Advanced Materials

IDTechEx attended the National Plastics Expo 2024 in Orlando, Florida, USA between 6th and 10th May 2024. This premium article covers some of the key takeaways from the event regarding regulatory updates impacting sustainable plastics.

This premium article explores emerging opportunities for conductive inks.

IDTechEx caught up with Hydrograph (Canada) CSO, Ranjith Divigalpitiya, at the Advanced Materials Show 2024.

Thursday 13 June 2024 - Chemical Recycling: Navigating the Landscape of Innovative Technologies and Scaling Challenges; An overview of chemical recycling of plastic technologies; Challenges to adoption and scaling; The challenges faced by enzymatic depolymerization; Chain of custody approaches; IDTechEx's outlook and conclusions

DELO is a leading company that supplies adhesive materials for various industries, including semiconductors, automotive, and consumer electronics. IDTechEx spoke with DELO regarding its recent research and development efforts in adhesive technologies tailored for advanced semiconductor packaging.

Metamaterials use regular engineered patterns of subwavelength structures to interact with waves. Electromagnetic metamaterials promise to have transformative effects within the fields of optics and telecommunications. They could make biometric recognition cheaper and more accurate, make virtual reality more immersive and comfortable, and facilitate high-speed mobile internet with zero signal blackspots, yet adoption is in its infancy.

Thermal interface materials (TIMs) are increasingly adopted, with the market size expected to exceed US$8 billion by 2034. Thermal fillers play a crucial role in TIMs as they directly affect properties such as thermal conductivity, viscosity, cost, abrasiveness, and several other factors.

Innovation map for TIM2 in EV Power Electronics and Comparison of TIM2 Properties.

This premium article will introduce electroencephalography (EEG) and related innovations in dry electrode technology.

IDTechEx attended the National Plastics Expo 2024 in Orlando, Florida, USA between 6th and 10th May 2024. This premium article covers some key takeaways from the event.

Vector Homes (UK) are a clean tech start-up providing sustainable and low-cost homes, with an emphasis on utilising recycled materials. IDTechEx spoke with the company at the Advanced Materials Show 2024, with respect to recycled external wall insulation (EWI) that leverages graphene's anti-static properties.

According to IEA's 2023 update to its net zero roadmap, carbon capture technologies, more efficient space cooling equipment, and clean energy transitions are all cornerstones of achieving net zero by 2050 and limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Emerging technologies utilizing metal-organic framework (MOF) materials for carbon capture, refrigerant reclamation, direct lithium extraction, HVAC equipment, and various other chemical separations and purification processes can see the advent of disruptive next-generation technologies that are essential for industrial decarbonization.

This premium article will focus on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS).

Haydale are a long standing manufacturer of functionalised graphene, utilising a plasma-based approach. IDTechEx caught up with the UK based company at the Advanced Materials Show 2024.

Teijin Limited is a Japanese multinational materials and technology group. This company profile covers Teijin's new gas diffusion layer (GDL) product, which is used in hydrogen fuel cells.

The Advanced Materials Show was held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham, UK on 15th and 16th May 2024. The event was co-located alongside the Advanced Ceramics Show, the Battery Cells & Systems Expo and the Vehicle Electrification Expo. In total, three IDTechEx analysts attended the conference to cover a range of the topics on display. The focus of this event summary will be the graphene industry, covered extensively by IDTechEx for over a decade. Graphene was first isolated at the University of Manchester and so there are many important players based in the UK, with the majority exhibiting at the event, either via booths or presentations. 2024 marked the 20th anniversary of the original isolation of graphene, and this was celebrated at the event.

The risk of missing out on the competitive advantage quantum computing offers is rising. Governments and private investors worldwide are placing multi-billion-dollar bets that the industry will produce huge long-term returns. Yet, for this to be realized, the theoretical advantage of quantum computers must be translated into real-world commercial value. In this article, IDTechEx explores which applications are being developed today across the materials, chemical, automotive, finance, and healthcare industries.

Innovation map for the overall comparison of TIM filler.

Antenna packaging methodologies have evolved significantly to counter the escalating signal attenuation in high-frequency communications like 5G mmWave and anticipated 6G networks. Previously, antennas were positioned on PCBs; now, there's a shift towards integrating antennas directly onto the same package as the RF chip.