Chemicals and Materials

Catalysts are substances that can decrease the activation energy while improving reactivity and conversion of chemical reactions. These materials are key requirements in many industries such as energy, automotive, and food processing to name a few. An ideal catalyst provides high surface area to volume ratio in order to react with the highest amoun...

This Industrial Bioprocessing TOE features innovations across resistant or modified starch. With the alarming increase in obesity and diabetes around the world, the advantages of resistant starch for improved obesity and diabetes management has drawn the industry’s attention. The TOE depicts the corresponding patent scenario, along with strategic...

Coating of textiles is done to enhance the properties of the fabric (such as durability, weather resistance, UV protection, flame resistance, anti-bacterial protection, and high strength). Polymeric coated textiles are prominent with their application extending to automotive, transportation, and industrial manufacturing apart from traditional prote...

Adhesives and sealants play an important role in meeting the growing need in the automotive industry for improvements in driving comfort, performance, safety and reliability of vehicles. A top level analysis of the critical needs and possible solutions show that high performance adhesives and sealants can help prevent component failures and hence r...

Heat-resistant polymers or high-performance polymers as they are widely known in the industry, are considered to hold solutions to key challenges faced in multiple industries. The unique differentiation offered by this class of polymers to deliver desired performance at temperatures above 150 degrees C is gaining significant attention from high gro...

Nanocatalysis is an emerging technology with significant research being done on materials and production methodologies. The technology utilizes materials in the form of catalysts for a range of applications (both hetero and homogeneous). For heterogenous catalysis, nanoparticles of metals, semiconductors, oxides, and similar materials have been use...

This Industrial Bioprocessing TOE features depicts trends across agriculture digitalization. The overall regional trends in the adoption and development of digitalization of agriculture, drivers, and restraints for the adoption of these digitalization technologies, as well as, a group of selected significant patents with respect to agriculture digi...

Additives for use in glass substrates assist in the improvement of adhesion of coatings to the substrate and scratch resistance, additionally reducing problems of manufacturing, durability, and visual appeal retention for various industries including automotive, glazing, construction, and even the display industry. Currently, researchers are focus...

Continuous glass fibers have evolved through the years since the commercialization of the first product in 1935. Manufactured using a mix of raw materials such as silicates, soda, clay, boric acid, and a range of metal oxides, glass fibers exhibit a combination of desirable mechanical and chemical properties based on their chemical composition. Wit...