This report characterizes the humanoid robotics markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across humanoids in automotive, home-use and logistics industries, technical analysis of critical humanoid robot components, historic market data from 2023-2025 and market forecasts from 2026 to 2036. The humanoid robot market across automotive, logistics, and home-use applications is forecast to increase rapidly over the next five years, reaching around US$25 billion by the early 2030s, before growth moderates and the market gradually moves towards saturation by 2036 (US$29.5 billion).

This report characterizes the edge AI chip markets, technologies, and players. Granular forecasts over a 10-year period (up to and including 2036) - along with surveys of key edge applications for AI including smartphones, humanoid robots, and automotive. This report reveals significant opportunity in various parts of the edge AI chip landscape, with the edge AI chip market forecast to grow to over US$80 billion by 2036.

Demand for Li-ion battery packs in electric vehicles will continue to increase over the coming decade as electrification efforts continue to grow. With this growth comes increasing demand for materials for battery packs and cells. This IDTechEx report provides forecasts and analyses on EV battery materials demand, technology trends and benchmarking for various components, and an analysis of demand from individual application markets across the EV space.

This report provides a comprehensive assessment of key blue hydrogen production technologies, leading players and projects, supply chains, materials, and regulatory developments in major global markets. It includes a comparison of the main blue hydrogen technologies with 10-year market forecasts, segmented by 6 technologies, 7 application areas, and 3 regions of adoption. The report also examines applicable carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies and discusses the drivers, opportunities, and outlook of the blue hydrogen market.

This report characterizes the optics for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR, AR and MR) devices, analyzing markets, technologies and players. It provides in-depth coverage individual optics technologies and forecasts their uptake in spatial computing from 2026 to 2036, alongside 10-year forecasts for the entire VR, AR and MR headset market. It outlines growing opportunity, with the VR, AR and MR headset market forecast to grow to US$22.6 billion by 2036.

Conventional first-generation biofuels, such as bioethanol and biodiesel, have seen rapid commercialization. However, many countries are now transitioning toward more advanced biofuels due to competition with food production, lifecycle emissions and land use change concerns. Advanced sustainable fuels can be produced from non-food feedstocks, including second, third, and fourth-generation biofuels, as well as e-fuels derived from renewable electricity, green hydrogen, and captured CO2. These synthetic fuels are designed to seamlessly integrate with existing internal combustion engines and global fuel infrastructure. In this report, IDTechEx provides an in-depth analysis of advanced biofuels (second generation and beyond) and e-fuels. The analysis covers production processes, relevant policies, key technological innovations, technology providers, and project developers. It also explores the techno-economic challenges and opportunities in the sector. The report focuses on key fuels such as renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and renewable methanol, among others. Detailed market forecasts are provided, broken down by production regions (Europe, North America, South America, and APAC) and/or technological pathways (e.g., HEFA/HVO, gasification-FT, and power-to-liquids/e-fuels) for renewable diesel, SAF, and renewable methanol.

This report analyses material opportunities in the quantum technology market. The report investigates the potential of superconductors, photonic (including PICs), nanomaterials, and diamond for applications in quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communications & networking. The report contains 7 new granular forecast lines for 2026-2046, with the total quantum market for the materials covered in this report projected to grow to US$18.9B by 2046 with a CAGR of 23.1%. The findings in this report are built on market research including over 30 company profiles on key players in the industry.

IDTechEx forecasts significant growth in the global drone market through 2036, driven by rising commercial adoption across agriculture, logistics, inspection, military, and emergency response. The Drone Market 2026-2036 report provides a comprehensive analysis of the global drone market, covering both commercial drones and consumer UAVs, and includes detailed segmentation across fixed-wing and rotary-wing platforms. This report offers a fully rebuilt drone market forecast, incorporating updated historical data, 10-year volume and revenue projections, and scenario-based outlooks across eight major application areas. In addition to market sizing, the report examines key enabling technologies, including autonomy, navigation systems, SLAM, flight-control architectures, and drone sensors such as cameras, LiDAR, radar, IMUs, and pressure and ultrasonic sensors. IDTechEx also presents an updated sensor-per-drone forecast and a long-term drone sensor market outlook, providing insights into payload trends and hardware requirements. Supported by a fully updated global regulatory analysis and over 100 pages of application-level research, this report helps stakeholders -- drone manufacturers, operators, investors, and regulators -- better understand where market opportunities lie, how regulatory frameworks shape deployment, and which technologies are most likely to define the next decade of UAV innovation.

Demand for battery storage in commercial and industrial applications will increase across a breadth of industries including data centers, telecommunication, electric vehicle charging, construction, agriculture, and mining. BESS players across a range of both Li-ion and non-Li-ion technologies will be looking to play and take market share from incumbent Li-ion BESS giants. This IDTechEx reports provides forecasts and analyses on C&I BESS applications, players, projects, technology trends, costs, and benchmarking.

Direct lithium extraction (DLE) provides sustainable and efficient lithium production and affords countries greater supply chain security, leading to its significant growth. Commercial adsorption technologies will be accompanied by ion exchange, solvent extraction, membranes, and electrochemical process, while DLE also creates opportunities for geothermal and oilfield brine extraction. IDTechEx provides analyses on DLE technologies, players, projects, regulations, and their impact on global lithium supply through 10-year forecasts out to 2036.

Service robots are becoming increasingly popular. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the major application areas of service robots, including delivery and logistics robots, cleaning and disinfection robots, social robots, agricultural robots, kitchen and restaurant robots, underwater robots, construction robots, and search and rescue robots. It covers key technologies, market analysis, and 10-year granular regional market forecasts. The report provides an understanding of the market dynamics, competitive landscape, market outlook, and promising applications.

IDTechEx's "Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) 2026-2036" explores technical innovations and packaging trends, analyzing the value chain. It evaluates industry players and forecasts CPO's impact on AI architecture. Central to the report is the recognition of advanced semiconductor packaging (2.5D & 3D) as the cornerstone of co-packaged optics technology. IDTechEx places significant emphasis on understanding the potential roles that various semiconductor packaging technologies may play within the realm of CPO.

IDTechEx forecasts that the global sensor market will reach US$250B by 2036 as global meta-trends in mobility, AI, robotics, 6G connectivity and IoT drive sensor demand. IDTechEx's latest Sensors 2026-2036 report provides extensive analysis of the global sensor market, including 58 company profiles and insights collected from over 20 related sensor reports. Summarizing IDTechEx's extensive sensors report portfolio, this research contains over 35 sensor technology SWOT analyses, 24 technology readiness level roadmaps, material requirements and supplier information across future mobility, IoT, wearables, biomedical, edge computing, environmental sensing and more. This sensor market analysis includes updated granular ten-year sensor forecasts, segmented by sensor technology.

Transmission losses become increasingly significant as communication systems move toward higher frequencies, making low-loss materials essential to preserve signal strength and integrity. These materials are critical for 5G mmWave and future 6G, telecommunications, automotive radar systems, and high-speed digital applications. IDTechEx's report offers an independent and comprehensive analysis of market trends, examining key technologies and application areas driving demand for low-loss materials. Drawing on primary research, the report delivers insights into industry developments, analyzes leading players, and benchmarks products across critical material performance characteristics. The report also includes 10-year demand forecasts segmented by application and material type.

Redox flow batteries (RFB) will be used for emerging applications including data center decarbonization and long duration energy storage (LDES) amid the growth of variable renewable energy. Vanadium, organic and iron-based RFB chemistries' performance and cost should improve through development in cell stack components, electrolyte manufacturing, and energy storage policy. This IDTechEx report provides forecasts and analysis on RFB technologies, players, projects, policies, components, materials, applications, economics and business opportunities.

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 characterizes the lithium-ion battery market, covering technologies, players and applications. Coverage across four major sectors (battery electric cars, electric vehicles, consumer electronics and stationary energy storage), with historic data from 2020-2024 and market forecasts from 2025 to 2036. It is the most comprehensive and up-to-date study compiled for this product area. It reveals significant opportunity, with the lithium-ion battery market forecast to grow to over US$300bn by 2036.

The rapidly growing electric vehicle market puts a huge demand on electric motors across several global regions and different vehicle categories. Within this market, there are trends around motor technology and topology, power and torque density, materials utilization, and thermal management. This report addresses these trends within the markets for battery-electric or hybrid cars, vans, trucks, buses, two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars, with OEM use-cases, benchmarking, and granular market forecasts.

Unlock the potential of solid-state batteries with IDTechEx's in-depth report. Covering market forecasts, cutting-edge technologies, electrolyte innovations, safety features, and regional activities, this report offers unparalleled insights. It also dives into cell-to-system design, manufacturing, recycling, and regulatory trends. With profiles of 49 key players, it's an ultimate guide to navigating the US$10 billion solid-state battery market up to 2036.

This report covers in-depth technical analysis of different cooling technologies for data centers, including air cooling, single-phase direct-to-chip cooling, two-phase direct-to-chip cooling, single-phase immersion, two-phase immersion, and microfluidic cooling. The report covers historic data from 2022 to 2024 and forecasts the market size (US$) and volume demand (units) for liquid cooling components for the next 10 years (2026-2036). The report also analyses thermal interface material (TIM2 and TIM1/TIM1.5) for data center components and projects their market size and area (m2) demand over the next 10 years. The report is one of the most comprehensive reports in the market, analysing different types of cooling technologies for advanced processors and data center applications. With significant investments in data centers, IDTechEx forecasts that the liquid cooling component market size for data centers will exceed US$4 billion by 2036.

This report identifies the key and emerging thermal management and fire protection materials and systems used for BESS safety. Analysis of the regulatory landscape, along with assessment of market players, helps to formulate granular ten-year forecasts for the global BESS fire safety market.

IDTechEx has been studying telecommunications technologies for many years, and this report reflects its latest research on the 6G market. This report is built on extensive in-house expertise, covering the latest 6G technology development trends, key applications, vendor activities, and market outlook. Key aspects in this report include THz technologies trend, semiconductors for THz communication, THz phase array antenna modules, 6G radio analysis, low-loss materials, packaging trend for 6G, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), metamaterials, non-terrestrial networks, direct-2-cell, integrated sensing and communication, 6G market, and future outlook.

IDTechEx's report on electric vehicle (EV) power electronics explores the trends and applications of wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors in the EV industry, the rapid adoption of SiC, and potential future of GaN. IDTechEx looks at the supply chain for EV power electronics, from raw material to automotive OEMs, for the incumbent Si IGBT and the disruptive SiC MOSFET. In a rapidly changing space where joint ventures and collaborations are advancing rapidly, IDTechEx covers developments in inverter technologies, 800V architectures, and the advantages of WBG for lower power applications in the onboard charger (OBC) and DC-DC converter. Forecasts are projected from 2026 to 2036, with the total market for power electronics set to exceed US$42 billion by 2036.

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 materials, critical semiconductors, and platinum group metals. This report provides market roadmaps for emerging secondary sources, value chain analysis, and twenty-year market forecasts from 2026 to 2046. This report identifies a significant value opportunity, with the critical material recovery market forecast to grow to over US$66 billion annually by 2046, at a CAGR of 9.2%.

This report characterizes the market for biomanufactured specialty chemicals, covering food additives, cosmetic and personal care ingredients, pigments, and enzymes. With global capacity forecast to grow from 445 ktpa in 2026 to 701 ktpa by 2036, representing a CAGR of 4.7%, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this sector. It provides detailed analysis of fermentation-based technologies, synthetic biology advances, regulatory drivers, and active industry players shaping this transition.

This IDTechEx report characterizes CCUS markets, carbon capture technologies, and CCUS players, providing coverage across point source carbon capture, direct air capture, CO2 storage, CO2 transportation, and emerging CO2 utilization. It reveals significant momentum behind CCUS, with IDTechEx forecasting global CCUS capture capacity to reach 0.7 gigatonnes per annum by 2036. Forecasts encompass CCUS capacity by CO2 end point (enhanced oil recovery, emerging utilization, or dedicated storage), CCUS capacity by region, CCUS capacity split by direct air capture vs point source capture, then further segmentation into 6 industrial sectors. Included are 60 company profiles, with 350+ companies investigated in the report.

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 2026 to 2036. IDTechEx has over a decade of experience covering the graphene industry, predicting growth to a market value of US$2.7 billion by 2036.

This report comprehensively examines advanced coatings technologies, including key developments, drivers and commercial activity throughout the coatings industry. It covers application technologies, alternative materials and key markets, including 10-year granular market forecasts. This report reveals insights into fire protection, EMI shielding, corrosion protection, dielectric, thermally conductive, self-healing, PFAS-free and IR reflective coating technologies. EV, aerospace, wind, data centers, telecommunications, oil & gas and electronics are among the markets covered.

This report provides critical insight into the fast-growing micro EV industry of electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, and microcars. IDTechEx's report highlights critical sales trends across all major global markets. Key players and models are benchmarked, including analyses of battery technologies, motor power, and pricing. 20-year granular forecasts broken down by region, power class, and battery chemistry highlight how micro EVs will grow to be an over US$90 billion opportunity by 2046.

This report characterizes the quantum sensor market, key technologies, and players. Coverage across 20 quantum sensing technology areas, with applications of quantum sensors in electric vehicles, navigation, medical imaging, and quantum computing with market forecasts from 2026 to 2046. It reveals significant opportunity, with the quantum sensor market forecast to reach US$1.9bn by 2046.

This report, "Glass in Semiconductors 2026-2036: Applications, Emerging Technologies, and Market Insights," is the first assessment that maps the complete glass supply chain - from carrier wafers to blank drilled panels, finished IC substrates, interposers, RF/MEMS dies, IPD chips, and photonic tiles. It benchmarks glass against organic and silicon alternatives, details breakthrough TGV drilling and metallization methods, and analyzes the opportunities and challenges. The study delivers ten-year unit and revenue forecasts for seven product segments, revealing a market poised to US$4.40 billion by 2036 with 14.2% CAGR.

This report provides an in-depth technical analysis of thermal interface materials (including TIM1/TIM2/TIM1.5) for EV batteries, power electronics, advanced semiconductor packaging, space and satellite technologies, 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.

This report covers the supercapacitor market, covering three main technologies, a broad range of players and products and seven distinct market sectors. The market is forecast from 2026 to 2036, providing comprehensive analysis of growth trends across the different sectors. It reveals a healthy market with a CAGR of 15.3% and a total market size of nearly US$5 billion by 2036.

IDTechEx has been studying RFID for over two decades and we have just released our latest version of the RFID market research report: "RFID 2026-2036: Forecasts, Players and Opportunities". This report is built on our expertise, covering the latest RFID development trends, key player analysis, and market outlook. The report provides an unbiased review of RFID technology, companies, applications, and the market, providing the reader with a unique insight into the whole RFID sector, including its current state and future possibilities.

As the microplastics regulatory landscape develops, industries and decision-makers require accurate, forward-looking insights to stay competitive. IDTechEx's dedicated report "Microplastics 2025: Regulations, Technologies, and Alternatives" offers comprehensive analysis of current trends, the shifting regulatory landscape, and emerging technologies tackling microplastic filtration and capture. The report also evaluates promising material alternatives and delivers critical insights into market trends, ongoing challenges, and the future outlook for stakeholders navigating this emerging field.

This report characterizes rare earth magnet markets, technologies, and players. Global rare earth mining, separation, refining, and magnet production supply chains are analyzed. Technologies, applications, and demand trends for neodymium and samarium-cobalt magnet materials are characterized, as well as the emerging opportunities in recycling. Granular 10-year rare earth magnet market forecasts, including magnet supply, demand and recycling by weight (tonnes) and annual revenue forecasts (US$M) are presented for NdFeB and SmCo magnets, with the market forecast to grow to over US$9.19B by 2036.

IDTechEx's Autonomous Vehicle Software Market report provides a holistic overview of the current cutting edge of autonomous driving sensors, introducing hardware and regulations before moving on to different approaches to software for ADAS and autonomous driving. It analyses key developments from players such as Waymo and Tesla, and also enabling technologies such as HD maps, steer-by-wire, and the applications of AI for software and software development. The report includes a 20-year forecast of the automotive software industry, separated by region and SAE level, forecasted in US$ and annual unit sales.

Quantum computing promises a revolution in computational capabilities. This accessible quantum computing market report evaluates key technologies, companies, drivers for growth and adoption barriers across this emerging industry. Multiple competing quantum computer technologies are assessed: superconducting, silicon-spin, photonic, trapped ion, neutral atom, topological, diamond defect, and annealing. Detailed SWOT analysis, company roadmaps, and benchmarking are provided for each modality, along with twenty-year market forecast outlining the prospects of each.

This report analyses thermal management approaches for electric vehicle batteries, motors, power electronics, and the vehicle as a whole. A deep dive is taken into OEM strategies, materials, fluids, and technologies. 10 year granular market forecasts are included segmented by technology.

IDTechEx's Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) Market Report 2026-2036 provides a detailed analysis of the transformation from legacy vehicle architectures to software-defined platforms. The report covers the rise of central compute and zonal architectures, SDV monetization models such as OTA updates and in-vehicle payments, and the integration of generative AI in next-gen vehicles. It also explores V2X technologies including C-V2X, DSRC, and 5G, with region-by-region regulatory insights and adoption forecasts. Forecasts span SDV hardware revenue, unit sales, and feature monetization through 2036. This report is essential for OEMs, Tier 1s, and mobility tech developers seeking to capitalize on the shift to connected, software-centric vehicle ecosystems.

This report provides critical insight into the extensive Li-ion battery additives industry. IDTechEx's reports highlights critical trends in additive materials, including binders, conductive additives, and electrolyte additives. Analysis includes key player and material benchmarking, wider industry trends, breakdowns of emerging material and processing technologies, and the prospect of PFAS remediation in Li-ion cells. Granular 10-year forecasts provide greater detail on how the battery additives market will grow into an US$18 billion opportunity by 2036.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of thermal challenges in advanced semiconductor packaging (ASP), covering power delivery evaluation for 2.5D and 3D ICs, identification of key thermal bottlenecks, assessment of emerging thermal interface materials, and analysis of advanced cooling technologies for next-generation packaging technologies. Coverage across different emerging TIM1 and TIM1.5 for ASP, historic market size data from 2021 to 2025 and a market forecast for TIM1 and TIM1.5 from 2026 to 2036 are all included, along with the market forecast for liquid and microfluidic cooling.

This report characterizes the emerging and next-generation microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies that are set to disrupt the US$15 billion a year industry. Advanced MEMS gyroscopes for inertial sensing, chip-scale gravimeters, and MEMS speakers are all emerging technologies targeting different use-cases and markets. This report covers the enabling MEMS advancements underpinning these new technologies, assessing market readiness, and covering the key players. Granular market forecasts reveal significant growth opportunities in the MEMS market.

This report analyses the sustainable composite materials market, detailing key innovations and major players in recyclable and bio-based material systems. Assessment of the green energy applications of composite materials, along with data driven benchmarking of material technologies, helps to formulate granular 20 year forecasts. The composite materials market for green energy is predicted to grow to over US$78 billion by 2046.

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 AEL, 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 AEL, PEMEL, AEMEL and SOEC stacks are included.

This report characterizes the advanced battery pack sensors market and analyses trends in remote monitoring of battery packs. Coverage across eight sensor types and review of regulation and previous trends. It is the most comprehensive analysis of advanced sensor deployments in battery packs to date and reveals opportunities in the short and medium term, with the battery pack sensor market set to exceed US$220 million by 2036 and see widespread adoption across electric vehicles and energy storage system users.

This report provides a definitive assessment of the carbon nanotube market for the period 2025-2035. 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.

This report characterizes gas separation membrane markets, materials, and players. Specific decarbonization applications covered include biogas upgrading (biomethane/RNG), CCUS (natural gas processing and post-combustion capture), hydrogen separation (ammonia production, refining & petrochemical, methanol production, blue hydrogen production, and ammonia cracking), and helium. With gas separation membrane forecasts from 2025 to 2036, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this product area. It reveals significant opportunity, with gas separation membrane markets for emerging applications growing at a 17% CAGR to 2036.

Metal additive manufacturing offers compelling value-add for high revenue generating verticals and applications, but understanding its potential is key to exploit its benefits. This report examines the status of established and emerging metal 3D printing technologies, presents technical comparison studies, analyzes metal materials, and provides detailed market forecasts for metal 3D printing. For companies in and outside metal additive manufacturing, this report presents key insights and essential knowledge.

Materials Informatics leverages AI and data-driven approaches to accelerate material discovery and development. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market, including growth projections to 2035, key players, business models, and emerging technologies. With insights from over 30 company profiles, it examines industry trends, competitive strategies, and applications. Revealing an opportunity for external materials informatics services of US$725M by 2035, it forms a valuable resource for stakeholders seeking to understand the evolving landscape of AI-driven materials innovation.

This report characterizes the AI chips for data centers and cloud markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across current and emerging chip types, including GPUs, CPUs, custom AI ASICs, and other AI chips, from over 40 chip designers, historic market data from 2022-2024, and market forecasts from 2025 to 2035. The AI chip market continues to be a significant growth area, with a market forecast to grow to US$453 billion by 2030 at a CAGR of 14% from 2025.

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the commercial fusion energy market, including detailed timelines for the fusion industry, roadmaps and funding information, and a benchmarking scheme for the 7 leading fusion approaches. The technical challenges and key players for each fusion approach are analyzed in turn, along with a focus on opportunities for materials in fusion and business models for fusion startups.

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.

This report comprehensively examines next-generation feedstocks for chemicals, including key technology innovations and commercial activity across the industry. It covers next-generation chemical feedstocks, extraction processes, and product applications. It includes granular 10-year market forecasts highlighting sustainable chemical production capacity which is set to grow at a CAGR of 16% over the next decade. This report reveals insight into drivers, challenges, and the economic viability of next-generation feedstocks for sustainable chemicals.

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 provides a comprehensive analysis of the memory and storage markets, technologies, and key players. It examines three dominant technologies - HDDs, SSDs/NAND, and DRAM - across major application areas, including AI/HPC, datacenters/cloud, and edge computing. The analysis includes historical market data from 2018 to 2024 and market forecasts from 2025 to 2035. Additionally, the report explores emerging memory technologies, such as MRAM, ReRAM, FeRAM, and PCM, detailing their market potential and adoption trends. With the global memory and storage market projected to exceed US$300 billion by 2035, this report highlights key opportunities shaping the industry's future.

This report analyses the trends and developments within advanced and next-generation Li-ion technologies, helping to provide clarity on the strengths, weaknesses, key players, addressable markets, and adoption outlooks for silicon anodes, Li-metal anodes, solid electrolytes, manganese rich cathodes, ultra high nickel NMC, alternative cathode synthesis routes, use of additives, new and optimised electrode and cell structures and designs, and battery pack and BMS developments.

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 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.

The steel sector, responsible for 7-9% of global CO₂ emissions, is evolving rapidly due to regulations and technological innovation. This IDTechEx report examines decarbonization pathways through 2035, analyzing both conventional and emerging steelmaking processes - from blast furnace modifications to hydrogen-based direct reduction and novel electrochemical approaches. Techno-economic comparisons evaluate production costs, emissions profiles, and technology readiness levels. IDTechEx's 10-year forecasts break down global steel production and green steel adoption by major regions and production methods. Case studies of established companies and startups highlight technologies approaching commercial viability, identifying dominant production methods, business models, and partnership opportunities across various steel end-use markets.

This IDTechEx report provides a market overview of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions, covering engineered and nature-based net negative solutions that draw CO₂ from the atmosphere. The report explores the technological advancements (including emerging areas such as direct ocean capture and electrochemical direct air capture), carbon credit business models, and environmental aspects of the nascent CDR industry worldwide, identifying the challenges and opportunities for growth. Included are over 35 company profiles, forecasts covering carbon dioxide removal capacity and carbon credit revenue generated segmented into 8 durable engineered CDR technologies, and over 200 companies investigated.

Sodium-ion Batteries 2025-2035 provides a comprehensive overview of the sodium-ion battery market, players, and technology trends. Battery benchmarking, material and cost analysis, key player patents, and 10 year forecasts are provided for Na-ion battery demand by volume (GWh) and value (US$).

This report analyses the entire thin film photovoltaics market, comprehensively covering the technologies, players and key trends. In depth assessment across 8 major thin film solar technologies is carried out alongside data driven benchmarking, application assessment and cost analysis. Forecasts see the entire thin film solar market exceed US$11 billion by 2035, with the emergence of perovskite photovoltaics a key growth driver.

IDTechEx's Passenger Car ADAS Market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) market, covering L2, L2+, and L3 passenger vehicles from a technology and market perspective. The report offers deep insight into the technologies available from leading private vehicle OEMs, as well as the ADAS hardware and software suppliers that support these systems. Additionally, the report examines the ADAS functions included in these vehicles, analyzing their capabilities, market adoption trends, and regulatory landscape. Complete with a 20-year forecast, this report provides a regional breakdown of the passenger car ADAS market, with projections in US dollars and annual unit sales.

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 provides a holistic view of the fuel cell electric vehicle markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across all relevant vehicle segments (cars, light commercial vehicles, buses, medium and heavy-duty trucks) using historic data from 2020 to 2024, to forecast from 2025 to 2045. It compares the opportunities in each vehicle segment for fuel cell electric vehicles, leading to the global fuel cell electric vehicle market forecasted to exceed US$90 billion by 2045.

This report offers an in-depth analysis of the current technologies used for in-cabin sensors, including IR sensors, ToF sensors, radars, torque and capacitive steering sensors, and other emerging technologies, as well as the roadmap of technologies moving forward. It also provides an overview of regional regulations, along with their impacts on the adoption of technologies enabling driver monitoring and occupant monitoring. The report also covers emerging trends in automotive OEMs, such as integrating AI features and software-defined vehicle features (e.g., vital signal monitoring, smart interiors, infotainment, etc.), reducing the costs of hardware, and leverage the existing in-cabin sensors to achieve more functions and monetize them.

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 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 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.

This report covers the lithium metal battery market, evaluating technologies, players and application markets. Coverage across four technologies (solid-state, liquid electrolyte, lithium-sulfur and lithium-air), looking at predicted deployment based on application viability and manufacturing capacity. The lithium metal battery forecast predicts capacity deployment and market size between 2025 and 2035, with the overall market expected to exceed US$13 billion by 2035.

Despite a lower fire occurrence rate than combustion vehicles, fire safety is critical for electric vehicles and presents several material opportunities. This report considers the regulation and battery design trends and how this will impact fire protection materials such as ceramics, mica, aerogels, coatings, encapsulants, foams, compression pads, phase change materials, polymers, and more. Market forecasts are given in yearly mass demand and market value segmented by material and vehicle segment.

This report categorizes the photonic integrated circuit industry, including silicon photonics. It outlines key market players, emerging materials (such as TFLN, and BTO), and key applications such as AI, to forecast the growth of the Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) market. IDTechEx also discusses emerging technologies, including Programmable Photonics, Photonic Quantum Computers, and Co-Packaged Optics. It unveils enormous opportunities, forecasting a US$50 bn+ market within a decade.

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.

This report examines sustainable electronics innovations, throughout the PCB and semiconductor industries. It covers key manufacturing processes and materials, including granular market forecasts from 2025-2035 and featuring profiles of green electronics players, this report provides indispensable insight into innovations in the electronics industry. Energy and water usage in the semiconductor industry are set to grow at a CAGR of 12% and 8% respectively, with efficient management strategies critical.

This report characterizes green data center technologies, players, and markets. With coverage across solutions for reducing scope 2 emissions (renewable power generation and energy efficiency) and scope 3 emissions (carbon credits, green concrete, and decarbonized IT manufacturing), spanning over 170 companies, and market forecasts until 2035, it is a comprehensive study compiled for this topic. It reveals promising data center decarbonization technologies, ongoing investments, projected cost savings by switching to carbon-free energy, and future CO2 emission trends.

This report covers the entire perovskite photovoltaics market, including detailed assessment of the major technology types, key and emerging market players and data driven benchmarking. There is coverage across the whole solar power market, outlining the main applications for perovskite PV technology. Historic market data from 2010-2023, alongside in-depth company interviews and cost analysis, helps to formulate granular ten year market forecasts for the perovskite PV market, detailing a significant market growth to almost US$12 billion by 2035.

Radar has grown its presence in the automotive market for two and a half decades. In 2024, more than 140 million automotive radars will be shipped, but there is still room for growth. This report covers all major trends and growth factors impacting radar in the automotive market, such as new safety standards, emerging ADAS features, and the drive for more autonomous vehicles. The report also covers evolving radar technologies, such as 4D imaging radars, movement to more advanced semiconductor technologies, distributed radar systems, and new antenna technologies. The growth in radar and technical evolution is captured in IDTechEx's 20-year market forecast covering unit sales, revenue, radar by virtual channel count, radar transceiver semiconductor technology, radar operating frequency, and low-loss material for automotive radar.

This report characterizes the electric vehicle market across 11 vehicle sectors with historic market data from 2010-2024 and market forecasts up to 2045. Battery demand and market value across all 11 sectors reveals significant opportunity for growth and investment, especially beyond the typical automotive sector.

This report examines the high-performance computing (HPC) and AI hardware markets. Covering 7 key areas of componentry from AI chips to thermal management, including granular market forecasts from 2025-2035 and featuring over 50 profiles of HPC industry players, this report provides indispensable insight into this fast-growing industry. It reveals huge opportunity, with the HPC hardware market forecast to exceed US$580 billion by 2035, driven by growing AI deployment.

Giving EV batteries a second life maximizes their value, extends their lifetime before recycling, and contributes to a circular battery economy. This IDTechEx report provides forecasts and analyses on second-life EV battery repurposers and business models, automotive OEM activity and partnerships, end-of-life (EOL) battery diagnostics players, key markets, repurposing costs and automation, B2B marketplaces, regulations, EV battery technology trends, and techno-economic analysis vs first-life Li-ion battery energy storage systems (BESS).

In-Mold Electronics (IME) 2025-2035 assesses the technology and market opportunities associated with this emerging manufacturing methodology. Drawing on over 25 company profiles, this report evaluates the technical processes, material requirements, applications, and competing methodologies associated with IME such as functional film bonding. It includes 10-year market forecasts by application sector, expressed as both revenue and IME panel area. This IDTechEx report, the fourth edition in six years, is based on interviews with companies which are conducted by technical IDTechEx analysts. This gives real insight and clarity into what is actually happening in the sector.

This report provides market and technical analysis for electric trucks, both medium-duty and heavy-duty. It uses historic data to forecast future trends, tracking key technologies such as motors, batteries, and charging infrastructure, as well as market information, to forecast the truck market in unit sales, US$, battery demand in GWh, and fuel cell demand in MW.

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the silicon anode market. The report analyses material and technology solutions, market and player developments, and the cost impact of silicon anodes, provides a silicon anode production outlook, and forecasts demand by material type (low, medium, high silicon), application, and region.

Wearable sensors are fundamental to continuous monitoring of health, fitness, and wellness - as well as at the core of innovations for next generation human machine interface, industrial IoT and extended reality. As applications for wearable technology grow, there are increasing opportunities for sensors that can detect more advanced metrics, be integrated into novel form-factors, offer enhanced performance or demand less power and space. Based on a decade of market research on wearable technology hardware, this report analyses the technological and commercial landscape of this growing industry, both today and into the future. The Wearable Sensors Market 2025-2035 report provides insight into how this technology could be integrated into society long term, and forecasts the wearable sensors market to reach US$7.2 billion by 2035.

This report characterizes cement decarbonization technologies, markets, and players. With coverage across 40 different cement decarbonization solutions, spanning over 200 companies, and market forecasts from 2024 to 2035, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this topic area. It reveals the most promising cement decarbonization technologies for investment and development over the coming decade. In total, cement decarbonization solutions will avoid a further 422 megatonnes of CO2 emissions by 2035.

This report provides key insights into five different application areas for artificial intelligence in the battery industry, including discussion of technologies, supply-chain disruption and player innovations. Market forecasts cover the next decade with both quantitative and qualitative analysis. It is the most comprehensive overview for machine learning applications in the battery industry and reveals the potential for significant disruption and acceleration of battery development, manufacturing and usage.

This report provides critical analysis of the ever-growing electric light commercial vehicle (eLCV) industry. IDTechEx has assembled the most comprehensive database of battery-electric, plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell LCVs available, to reveal trends in market size and sales, battery technology, vehicle performance, and more. Granular 20-year forecasts demonstrate how the market will grow to over 11 million eLCV sales annually by 2045.

Thanks to the low capital barrier, easy programming, and increasing human-machine collaboration, collaborative robots are becoming increasingly popular. This report provides a comprehensive analysis of significant applications of collaborative robots by end industries, including automotive manufacturing, semiconductor, EV battery recycling, food and beverage, electronics, healthcare and hospitality, semiconductor and end tasks including picking and placing, machine tending, palletizing, packaging, inspection, and material handling. The report covers critical technologies, component-level analysis, recent market news and trends, pricing and pain points, market analysis, and 20-year granular market forecasts by regions, end industries, and tasks. In addition, the report provides an understanding of the market dynamics, competitive landscape, market outlook, and promising applications.

IDTechEx's Autonomous Vehicles Market report provides holistic coverage of the automotive industry and robotaxi sector from an autonomous driving technology perspective. The report gives deep insight into the technologies available from leading private vehicle OEMs and the state of commercial robotaxi development and deployment. The report is complete with a 20-year forecast of the automotive industry separated by region and SAE level, forecasted in US$ and annual unit sales.

This comprehensive report draws on IDTechEx's extensive knowledge and experience in the field, offering valuable insights into materials and processing techniques used in advanced semiconductor packaging. It covers crucial technology trends, including the 2.5D packaging process flow and the innovative Cu-Cu hybrid bonding technology for 3D packaging. Additionally, the report provides a 10-year market forecast for the Organic Dielectric Advanced Semiconductor Packaging Module, presenting projections for unit and area metrics.

This report characterizes the electric car markets, technologies, and players. The latest sales data and policy landscapes give context to the current status of the EV market globally. Historic market data from 2011- H1 2024, with market forecasts up to 2045. This report also assesses the latest technology trends and developments across the big 3 for EVs, li-ion batteries, motors, and power electronics. This report offers in-depth, global, comprehensive research on the electric car market, which is the largest single component of the transportation sector.

IDTechEx's "Advanced Semiconductor Packaging 2025-2035" report delves into the evolving semiconductor packaging landscape, with a focus on 2.5D and 3D packaging technologies. It examines current technology trends, industry challenges, and the advancements of key players, while also forecasting future market trends. Utilizing IDTechEx's expertise in AI, data centers, autonomous vehicles, 5G, and consumer electronics, the report provides a thorough understanding of how advanced semiconductor packaging is influencing these sectors, offering valuable insights into the industry's future trajectory.

This report explores the transformative impact of chiplet technology on semiconductor design, driven by the need for flexibility and cost-effectiveness as Moore's Law slows. It highlights advancements by relevant players in the supply chain, addressing challenges such as integration, interconnect & communication, and thermal management. The report provides a 10-year market forecast, projecting growth to US$411 billion by 2035, with applications in servers, telecommunications, PCs, mobile phones, and automotive industries. It offers insights into key technologies, market trends, and supply chain dynamics, making it an essential resource for understanding the evolving chiplet landscape.

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.

This report provides in-depth assessment of the stationary fuel cell market, the technologies and players. Analysis of the six key fuel cell types, segmentation by the five major application areas and historic data from 2016-2024, is used to comprehensively review the entire market and provide a detailed outlook. Granular market forecasts, with 39 separate forecasting lines, outline the growth of the global stationary fuel cell market, set to exceed a value of US$8 billion by 2035.

The rapidly growing electric vehicle market creates a huge demand for the supporting charging infrastructure across several regions and different power classes. Within this market, we are seeing trends around high-power charging, wireless charging, battery swapping, and V2X. This report addresses these trends within the markets for battery-electric or hybrid cars, vans, trucks and buses with OEM hardware benchmarking, CPO comparisons, and 10-year granular market forecasts.

This report characterizes the haptics market, technologies and players. Highly granular 10-year forecasts in volume and revenue provide breakdowns including 7 key application areas and 6 overall classes of actuator with further subcategories. Historic data from 2013 to 2023 is also included, as well as over 30 company profiles. Detailed overview of technologies from dominant actuators like LRAs (Linear Resonant Actuators) and ERM (Eccentric Rotating Mass) motors to more emerging options including VCMs (voice coil motors) and piezoelectric actuators is included, as are more emerging options including VCMs (voice coil motors) and piezoelectric actuators. Evolving opportunities are outlined, with a US$7.1B market value forecast by 2035.

This report takes a comprehensive look at the prospects of hydrogen and battery electric technologies for a range of airplane applications including general aviation, business jets and commercial airliners. For each one it evaluates how well hydrogen and battery technologies can meet the aircrafts duty-cycles, how they might impact total cost of ownership, and how carbon footprint is impacted, give different grids and different hydrogen sources. This culminates in a forecast for hydrogen and battery electric airplanes over until 2045. This report is ideal for understanding the challenges, prospects, companies, and strategies involved in the future of aviation.

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 assesses the hydrogen internal combustion engine, both from a technical and an economic standpoint. Coverage across key transportation applications sectors, analysis of historic and contemporary H2ICE projects, and market forecasts from 2025 to 2045, this comprehensive study offers a realistic and data-driven assessment of H2ICE. It reveals significant opportunity, with a market of US$7 billion by 2045.

This report characterizes the automotive infrared camera markets, technologies, and players. Coverage on NIR cameras, ToF cameras, SWIR cameras, and LWIR cameras. Using historic data from 2020-2023 to forecast from 2025 to 2035. This reveals the market opportunities and applications of IR camera technologies in in-cabin sensing and ADAS, forecast to grow to almost US$5 billion by 2035.

"Carbon Dioxide Utilization 2025-2045: Technologies, Market Forecasts, and Players" provides a comprehensive outlook of the global CO₂ utilization industry, with an in-depth analysis of the technological, economic, and environmental aspects that are set to shape this emerging market over the next twenty years. The report also includes a twenty-year granular forecast for the deployment of 11 CO₂U product categories, alongside 40+ interview-based company profiles.

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 the brain computer interface market, technologies, and players. This includes coverage across non-invasive and invasive technologies, comparisons across key technical benchmarks, and market forecasts from 2025 to 2045. This research includes 20 company profiles including coverage of Neuralink and Blackrock Neurotech. This report leverages IDTechEx's wealth of insights into healthcare and consumer electronics markets. There is an analysis of the opportunities within assistive technology markets, as well as the broader wearable technology markets, specifically the augmented and virtual reality headset market. This report reveals an evolving opportunity for both non-invasive and invasive technologies across the next twenty years, with the overall brain computer interface market forecast to grow to over US$1.6bn by 2045.

This report provides key analysis of the trends in electric construction machines. Analysis of over 200 machines provides insight on the key technologies, total costs of ownership, battery sizing, vehicle performance, pricing, and more. Independent forecasts for sales reveal the electric construction machine market will grow to US$126 billion in 2044, highlighting the role electrification will play in the future of the construction industry.

Demand for Li-ion battery storage will continue to increase over the coming decade to facilitate increasing renewable energy penetration and afford homeowners with greater energy independence. This IDTechEx report provides forecasts and analyses on Li-ion BESS players, project pipelines, supply and strategic agreements, residential and grid-scale markets, technology trends and benchmarking, battery storage safety and thermal management, applications, revenue generation, and regional schemes, incentives and targets for BESS.

This report characterizes the Roboshuttles and Autonomous Buses markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across several players in 15 countries provides a detailed analysis of the players and activities. Contextualized through historical sales data dating back to 2019, with regional granularity across China, Europe, the USA, and the rest of the World (RoW), and coverage market forecasts from 2024 to 2044. It reveals significant opportunity, with the Roboshuttles and Autonomous Buses markets forecast to grow to over US$67bn by 2044.

This report characterizes the flexible batteries markets, technologies, and players. With coverage across 13 application markets and 6 core battery technologies, and market forecasts from 2025 to 2035, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this product area. It reveals increasing development and opportunities, with the flexible battery market to grow to over US$500 million by 2035.

This report characterizes the Autonomous Trucks markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across more than 10 players in different countries, provides a detailed analysis of the players and activities. Contextualized through historical sales data dating back to 2019, with regional granularity across China, Europe, the USA, and the rest of the World (RoW), and coverage market forecasts from 2024 to 2044, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this product area. It reveals significant opportunity, with the Autonomous Trucks markets forecast to grow to over US$120bn by 2044.

The report assesses the market for eight different conductive ink types across 15 applications. Based on primary research and interviews with over 30 companies, it outlines technical developments and benchmarks ink properties across flake-based silver, nanoparticle-based silver, copper, stretchable/thermoformable, particle-free conductive inks and more. Application opportunities are evaluated, and their associated conductive ink requirements, including photovoltaics, multiple types of printed sensors, hybrid and in-mold electronics, and RFID/smart packaging.

This report provides market and technical analysis for electric buses. This includes historic performance, market progress, technology, players, and market forecasts by drivetrain. This report includes market shares by OEM across key regions

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.

The chemical recycling of plastics attracts both notable critics and supporters; this is not a silver bullet to the sustainability issue facing all stakeholders in the plastic value chain but equally, it will play a not insignificant role in the pursuit of a circular economy. This market report provides an independent assessment on the field, including pyrolysis, depolymerization, gasification, and dissolution processes. 10-year market forecasts provide a crucial unbiased outlook.

This report provides key insights into the battery markets for electric construction, agriculture, and mining (CAM) vehicles. Analysis of over 200 products from turnkey battery suppliers and 200 CAM EVs offers understanding of vehicle requirements, suppliers' core technologies, and the suitability of battery technologies for electric CAM machines. The report considers 10 battery technologies including; LTO, sodium-ion, lithium-metal and more, evaluating how they meet the needs of 15 vehicle types. Included are granular 10-year forecasts for GWh battery demand and revenue (US$) by region, industry, and chemistry.

This report characterizes the entire quantum technology market, identifies key trends, and provides an overview of the major players. Coverage across three key sectors including quantum computing, quantum sensing, and quantum communications is included, alongside market forecasts from 2024 to 2034 and over 50 company profiles. This comprehensive study provides clarity on the complexities of this rich and fast-moving industry, revealing significant opportunity, with the quantum technology market forecast to grow at a CAGR of 25% in the next ten years. IDTechEx has over 25 years of experience covering emerging technology markets, and is uniquely placed to analyze the interplay of related trends in the automotive, semiconductor, photonics, advanced materials, and sensor technology industries with the quantum technology market.

This IDTechEx report assesses the competing technologies that will enable PCBs to be replaced with integrated electronics. It covers technologies, materials and applications of electronics added to 3D surfaces (LDS, aerosol, valve jet/dispensing, LIFT and emerging techniques), in-mold electronics (IME), and fully printed 3D electronics. Also included are 29 market forecasts lines, over 40 company profiles, readiness level assessments, and identification of technological challenges/opportunities, thus providing a clear picture of the emerging 3D / additive electronics landscape.

25% of global energy pollution comes from industrial heat production. However, emerging thermal energy storage (TES) technologies, using low-cost and abundant materials like molten salt, concrete and refractory brick are being commercialized, offering decarbonized heat for industrial processes. State-level funding and increased natural gas prices in key regions will drive TES market growth in industry. This IDTechEx report provides forecasts, and analyses on TES technologies, players, projects, and government initiatives.

The report delves into the thermal management strategies employed in electric vehicle (EV) power electronics. It encompasses various aspects such as the thermal architecture within EV power semiconductor packaging, the materials (e.g., solder, silver sinter, copper sinter, etc.) utilized for die and substrate attachment, thermal interface materials, as well as cooling methods involving air, water, and oil. A thorough technological examination of die attach, substrate attach, and thermal interface materials (TIMs) utilized in SiC MOSFETs, Si IGBTs, and GaN technologies. It also provides market forecasts for TIMs in the EV power industry categorized by technology (Si, SiC, GaN) and component (Inverter, Onboard Charger, and DC-DC Converter). A number of commercial use cases are included in the report. With historical market data spanning from 2021 to 2023 and future projections extending from 2024 to 2034, this study offers a comprehensive understanding of thermal management in the EV power electronics sector. It underscores significant growth prospects, with the total market value of TIMs anticipated to surpass US$900 million by 2034.

IDTechEx's "Air Taxis: Electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) Aircraft 2024-2044: Technologies, Players" report is designed to help companies understand the emerging urban air mobility market. Providing comprehensive analysis of eVTOL air taxis, from an assessment of the pros and cons of eVTOL aircraft design architectures, through to OEM players and opportunities in key enabling technologies. The report presents our TCO analysis of eVTOL operations and IDTechEx's independent 20-year forecasts for this transformative new market with considerable long-term potential.

This report assesses and analyzes key technologies, players and use-cases for off-grid EV charging. Solar Canopy charging, hydrogen generator charging, airborne wind energy charging as well as LNG/propane EV charging are explored in depth, with cost and emissions comparisons. It reveals significant opportunity in the context of grid expansion delays, with the off-grid hardware market set to reach US$16.6 billion by 2034.

The lidar market for automotive application will grow to $9.5 billion by 2034. The demand for lidars to be adopted in the automotive industry drives the huge investment and rapid progression of lidars, with the innovations in beam steering technologies and performance improvement & cost reduction in lidar transceiver components. These efforts can enable lidars to be implemented in a wider application scenario beyond conventional usage and automobiles. IDTechEx leverages its experiences such as in laser physics, semiconductor, optics, sensors, optoelectronics, and transportation, to provide a comprehensive analysis on technologies, products, current status and future trend. 10-year market forecasts on lidar units and market value with a focus on automotives have been provided. IDTechEx also provides a spread sheet of a selection of existing and near-future lidar adoptions in the automotive sector.

'Electric Vehicles in Mining 2024-2044' provides key insights into the trends driving the electric mining vehicle industry. This report analyzes over 70 electric mining vehicles to provide understanding of total costs of ownership, performance, battery sizing, and chemistries over a wide range of vehicle types - with 20-year market forecasts segmented by vehicle type and region.

This report characterizes the markets, technologies, and players in printed and flexible sensors. Exploring the latest technical innovations across eight printed sensor technology areas with numerous application case studies for each technology. Both established and emerging markets are evaluated, including ten-year printed sensor market forecasts from 2024 to 2034. It reveals significant opportunity, with the printed and flexible sensor market forecast to grow to over US$960M by 2034.

Water electrolyzer systems for green hydrogen production are seeing continued technological innovation and improvement, with significant efforts and funding pouring into development of green hydrogen projects worldwide. IDTechEx is continuing its research into the green hydrogen space with this update of the Green Hydrogen Production: Electrolyzer Markets report released in 2023. This 2024 version provides more in-depth analysis of the four main technologies (AWE, PEMEL, AEMEL & SOEC), including more detailed information on operating principles, system performance characteristics, materials & components, balance of plant requirements (BOP), system case studies as well as key advantages and limitations of technologies. IDTechEx significantly expanded the electrolyzer system & stack supplier lists and system specifications across all four technologies. Project case studies, analysis of business models, and more nuanced considerations for the cost of green hydrogen production have been added. A database of electrolyzer suppliers, commercial systems specifications and planned electrolyzer manufacturing installations is provided with this report.

The report provides a comprehensive overview of the automotive display technology landscape, covering various types of displays and emerging trends. It delves into industry insights obtained from interviews and conferences, offering a SWOT analysis of key technologies. Additionally, it explores advancements beyond displays, including manufacturing requirements and component adaptations like windshield coatings. A 10-year market forecast is presented, encompassing diverse display types and technologies across global regions. Detailed evaluations of each technology's technical and commercial feasibility are provided. The report concludes with extensive company profiles, highlighting key technologies and product lines gleaned from interviews.

IDTechEx's brand new report, "Antenna in Package (AiP) for 5G and 6G 2024-2034: Technologies, Trends, Markets," delves into AiP technologies for 5G mmWave and 6G, focusing on various substrate types and packaging methods. It also explores antenna integration for beyond 100 GHz applications, showcasing case studies and addressing challenges. Drawing on IDTechEx's expertise, the report offers valuable insights into the evolving landscape of antenna packaging for future generations of wireless technology.

This report serves as both a primer into the field of digital health, summarizing the findings across telehealth/telemedicine, remote patient monitoring (including diabetes management technologies), digital therapeutics, consumer health wearables, and AI in medical imaging diagnostics. The report provides profiles of over 135 companies active in the field, a detailed 10-year forecast of over 19 types of RPM technologies, and a 40-year outlook on the uptake of AI in imaging diagnostics across 13 therapeutic areas.

This report provides critical market intelligence about quantum communication technology. This includes an overview of the emerging quantum computing to data security and solutions offered by quantum random number generators (QRNG) and quantum key distribution (QKD). There is global coverage of trends in the quantum communication market, including comparison with post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This comprehensive study includes over 25 company profiles, and market forecasts for 2024-2034. The quantum communications market is predicted to grow significantly, with a CAGR of 28%.

Demand for long duration energy storage (LDES) technologies will increase in the 2030s to facilitate increasing variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration. Key technologies being developed for LDES, offering lower capital costs ($/kWh) than Li-ion at longer durations of storage, will be needed for supporting increased VRE penetration. This IDTechEx report provides, forecasts, and analyses on LDES technologies, players, projects, applications, revenue generation, grid flexibility, and VRE deployments.

3D printing is a dynamic industry composed of a multi-faced ecosystem essential to mass market adoption, including hardware, materials, services, post-processing, and more. This report will examine the status of 3D printing technologies and materials, identify emerging trends, analyze the current market, and provide detailed market forecasts for 3D printing hardware and materials. This report supplies key insights and essential knowledge across the 3D printing value chain.

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.

Autonomous driving and electrification are changing the automotive industry irrevocably. In addition to these megatrends, connected and software defined vehicles have recently shown opportunity for new and lucrative revenue streams, while in-cabin sensing is set to evolve automotive safety through new hardware based applications. This report provides a high level overview of all these new automotive technologies and forecasts a US$1.6 trillion opportunity in 2034. Learn which of these provides the greatest potential and whether services or hardware will dominate the market.

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.

This report provides a detailed technological analysis with available options and emerging possibilities across the whole manufacturing process, from epitaxy, chip manufacturing, mass transfer, assembly and integration, bonding and interconnection, testing, defect management, repair, light management, full colour realization, to backplane and driving. By addressing the challenges and opportunities, together with the supply chain evaluation, market status assessment & prediction, and player activity analysis, it helps the readers to make better strategic decisions, to find best technological road map, to seek commercialization and new business opportunities, to know reliable partners, to track the activities of key players and to get the latest industry progress, assisting strategic decisions.

The market for emerging image sensors technologies includes hybrid image sensors, event-based vision, large-area solution-processable photodetectors, flexible x-ray detectors, hyperspectral imaging, and extended range silicon detectors, which should both reduce costs and enable adoption within new applications. The report outlines the emerging image sensor landscape, providing an extensive technical and commercial assessment along with market forecasts. It contains over 40 forecast lines and 25 company profiles.

IDTechEx has been covering the broad topic of sensor technology since 2008. We have interviewed a wide range of the major players in the gas sensor market over the years, attended multiple conferences, and delivered consulting projects and workshops on this topic. This dedicated environmental gas sensor report evaluates the performance of ten technologies in detail - comparing their essential characteristics and compatibility to five application areas. This includes analysis of opportunities within smart buildings, smart cities, and smart homes. It includes over 30 company profiles from interviews with major manufacturers and start-ups specializing in various technologies.

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 analyzes the mobile robotics market, technologies, funding, and players. Coverage across 15 robots across 4 major applications. Historic market data from 2019-2022 and 20 year market forecasts. It reveals significant opportunity, with the yearly mobile robotics market forecast to grow to around US$150 billion by 2044.

Automotive displays are evolving at a pace never seen before. With the rise in autonomous driving, displays will play a central role in the interaction between the passengers and the vehicle. This report covers novel types of displays as well as key technologies enabling this futuristic experience. The changes in display design, and a holistic view of what makes a display - from the cover glass to the adhesives and driver ICs - are also considered in this report.

This report analyses the trends and developments to Li-ion cell and battery pack technology for electric vehicles by studying developments from both automotive OEMs and battery pack manufacturers serving non-car markets. Players and developments in battery management systems are also covered. Demand for Li-ion batteries is forecasted for electric cars, vans, trucks, 2-wheelers, buses.

This report characterizes the display industry for virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) devices, analyzing markets, technologies and players. It provides in-depth coverage of seven individual display technologies and forecasts their uptake in spatial computing from 2024 to 2034, alongside ten-year forecasts and historic data from 2010 onwards for the entire VR/AR/MR headset market. It outlines growing opportunity, with the VR/AR/MR display market forecast to grow to US$4.6B by 2034.

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.

'Flexible Hybrid Electronics 2024-2034' evaluates the status and prospects of this emerging manufacturing methodology, which aims to combine the best aspects of printed and conventional electronics. Often described as 'print what you can, place what you can't', flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) brings the benefits of digital additive electronics manufacturing without compromising on the processing capabilities of integrated circuits. Drawing on years of following the printed electronics industry and 40 interviews, the report outlines trends and innovations in the materials, components, and manufacturing methods required to produce FHE circuits.

The IDTechEx report 'Electric Boats & Ships 2024-2044' reveals the challenges and growth for electrification in the maritime sector. It finds that recreational boats are the largest market by volume, but the hybrid deep-sea sector will generate the most battery demand in MWh due to large battery system capacities/vessel and strong emissions policy drivers from the IMO and EU. The report provides granular 20-year forecasts in unit sales, battery demand (GWh) & battery market value (US$ bn) for electric ferry, electric cargo/container, electric Ro-Ro, electric cruise, electric OSV, electric tugboat, electric recreational boats by powerclass (<1kW, <12kW, >25kW), and shares technology analysis and price information on marine Li-ion battery systems & electric propulsion systems based on supplier interviews.

In this report IDTechEx assesses the global opportunities emerging across the entire hydrogen value chain, including low-carbon hydrogen production, storage, distribution, fuel cells and hydrogen end-use sectors. It includes technological analyses of all relevant technologies, techno-economic comparisons, detail on key commercial activities (including projects as well as established and emerging companies), major innovations, and major market trends across all value chain components. The report also provides granular 10-year forecasts for hydrogen demand by applications in Mtpa (7 sectors), hydrogen production capacity by source in Mtpa (grey, blue and green) and the hydrogen market in US$B (grey, blue and green).

'Printed/Flexible Electronics 2023-2033: Technologies, Markets, Forecasts' explores and evaluates the trends and innovations across this emerging approach to electronics. By summarizing IDTechEx's extensive printed/flexible electronics report portfolio, and drawing on years of following this developing industry, the report outlines innovations, opportunities, and trends for printed/flexible electronics across 5 sectors: automotive, consumer goods, energy, healthcare/wellness, and infrastructure/buildings/industrial. This analysis includes granular forecasts of 50 distinct applications.

This report covers the antimicrobial technology market, including analysis of four key antimicrobial technologies: silver, copper, zinc and silane quaternary compounds. Antimicrobial technologies provide residual protection against microbes. The report examines how the technologies work, key considerations for companies seeking to develop products, and analyzes over 100 companies active in this area.

IDTechEx's comprehensive new report analyzes the SMR market, technologies, and key players. It includes historic data on the nuclear industry since the 1980s and provides detailed regional market forecasts from 2023-2043. The report also includes data-driven benchmarking of 10 reactor technologies. With the potential for rapid growth, SMRs are predicted to supply 2% of the world's electricity in 2043.

Smart packaging promises the integration of electronic functionality into everyday products, enabling condition monitoring, asset tracking, consumer engagement, and more. IDTechEx's report provides an in-depth technology and market evaluation of this emerging industry, drawing on over 20 interviews with industry players including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) players. Based on impartial analysis, IDTechEx concludes that the global demand for electronic smart packaging will reach a value of US$2.6 billion in 2033 based on the value of the electronics hardware in packaging - much more if the infrastructure, software, and services are also included.

In this report IDTechEx assesses the global opportunities emerging for battery-electric (BEV) and hydrogen fuel cell (FC) trains as energy storage technologies advance rapidly. Granular 20-year forecasts include train deliveries, battery demand (GWh), fuel cell demand (MW) and market value (US$ billion) across locomotive (BEL, FEL), multiple unit (BMU, FMU), and shunter trains. The cost evolution of railroad batteries, FCs and green hydrogen is also explored to assess long-term feasibility.

Sustainable packaging solutions see increased market adoption as market pressures accelerates. This report comprehensively reviews and analyzes over thirty circular packaging materials, including mechanically recycled plastics, chemically recycled plastics, and bioplastics. Key analysis on sustainable packaging market activity, including investments and partnerships, contextualizes the sustainable packaging landscape for readers. With 21 different 10-year forecast lines for sustainable packaging materials, this report will establish this field's current status and outline its future direction towards circularity.

This report is the culmination of IDTechEx's market and technology research in wearable technology over the past decade. It contains high level overviews and data of the major themes, product trends and drivers across all wearables sectors; as well as all of the collated conclusions and market data across sectors including smartwatches & fitness trackers, VR, AR & MR, hearables, smart clothing & e-textiles, electronic skin patches, and many other product types.

This report assesses the market for e-textiles across key application areas of biometric monitoring, textile heating, and textile lighting, among others. It considers the value added by e-textiles in sectors such as healthcare, medical, wellness, and fitness. Manufacturing methods for e-textiles through conductive fibers and conductive inks are detailed and evaluated.

This report provides holistic and deep coverage of semiconductor usage for a new era of vehicles. Understand the key trends within enabling technologies such as radar, LiDAR, cameras, inverters, battery management systems, MCUs and SOCs and how they impact future semiconductor demand. The report's granular 10-year forecasts include semiconductor wafer demand, semiconductor material demand including Si, SiC, GaN, InGaAs and more, as well as revenue through wafer production in US$.

Manufacturing Printed Electronics 2023-2033 explores the developments, transitions, and technological innovations within the printed electronics equipment market. Drawing on interviews and interactions with over 30 companies, we assess the attributes, readiness level, use cases and market demand for 20 analogue/digital printing and component attachment technologies applicable to printed electronics, ranging from conventional screen printing to laser induced forward transfer and photonic soldering.

This report provides an in-depth technology and market evaluation of the cultured meat industry based on extensive research and interviews with market players. The report discusses the technology underlying cultured meat, the state of the industry, regulation, consumer preferences, and evaluates key players in the industry. The report also provides 10 and 20-year forecasts of the cultured meat industry, predicting that the market will be worth US$13.7 billion by 2043.

A robot, as a machine with autonomy, requires a suite of sensors. This report provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art sensing technologies for robots and emerging trends. The report provides granular annual volume and market size forecasts of different sensors by 29 different robots/applications and sensor types, giving a strong understanding of which sensors and robot applications are seeing the fastest increase in the next 20 years.

Fuel cells (FC) show great promise for maritime transport due to high efficiencies and potential for zero-emissions operation using green fuels. 'Fuel Cell Boats & Ships 2023-2033: PEMFC, SOFC, Hydrogen, Ammonia, LNG' reviews the latest FC technologies and materials, revealing that green hydrogen PEMFC and ammonia SOFC markets will grow rapidly at 35% CAGR. Bottom-up forecasts utilize primary research from OEM & supplier interviews detailing the latest pipelines.

This report characterizes the electronic skin patches markets, technologies, and players. Coverage across 13 electronic skin patch application areas, historic market data from 2010-2022 and market forecasts from 2023 to 2033, it is the most comprehensive study compiled for this product area. It reveals significant opportunity, with the electronic skin patch market forecast to grow to over $27bn by 2033.

Efficient, automatic wireless charging of electric vehicles aims to revolutionise the EV charging experience. This technology can be used in static and dynamic applications, across various vehicle segments offering an opportunity for various auto OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers. A ground-based transmitting pad, a vehicle-based receiving pad, and power cabinets are the enabling system components. This report covers the componentry, player profiles, commercial deployments, global standards, and granular forecasts.

IDTechEx has been studying 5G-related topics for many years and we have just released our latest version of the 5G market research report "5G Market 2023-2033: Technology, Trends, Forecasts, Players". This report is built on IDTechEx expertise, covering the latest 5G development trend, key player analysis, and market outlook. Key aspects in this report include mmWave technologies trend, open radio access network (Open RAN) development, power management of 5G base stations, heterogeneous smart electromagnetic (EM) environment, detailed regional analysis of 5G status and future roadmap in 5 key regions: U.S., China, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and 5G applications (Industry 4.0, C-V2X, AR/VR, FWA etc) development status.

Though best known for low-volume, low-cost part production, polymer 3D printing is expanding beyond prototyping and one-offs to penetrate higher value applications, reaching $21 billion in market size by 2033. This is supported by innovation in polymer printing technologies that expand access to a better-performing polymer materials portfolio. Players interested and active in polymer 3D printing would benefit from IDTechEx's technology and market analysis to stay ahead of the competition.

Remote patient monitoring (RPM), the use of technology to measure and transmit physiologic data beyond traditional healthcare settings, has risen in prominence since the COVID-19 pandemic. In this report IDTechEx covers connected medical devices such as blood pressure cuffs, ambulatory cardiac monitors, and continuous glucose monitors in RPM applications in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory, and general health and wellness. Ten-year market forecasts to 2033 cover 19 product categories.

Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality devices promise to revolutionize the way we interact, acting as key gateways to the metaverse. This report builds a picture of these technologies today, quantitively examining development trends to date and outlining both future directions and technical challenges. The changing role of computing and connectivity is discussed, with component technologies including optics, displays, sensing, and haptics analyzed.

This report covers the DNA sequencing industry, discussing the key technologies and markets involved. The report covers Sanger, Next-Generation (NGS), and nanopore sequencing, benchmarking these against each other on key metrics required by leading applications. The report includes in-depth analyses of DNA sequencing applications ranging from population genomics and companion diagnostics to forensics, identifying the requirements for each. Barriers of entry to the market and relevant challenges are analysed.