Chemicals and Materials

This edition of the Industrial Bioprocessing TOE features trends and innovations in agriculture and sustainable processes. The TOE focuses on various technology innovations in seed and fertilizer treatment improving crop yield. This issue also discusses innovative plastic recycling process, extracting dye from waste husk and technology for developi...

This edition of the Industrial Bioprocessing TOE features trends and innovations in bio-solar cells, carbon dioxide capture and utilization, and smart water meters. The TOE also focuses on a technological innovation for converting of wastewater into sustainable products such as bio-fertilizers and bio-fuels. The Industrial Bioprocessing TechVision...

This issue of Nanotech TOE covers recent innovations in nanomaterials for energy storage applications including a novel coating for carbon batteries, improved aluminium-ion batteries, hybrid zinc-oxide nanomaterials, and ultralight silver-wire based aerogel with high electrical conductivity. The Nanotech TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provid...

This issue of High-Tech Materials profiles fiber-reinforced soft composites that are tough and flexible, protein-based photo-responsive hydrogels, ingestible drug delivery materials with prolonged medication release, biocompatible nanofibers based on mussels for production of strong hydrogels, and a bioinspired adhesive film for signal amplificatio...

This issue of Advanced Coating & Surface Technology TOE profiles transparent fire resistant glazing and fire resistant coatings, glass substrate with low emissivity coatings, antistatic coatings on plastics, low-gloss coatings with high resistance to burnishing, and liquid adhesive coatings for protecting skin and mucous membranes. The Advanced C...

This edition of the Plastics Advisor TOE covers the latest innovations in the field of polymers and plastics for industries such as food and medical packaging. It also covers innovations based on polymer brushes and how they are disrupting the medical devices segment. The issue also covers an innovation based on the development of carbon fiber comp...

This issue of High-Tech Materials profiles development of a new method for cancer treatment and skin parameters analysis. The issue also profiles a next-generation microsensor, a semiconductor, and a cathode. The High-Tech Materials TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides intelligence on technologies, products, processes, applications, and st...

This issue of Advanced Coating & Surface Technology TOE focusses on shatter-proof glass coatings for glass containers, high temperature and high pressure subsea valve coating for use during deep sea operations, graphene composite coatings for exchangeable metering systems used for steel casting, self-healing nickel coatings for providing corrosion ...

This edition of Future Tech TOE focuses on zero friction coatings, which provide slippery surfaces that allow viscous liquids, gels, and emulsions to slide freely. The key fabrication techniques include incorporation of nanoparticle and polymer binder, layer-by-layer, nano-encapsulation and liquid impregnation or liquid infusion to create such surf...