Advanced Materials

This presentation was given by XeedQ, exploring its quantum technology.

IDTechEx finds that demand for polymer materials by mass far exceeds that of metal materials for 3D printing. IDTechEx finds that polymer 3D printing is moving beyond prototyping to high-value adoption by end-users, which will propel its growth to US$21.1 billion in 2033.

Inspired by living things from trees to shellfish, researchers set out to create a plastic much like many life forms that are hard and rigid in some places and soft and stretchy in others­. Their success — a first, using only light and a catalyst to change properties such as hardness and elasticity in molecules of the same type — has brought about a new material that is 10 times as tough as natural rubber and could lead to more flexible electronics and robotics.

A presentation given by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, looking at its high moisture permeable on-skin sheet electrodes.

XeedQ is developing a room-temperature and mobile quantum processor based on diamond-defect qubits. Tess Skyrme, Technology Analyst at IDTechEx, interviewed Co-founder and CEO Dr Gopi Balasubramanian.

Kebotix combines an artificial intelligence core with robotic synthesis and characterization in a self-driving laboratory that aims for the discovery of new chemicals and materials. It is focusing on developing its own licensable materials IP. IDTechEx spoke to Cristoph Kreisbeck, Chief Product Officer at Kebotix.

Innovation roadmap for the report '5G Market 2023-2033: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players'.

Innovation roadmap for the report '5G Market 2023-2033: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players'.

Innovation roadmap for the report '5G Market 2023-2033: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players'.

Innovation roadmap for the report '5G Market 2023-2033: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players'.

Forecasts taken from IDTechEx report "5G Market 2023-2033: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players"

This premium article will introduce patterning and metallization of printed circuit boards (PCB) and look into reducing the environmental impact of these processes, additionally exploring etchant regeneration, print-and-plate, and more.

Citrine Informatics provides a materials/chemicals informatics platform which is deployed to customers as a cloud service. The company believes it leads on training on small datasets. IDTechEx spoke to Citrine Informatics' CEO and Co-founder Greg Mulholland and Director of Marketing Joshua Tappan.

In this article, IDTechEx will cover the growth drivers of advanced semiconductor packaging technologies on data center applications, as well as give several examples of cutting-edge commercial server products that adopt advanced semiconductor packaging technologies. The content of this article is from IDTechEx's newly released market research report, "Advanced semiconductor packaging 2022-2033".

Today, synthetic fabrics make up about 60% of overall apparel and continue to grow at a faster rate of demand than cotton, wool, hemp, and other natural fibers. The low cost of synthetic polymers, as well as favorable properties such as waterproofing or stretch, keep synthetic fabrics well in demand. But almost all synthetic fabrics are made from petroleum, so it is a key target for the transition to a circular economy. One significant approach for this is to substitute petroleum feedstock for bio-based feedstock to make the same synthetic fabrics without a trade-off in the properties that make synthetics such an asset for the textiles industry. In this premium article, IDTechEx looks at the most prevalent classes of synthetic textiles for apparel, polyesters, nylon (polyamides), polyurethanes (including spandex), and acrylic, and discusses the efforts being made to transition these materials to bio-based.

Although just cute little creatures at first glance, the microscopic geckos and octopuses fabricated by 3D laser printing could open up new opportunities in fields such as microrobotics or biomedicine. The printed microstructures are made from novel materials - known as smart polymers - whose size and mechanical properties can be tuned on demand and with high precision.

The Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) sector has experienced growing corporate interest and swift development, with record investments over the past year in technologies that draw carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere.

Scientists have developed a durable 1-cm2 perovskite solar cell capable of generating electricity for more than 1,000 continuous hours at a photoelectric conversion efficiency (i.e., power generation efficiency) of more than 20% in exposure to sunlight. Because this solar cell can be fabricated on the surface of a plastic material at approximately 100°C, this technique may be used to develop light, versatile solar cells.

Morphotonics is a Dutch developer and manufacturer of roll-to-plate nanoimprint lithography equipment and consumables. These systems allow imprinting nano and micron textures on far larger substrates than established wafer-scale processes, making them suitable for larger individual components and production rates. IDTechEx spoke to Erhan Ercan, Morphotonics' Head of Global Business Development.