of massage therapists.

The November 2025 sweepstakes winners are:

• Hannah P.
• Marlene G.
• Dorzell D.
• Vanessa S.
• Kelsey C.
• Cary K.
• Camille L.
• Jesse C.

The December 2025 sweepstakes winners are:

• Ashley S.
• LaCree T.
• Wilemina L.
• Johnnica L.
• Natalia V.
• Vanessa A.
• Kaleah C.
• Roselle D.

“In 2025, we continued our commitment to supporting the next generation of leaders in our industry, and we’re incredibly proud of the role these scholarships play in helping aspiring massage professionals take the next step in their careers,” said Todd Schrader, CEO of Massage Envy Franchising. “It’s an honor to support their growth, and we look forward to championing them as they shape the future of our industry.”

To be eligible to enter for a chance to win a scholarship, entrants must be of legal age in their state. Entrants only need to enter once. To learn more about the scholarship program or to enter, please go to www.massageenvy.com/scholarship. Scholarship recipients do not have to work at a Massage Envy franchised location upon graduation from massage school.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of the 50 U.S./D.C. residents, 18+ (residents of AL & NE who must be 19+ or residents of MS who must be 21+) and have not been confirmed as a winner in a Massage Envy Sweepstakes in the last twenty-four months as of date of entry. See Official Rules at massageenvy.com/scholarship for entry periods, odds, prize description, limitations, and complete details. Sweepstakes begins January 2, 2026, and ends December 31, 2026. Sponsor: Massage Envy Franchising, LLC, 14350 N 87th St Ste 200, Scottsdale, AZ 85260.

About Massage Envy
Massage Envy, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is a national franchisor and does not independently own or operate any of the Massage Envy franchised locations nationwide. The Massage Envy franchise network, through its franchise locations, is a leading provider of premium skin care offerings and massage services. The Massage Envy brand was founded in 2002 and began offering skin care services in 2008. The brand has franchise locations in 49 states that have together delivered more than 235 million services across its skin care and body care offerings. 

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INCHEON, South Korea, Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Organic field-effect transistors are promising for highly sensitive portable gas sensors, but their practical application is limited by the atmospheric instability of organic semiconductors. This instability eventually leads to reduced device performance, contributing to growing electronic waste. To address this issue, researchers, through careful solvent engineering, have now developed a new class of eco-friendly, high-performance, and durable organic gas sensors using biodegradable polymers.

Air pollutants like nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), primarily produced during fossil fuel combustion, pose a serious concern for human health, contributing to respiratory diseases like pulmonary edema, bronchitis, and asthma. Effective air-quality monitoring therefore requires portable gas sensors that offer high sensitivity, selectivity, and long-term stability. Among existing technologies, organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are promising for highly sensitive portable sensors with their lightweight, flexible, and simple-to-fabricate structure.

However, a critical challenge for their practical application is the limited lifetime of organic semiconductors, which are vulnerable to degradation caused by moisture and oxygen. This leads to a gradual decline in device performance and ultimately contributes to growing electronic waste and environmental pollution.

Addressing this issue, a research team led by Professor Yeong-Don Park from the Department of Energy and Chemical Engineering at Incheon National University in South Korea has developed novel eco-friendly OFET gas sensors. These sensors utilize blended polymer films combining poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), a widely used organic semiconductor, and poly(butylene succinate) (PBS). “Using PBS, a well-known biodegradable polymer, and effective solvent engineering, we demonstrated that high sustainability and device performance can be achieved simultaneously,” says Prof. Park. Their study was made available online on September 24, 2025, and published in Volume 523 of the Chemical Engineering Journal on November 01, 2025.

To fabricate the sensors, the researchers prepared blended solutions of P3HT and PBS using either chloroform (CF) or a mixture of chloroform and dichlorobenzene (CF:DCB) as solvents. These blended solutions were deposited onto silicon substrates and fitted with gold electrodes to form OFET-based gas sensors. This yielded two distinct sensor types.

The choice of solvent played a crucial role in determining the internal structure of the active polymer layer and, consequently, the device performance. Specifically, CF-processed films exhibited a horizontal phase separation of P3HT and PBS, producing an uneven surface structure. In contrast, the CF:DCB-processed films demonstrated a uniform surface structure across all compositions owing to vertical phase separation. Although the electrical performance of both sensors decreased with increasing PBS content, the sensor with the CF-processed film stopped functioning when PBS content exceeded 50%. In contrast, the CF:DCB-processed sensor retained a stable performance even with up to 90% PBS content.

Beyond electrical stability, the researchers also evaluated the devices’ gas-sensing capabilities. These tests revealed that the sensitivity of both devices to nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), and carbon dioxide (CO₂) increased with higher PBS content. Notably, the CF-processed films demonstrated higher sensitivity, while the CF:DCB-processed films displayed excellent, stable sensitivity even with 90% PBS content. The devices also showed significantly higher sensitivity for NO₂ over SO₂ and CO₂. Increasing PBS content enhanced flexibility of the films and both devices were found to be biodegradable in seawater.

“Our eco-friendly and resource-efficient sensors open up new possibilities for environmentally sustainable gas sensing technologies suitable for large-scale or disposable applications,” concludes Prof. Park. “In the long term, biodegradable organic sensors could significantly reduce electronic waste, especially for sensors deployed in natural or marine environments.“

Reference

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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Minesto, leading ocean energy developer, has been awarded 24,000 EUR grant funding from the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) through the Global Innovation Accelerator (GIA) programme, aiming to accelerate the company’s market development in Taiwan. As part of the programme, Minesto officially took part in the high-level Nordic-Taiwan Sustainable Energy Forum, held in Taipei in December. 

With the 24,000 EUR grant funded by SEA through the GIA programme, Minesto targets to secure investments and partnerships for build out of tidal energy power plants at identified sites near Keelung and at Green Island,      

Most recently, Minesto successfully concluded its participation at the 2025 Nordic-Taiwan Sustainable Energy Forum, held in Taipei in December 2025, where the company presented its ocean-energy technology and engaged with key stakeholders across Taiwan’s energy industry. The forum, co-organised by Business Sweden Taiwan and the Energy Administration of Taiwan, brought together policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders to discuss energy resilience and the importance of international collaboration.

“Participating in the Nordic-Taiwan Sustainable Energy Forum and advancing our work under the Global Innovation Accelerator programme builds momentum for Minesto in Taiwan,” says Dr. YungLung Chen, Project Developer, Minesto Taiwan Ltd. “The GIA programme provides a structured pathway for us to broaden our partner base and secure project finance for the first Dragon Farms in Taiwanese waters.”

Taiwan remains a strategically important market for Minesto, with the collaboration with National Taiwan Ocean University and an industrial partnership with Taiwan Cement Green Energy in place, supporting joint efforts to advance the commercialisation of ocean-energy solutions tailored to Taiwan’s future baseload renewable power needs.

National assessments continue to highlight strong tidal streams and robust ocean-current flows in Taiwan’s surrounding waters, underscoring the long-term potential for predictable, renewable electricity generation. These conditions align closely with Minesto’s tidal technology and Taiwan’s ambition to build a resilient, low-carbon energy system.

About the Nordic-Taiwan Sustainable Energy Forum:

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Cecilia Sernhage, Chief Communications Officer
+46 735 23 71 58
ir@minesto.com 

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GOTHENBURG, Sweden, Jan. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Minesto, leading ocean energy developer, has been awarded 24,000 EUR grant funding from the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) through the Global Innovation Accelerator (GIA) programme, aiming to accelerate the company’s market development in Taiwan. As part of the programme, Minesto officially took part in the high-level Nordic-Taiwan Sustainable Energy Forum, held in Taipei in December. 

With the 24,000 EUR grant funded by SEA through the GIA programme, Minesto targets to secure investments and partnerships for build out of tidal energy power plants at identified sites near Keelung and at Green Island,      

Most recently, Minesto successfully concluded its participation at the 2025 Nordic-Taiwan Sustainable Energy Forum, held in Taipei in December 2025, where the company presented its ocean-energy technology and engaged with key stakeholders across Taiwan’s energy industry. The forum, co-organised by Business Sweden Taiwan and the Energy Administration of Taiwan, brought together policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders to discuss energy resilience and the importance of international collaboration.

“Participating in the Nordic-Taiwan Sustainable Energy Forum and advancing our work under the Global Innovation Accelerator programme builds momentum for Minesto in Taiwan,” says Dr. YungLung Chen, Project Developer, Minesto Taiwan Ltd. “The GIA programme provides a structured pathway for us to broaden our partner base and secure project finance for the first Dragon Farms in Taiwanese waters.”

Taiwan remains a strategically important market for Minesto, with the collaboration with National Taiwan Ocean University and an industrial partnership with Taiwan Cement Green Energy in place, supporting joint efforts to advance the commercialisation of ocean-energy solutions tailored to Taiwan’s future baseload renewable power needs.

National assessments continue to highlight strong tidal streams and robust ocean-current flows in Taiwan’s surrounding waters, underscoring the long-term potential for predictable, renewable electricity generation. These conditions align closely with Minesto’s tidal technology and Taiwan’s ambition to build a resilient, low-carbon energy system.

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