Description

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 amounts of reactants. Therefore, owing to their high surface area and small size, nanomaterials are gaining significant interest from researchers and developers in that market. Carbon nanomaterials (carbon nanotubes and graphene) seem to be emerging materials in terms of number of research projects and patents.

The Nanotech TechVision Opportunity Engine (TOE) provides intelligence on technologies, products, processes, applications, and strategic insights on nanotechnology-related innovations and their impact across various industries. Technology focus areas include nanomaterials, nanocoatings, nanohealthcare, nanomedicine, and nanomanufacturing.

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

Keywords: Nanocatalyst, nanorods, graphene, nanodiode, smoke fillers, air purification