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White biotechnology production is growing, with the market for biomanufactured chemicals expected to expand at a CAGR of 11.1% over the next decade. Growth is being driven by regulatory pressure and a shift toward bio-based industrial processes. In this report, IDTechEx analyzes current trends in the biomanufacturing of chemicals, covering over 35 bio-based products across key sectors. It evaluates enabling technologies such as enzyme engineering and synthetic biology, and assesses feedstocks, sustainability, and end-use applications. The report also discusses major market players, recent plant shutdowns, commercial challenges, and the evolving regulatory landscape shaping the industry.

The Li-ion battery recycling market is expected to boom over the next two decades. Recyclers and automotive OEMs will look to extract valuable and critical raw materials from the growing volume of retired Li-ion batteries coming to market. This will be key for domesticating a stable material supply, generating revenues, and meeting regulated targets. This IDTechEx report provides market forecasts, analyses on technologies, economics, policies, and key player commercial activity.

This report characterizes the ion exchange membrane market, technologies, and players. Key growth opportunities for ion exchange membrane applications in water electrolysis for green hydrogen production, hydrogen fuel cells, and redox flow batteries are critically examined. The report studies trends in ion exchange membrane material composition and design, evaluates the impact of potential PFAS restrictions and the rise of alternative hydrocarbon membranes. It offers a detailed 10-year ion exchange membrane market forecast, projected to exceed US$2.9 billion by 2035, for perfluorinated and hydrocarbon ion exchange membranes, segmented by application.

This report characterizes the thermal protection system technology landscape for spacecraft. Past and future TPS materials and designs are assessed, and emerging opportunities in space logistics evaluated to present a market outlook up to 2035.

Despite previous unsuccessful attempts to commercialize metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), these materials are now finding opportunities as energy-efficient alternatives for a range of critical technologies that demand high-energy inputs. These include carbon capture, water harvesting for potable water production and HVAC systems, and various chemical separations and purification processes (e.g. refrigerant reclamation, PFAS removal, gas separations, and direct lithium extraction). Within the market, there are ongoing efforts by several players to upscale the production of key MOFs for these applications and lower production costs. This report addresses these trends and considers applications of MOFs for several other early-stage technologies, including hydrogen storage, energy storage, sensors, and more. Market forecasts are given in yearly mass demand and market value segmented by application.

This report gives an in-depth third party assessment of the technological and commercial progress of self-healing materials. Coverage of 20+ application areas including consideration of TRL. IDTechEx provides technological analysis, identifies growth opportunities and potential pain points, and offers an independent outlook for the commercialization of self-healing materials.

This report uncovers the evolving critical materials demand trends for lithium-ion batteries and provides comprehensive overviews on mineral extraction and processing technology advancements, and market supply outlooks for five key minerals: lithium, cobalt, copper, nickel, and natural graphite. The global mineral supply outlook is based on over 649 data points from land-based mine operations and projects. Additionally, the report examines the potential of deep-sea mining, evaluating its opportunities and challenges as a future source of critical minerals.

This comprehensive report assesses the aerogel markets, technologies, trends, and players. There is coverage across key commercial and emerging application areas, with granular market forecast covering 2021-2035 by application. The report characterizes the fast-growing application area of aerogels as fire protection materials in EV batteries.

This report identifies the key regulations affecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or forever chemicals, in different emerging technology areas. Coverage on PFAS in electric vehicles, sustainable packaging, 5G, sealing, and hydrogen economy reveal the impact of PFAS in emerging markets. With assessments of commercial and developing PFAS alternatives in these growing high-tech markets, this report provides extensive analysis of the market potential of PFAS alternatives in key innovative technology areas.

The report covers the emerging market for sustainable polymers in automotive applications including technologies and players. The report breaks down the implementation and analyzes the challenges and future outlook for the adoption of sustainable materials. The areas of focus are recycled plastics, bioplastics, composites, interior and exterior components, upholstery, tires, and end-of-life. Use of recycled plastics and bioplastics are expected to grow significantly over the forecast period 2025-2035 with CAGRs of 29.1% and 25.1% respectively.

As regulations on PFAS in drinking water tighten around the world, it is important to understand the opportunity for PFAS treatment technologies. This report highlights the technology and commercial readiness of incumbent and novel PFAS removal technologies as well as emerging and established PFAS destruction technologies. Key applications areas, like PFAS drinking water treatment, AFFF, landfill leachate, and more, are analyzed extensively to highlight the opportunities in this emerging sustainable market.

Bioplastics manufacturers are scaling production rapidly and the industry is expected to grow by 12.4% CAGR in the next ten years. Manufacturers are driven by brand-owner pull to meet decarbonization commitments, consumer demand for sustainability, and single-use fossil-based plastic ban laws. In this report, IDTechEx explores the drivers of the bioplastic market's growth, analyses key and emerging technologies, examines end-of-life options, discusses applications, and forecasts the opportunities and growth of the market.

This report offers critical market intelligence on technologies that can directly extract and recover lithium from brines. It includes a detailed analysis of sector players and activities, comparing costs and sustainability profiles of both established and emerging mining practices. The report identifies key challenges and opportunities within the industry and provides predictions on future lithium supply, segmented by source type, in response to the growing demand for lithium.

Helium is a finite resource that plays a critical role across several industries including medical imaging, aerospace engineering, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, semiconductor manufacturing, fiber optics, particle physics, and many more. Its high thermal conductivity, chemical inertness, and cryogenic properties uniquely lend itself to its applications with limited substitutes or no available alternatives in some cases. Owing to helium's key role in energy transition (e.g. electric vehicles and batteries) and digital transformation (semiconductors, electronics, AI, telecoms, etc.), and others (e.g. space exploration), it is classified as a critical mineral by governmental bodies, e.g. the EU and Canada. Despite its importance, due to a lack of production diversification, and geopolitical strains, the helium market is renowned for its susceptibility to chronic supply shortages and price volatility. This report critically assesses the outlook for helium production, the role of helium in key industries, the availability and viability of helium substitutes, and helium reclamation technologies, and several other market trends. Market forecasts are given in yearly helium demand segmented by 9 main applications and yearly production capacity by region.

This report characterizes secondary source critical material recovery markets, technologies, and players. Comprehensive technical evaluation of 15 critical material extraction and recovery technologies for rare-earth elements, lithium-ion battery technology metals, critical semiconductors, and platinum group metals. Market roadmaps for emerging secondary sources, value chain analysis, and twenty-year market forecasts from 2025 to 2045. This report identifies a significant value opportunity, with the critical material recovery market forecast to grow to over US$110 bn by 2045, at a CAGR of 12.7%.

This report provides an in-depth technical analysis of thermal interface materials for EV batteries, power electronics, data centers, EMI shielding, 5G, ADAS, and consumer electronics. 10-year granular area (m2), mass (kg), revenue (US$), and TIM unit price (US$) forecasts are given by application. The report covers recent developments in TIM fillers, high-performance TIMs, successful commercial uses, and historic TIM player acquisitions and partnerships. The report also identifies future TIM trends.

IDTechEx's latest metamaterials report thoroughly explores the technologies, applications, and markets of optical and radio-frequency metamaterials. Drawing on primary interviews with key players in this fast-evolving market and leveraging existing research, the report offers comprehensive forecasting, industry overviews, player analysis, and assessment of key applications including reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for telecommunications and metalenses in smartphones. It provides valuable insights into the evolving landscape of this potentially transformative industry.

Materials Informatics represents an R&D paradigm shift by fundamentally accelerating the time from innovation to market. It represents the digital transformation of the materials industry, with AI driving material development. There are multiple strategic approaches and many notable success stories; missing this transition will be costly. This report provides key insights into the market, forecasting its growth to 2034. Readers will get a detailed understanding of the players, business models, technology, and the application areas. Over 30 company profiles are included, giving primary insights into this fast-evolving industry.

The increasing deployment of 5G devices globally has made this a multi-billion-dollar industry. The most revolutionary aspect of the 5G network relies on high frequency 5G technologies, which will take off later in the decade. mmWave 5G devices will use low-loss materials to reduce the transmission loss at both the PCB and package level. It drives the low-loss materials market for 5G, which will be over US$2.1B by 2034.

Materials demand for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells is set to grow in line with an expanding fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) market, alongside fuel cell ships and trains. This IDTechEx report contains market forecasts, benchmarking studies, player analysis, technology trends and latest developments for components in PEM fuel cells, including bipolar plates (BPP), gas diffusion layers (GDL), catalyst coated membrane (CCM), membrane electrode assemblies (MEA), ionomers, and platinum catalysts.

This report comprehensively identifies the major technologies and trends in the vegan bio-based leather market including mycelium leather, plant-based leather, microbial leather and lab-grown leather. The report identifies 70+ companies, analyzing technological readiness, manufacturing processes, material benchmarking, applications, and challenges. A 10-year market forecast highlights the growth in demand for vegan bio-based leather.

The electrification and automation of the automotive industry creates a new demand for copper in a range of applications. This report covers baseline copper consumption in vehicles and explains where copper is used in electric vehicles, where copper is used in autonomous vehicles, and how technology trends across the vehicle will impact future automotive copper consumption.

Development of green hydrogen plants will create demand for many materials and components needed to construct electrolyzer stacks. This IDTechEx report discusses the incumbent and future materials as well as manufacturing methods for the key components used in AWE, AEMEL, PEMEL and SOEC stacks. Components and materials covered include catalysts & electrodes, membranes/electrolytes, porous transport layers (PTLs), gas diffusion layers (GDLs), membrane electrode assembly (MEA) methods, bipolar plates, gaskets & stack assembly components. The report also contains comprehensive lists of electrolyzer stack manufacturers and material suppliers as well as case studies of companies supplying materials and developing new materials or manufacturing methods. Finally, granular 10-year market forecasts by component and material type for AWE, PEMEL and SOEC stacks are included.

This report offers a detailed independent analysis of the technological and commercial progress of graphene and other 2D materials. Coverage across 18 application areas including segmented market forecasts from 2024 to 2034. IDTechEx has over a decade of experience covering the graphene industry, predicting growth to a market value of US$1.6 billion by 2034.

IDTechEx's report 'EMI Shielding for Electronics 2024-2034' explores the competing strategies and materials for protecting sensitive electronic components. It covers the transition from board to package level shielding, and from sputtering to spraying/printing. Players and opportunities are evaluated, and demand for EMI materials across multiple application sectors are forecast.

This report provides a comprehensive technological analysis and market examination on quantum dots for various applications. Forecast coverage includes a global market of 11 application sectors by product, weight, and market value. The global quantum dot material market will reach US$550 million by 2034, with even larger market opportunities in quantum dot solutions and quantum-dot-enabled products.

This report provides a definitive assessment of the carbon nanotube market for the period 2023-2033. IDTechEx has an extensive history in the field of nanocarbons and their technical analysts and interview-led approach brings the reader unbiased outlooks, benchmarking studies, and player assessments on this diverse and expanding industry.

The commercial use of gas separation membranes is not new; the industry grew considerably from the 1980s to the early 2000s to become a stable market of modest size. As market drivers accelerate applications with gas separation needs, primarily for decarbonization, and materials developments mature; the market will enter a new phase of growth. Gas Separation Membranes 2023-2033 provides a critical technology roadmap and market outlook for this evolving industry.

Electrically conductive adhesive (ECAs) are a competitor to solder. ECAs are set to become a key conductive joining technology across several industries, such as flexible electronics, in-mold electronics, and wearable technologies. This report includes key insights and commercial outlooks for the global electrically conductive adhesive market. The report considers electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs), including isotropic conductive adhesives (ICAs), anisotropic conductive pastes (ACPs) and anisotropic conductive films (ACFs). 10-year ECA market forecasts are given for each application area.