Advanced Materials

This premium article delves into the LOPEC 2022 event, held from 22nd-24th March, which IDTechEx attended in-person. It will focus on materials, with an analysis of the most interesting and commercially relevant companies in the fields of copper-based conductive inks, transparent conductors, other conductive inks, and non-conductive materials.

Alphacore is a US-based company focusing on analog, mixed signal, and radio frequency products, imaging solutions, radiation-hardened technologies, and emerging technology.

Evolv Technology are a physical security company developing AI-based touchless security screening systems for retail and hospitality sectors.

Radi-Cool are a US-based company developing scalable manufactured metamaterials that cool objects.

Mars Materials is an American start-up developing a new pathway for carbon fibers production and wastewater treatment chemicals using carbon dioxide as a raw material. In November 2021, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Dr Hydra Rodrigues spoke to Aaron Fitzgerald, CEO and Co-Founder of Mars Materials.

A team of researchers has leveraged quantum mechanics to optimize the active layer within a device known as an inverted perovskite solar cell - a technology that could one day result in mass-market solar cells that a fraction of those currently on the market.

Twelve — formerly Opus 12 — is a start-up based in Berkeley, California, developing methods for electrocatalytic conversion of carbon dioxide into chemical inputs.

Saralon is a German supplier of a wide range of conductive and functional inks. IDTechEx spoke to the company at LOPEC 2022 to catch up with the latest developments.

Copprint is an Israeli manufacturer of nanoparticle-based copper ink. At LOPEC 2022, the company demonstrated a wide range of applications for its inks.

VSParticle is an early-stage Dutch company that has developed a method of producing and depositing pure metal nanoparticles by spark ablation. This has multiple applications including gas sensors and catalysts. IDTechEx caught up with VSParticle at LOPEC 2022.

Thursday 21 April 2022 - Entering the Next Stage in Their Commercial Journey. This webinar will give a comprehensive overview of the carbon nanotube industry including: 10-year market outlook for CNTs; deep dive into the energy storage market; assessment of other key applications; and more.

Staying ahead of thermal management requirements for increasingly challenging datacom, telecom and industrial automation applications, Henkel today announced the commercialization of its latest gel thermal interface material (TIM), BERGQUIST® LIQUI FORM TLF 10000.

Presentation provided by Thermexit, a Nanoramic Labs Technology.

Jet Metal is an established spray metallization company that has developed a method for patterning conductive traces on 3D surfaces. IDTechEx caught up with Jet Metal at the LOPEC 2022 conference.

A study takes a fresh look at what could become the first step toward a new generation of solar batteries. The study examines the structure of metal halide perovskites, materials promising for their ability to turn light into electric energy, known as photovoltaic conversion.

Graphene has aroused great interest in the research circle and stimulates innovation in a wide range of fields for excellent performance. With similar properties to graphene, graphene-like materials have now been theoretically or practically explored.

Thursday 7 April 2022 - This webinar includes discussion of the various approaches of manufacturing 3D electronics, their differentiating factors, readiness level, and the applications to which they are best suited; Case studies showing how 3D electronics can be used in many different applications; and much more.

Bio-FETs are biosensor transducers that utilize transistors for biological applications, such as rapid medical diagnostic tests. They have emerged as a label-free technology to rival incumbent, labelled transduction methods. In this premium article, IDTechEx explores the players developing bio-FET technologies, discusses the use of graphene and carbon nanotubes as semiconductor materials in bio-FETs, and identifies the advantages and constraints to bio-FETs in rapid diagnostics.

The current state of 5G has seen less technological innovation than might have initially been expected. There is certainly more scope for technical development and hence opportunities for several technologies and materials, a critical one of which is the semiconductor technology with wide bandgap semiconductors.

Presentation given by IDTechEx analyst Sam Dale at InnoLAE 2022.