Description

This issue of High-Tech Materials Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) showcases growth opportunities in waste-to-fuel technologies and materials for consumer electronics. Innovations in focus include a system that upgrades gas into biomethane, an anaerobic sequential up-flow reactor that delivers biogas with high methane content, an ionic gasifier that promises a sustainable solution for the small-scale waste-to-energy market, and a fast pyrolysis technology that delivers high-quality oil through a modular scale design. The TOE also covers a silicone-based soft material used for additive manufacturing, electroactive polymers used for object slippage detection, shape-memory polymers used for medical devices, UV-cured silicone elastomers for 3D printing, and liquid-crystal elastomers for multiple applications.

The High-Tech Materials 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: Biomethane, anaerobic sequential up-flow reactor, biogas, methane, ionic gasifier, fast pyrolysis technology, silicone, additive manufacturing, electroactive polymers, object slippage detection, shape-memory polymers, silicone elastomers, 3D printing, liquid-crystal elastomers