Description

Significant breakthroughs in nanomaterials for applications in energy storage, gas sensing, and materials for hindering microbial growth are seen to be driving the High-Tech materials business. Materials are gaining high interest in health care, such as the use of nanomaterials in medical devices to prevent propagation of diseases due to microbes. Also, nanomaterials have enabled solutions to answer drawbacks of lithium-based storage devices pertaining to cost, ageing, and robustness. Development of materials such as graphene, which has a high surface area, is extremely lightweight, and has high charging capability, is also gaining high interest. Today, nanomaterials are playing a vital role in increasing the efficiency and performance of gas sensors by enabling high sensitivity, good reversibility, excellent stability, and other beneficial attributes. Further, fabricating doped nanomaterial is also a key area of interest as it is aimed at enhancing multi-functionality. Researchers are working toward incremental developments to enable new industrial and commercial benefits. The innovations profiled in this issue of the High-Tech Materials TOE are recent research innovations that are focused toward sustainability in the high-tech materials industry.

The High-Tech Materials TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides intelligence on technologies, products, processes, applications, and strategic insights on various materials across industries. Some material technologies include lightweight materials, bio–based materials, ceramics, smart materials, fibers, nanomaterials, responsive materials, polymers, woven and non woven materials, polymers and plastics and packaging materials.

The Chemicals and Advanced Materials cluster tracks research and innovation trends and developments across specialty chemicals, plastics, polymers, chemicals, bio-chemicals, metals, coatings, thinfilms, surface treatments, composites, alloys, oil and gas, fuel additives, fibers, and several other related technologies and its impact and application across industries.

Keywords: Carbon, graphene, semiconducting nanomaterials, antimicrobial applications, solar cells