Chemicals and Materials

3D printing of highly viscous materials, electrode materials, complex terpene synthesis, and leachable materials is seen to be driving the hi-tech materials business. Materials developed using chitosan for treatment of post trauma damage recovery are gaining high interest due to their compatibility with the host. Developing materials that will incr...

This issue of the Advanced Coating & Surface Technology TOE presents the recent innovations in anti-corrosive, packaging, and machinery industries. The current issue includes two bio-based coating ideas, which can be used for food packaging applications. The increasingly environmental awareness has continually attracted the development on bio-based...

This issue of High-Tech Materials TOE profiles materials innovations in photovoltaics, water and gas separation industry. The innovations include development of new titanium-based halide perovskites material for solar cell, ultrafiltration membrane for antibiotic resistance bacteria and genes removal, superabsorbent polymer for water absorption, a...

This issue of the Advanced Coating & Surface Technology TOE features a self-healing coating technology that could prevent accidents caused by leaked fuel tanks used in war-fare. Another technology elucidates a coating mechanism that works in the same approach as that of the insect eating plant pitcher plants. This coating prevents bio-fouling in sh...

This issue of High-Tech Materials TOE profiles materials innovations in carbon nanotube (CNT)-based threads that can be used for lightweighting purposes, photon emitting source for quantum communication made using single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on porous silicon substrates, gas-flow directed chemical vapor deposition process (CVD) productio...

This issue of the Advanced Coating & Surface Technology TOE covers innovations in ultraviolet protection, antibacterial, hydrophobic, thermal barrier, and ultra-thin ceramic coatings. A transparent coating for blocking UV light, shark-skin coating for bacterial protection, self-healing thermal barrier coating, and a coating technique to create cera...

This issue of the TOE covers innovations used in deposition techniques, fire-resistant coatings, nanocoatings, and anti-microbial coatings. In this edition, innovations on area selective atomic layer deposition have been profiled. The coatings in focus in this TOE can be used in a variety of applications such as medical, textiles, building & constr...

This edition of the Industrial Bioprocessing TOE features trends and innovations in biodegradable plastic products that are used for applications, such as, ready meal packs and edible packaging. The TOE also focuses on biodegradable footwear that is made of waste resources, and biodegradable hydrogel that can be used for bio-printing of materials t...

This issue of High-Tech Materials TOE profiles materials innovations in photovoltaics, nuclear, flame retardant, adsorbents, and oil and gas industries. The innovations include development of high performance semi-transparent organic photovoltaics, a cost-effective adsorbent for uranium extraction, halogen-free polymeric flame retardant, a multi-fu...