Advanced Materials

This premium article discusses advances in MRI technology to reduce helium dependence.

Generon is a vertically integrated company that develops, designs, manufactures, and services equipment for process gas compression, separation, and purification. It manufactures hollow fiber membrane modules and adsorption technologies that complement its membrane module products for helium recovery from natural gas.

This premium article explores catalysts for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells.

LyondellBasell is a global player in the chemical and polymer industries with headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and Houston, Texas. The company has a significant presence in the bioplastics sector, leveraging its experience in plastics manufacturing.

Thermal interface materials (TIMs) are composed of thermal fillers and matrix materials. Thermal fillers are highly thermally conductive substances, while matrix materials are typically used to enhance mechanical properties.

Ube Materials Industries is a Japanese chemical company, with expertise in calcia and magnesia products. This profile is focused on the MOS-HIGE product - a lightweight material made from fibrous magnesium oxysulfate.

ASML is a Dutch company founded in 1984 that specializes in lithography equipment for the semiconductor industry. It is also developing neon reclamation technologies to lower the neon consumption of its laser systems.

Trinseo, a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics, latex binders, and synthetic rubber, was established in 2010 following a carve-out from Dow Chemical Company. The company produces a range of bioplastics including thermoplastic polyolefins and ABS.

NobleAI is a Bay Area-headquartered provider of AI/ML solutions for science, primarily servicing the materials/chemical and energy industries. It provides ensemble "Science-Based AI" models, which are customized for each use-case, through its SaaS platform.

Owing to their exceptional design flexibility, structural versatility, and high porosity, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are gathering interest for a wide range of applications, such as water harvesting for HVAC, direct lithium extraction, refrigerant reclamation, hydrogen storage, chemical purifications, and many more.

NatureWorks, established in 1989, has positioned itself as a major player in the bioplastics industry, an industry aiming to replace fossil-based plastics. The company is based in Plymouth, Minnesota, USA. The parent companies are Cargill and PTT Global Chemical. The company's major product is its Ingeo™ biopolymer, a polylactic acid (PLA) product derived from renewable plant resources.

US-based Intel launched Intel Foundry as its systems foundry business, targeted towards AI technologies, in February 2024.

Innovation map for application of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in chemical separations and purifications.

Innovation map of MOF-based carbon capture technologies.

Great Eastern Resins Industrial Co., Ltd. (GRECO), founded in 1955 and headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is a leading player in the chemical manufacturing industry, specializing in synthetic resins and adhesives. Its bioplastic product is a biobased TPU.

Cincinnati Test Systems (CTS) is a US-based leak-testing solutions provider that is headquartered in Ohio.

MaterialsZone describes itself as "the Lean R&D solution", offering a SaaS suite of tools to manage and utilize data across the lab, from the development to the production stage. These include machine learning and visualization tools to speed up development of new materials. The company's HQ is in Tel-Aviv.

Refractive lenses are one of humanity's oldest and most ubiquitous technologies. They have developed to dizzying levels of sophistication in the last few hundred years, with today's tiny, high-quality lens assemblies found in smartphones often costing less than a dollar to produce.

This premium article focuses on tire recycling, including the technologies, advances in tire recycling, and market information.

This premium article discusses helium in the manufacturing industry.