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This study explores the rapidly evolving landscape of functional polymer additives and their critical role in enabling advanced material properties across global industries. Covering six core additive families, stabilizers, plasticizers, flame retardants, fillers and reinforcements, impact modifiers and compatibilizers, and processing and surface a...

Chromic materials are gaining significant traction globally owing to the increasing demand for a broad spectrum of applications such as textile, healthcare, automotive, aerospace and defense , food and beverages, and electronics. These materials take up change in external stimulus such as light, temperature, electric field and magnetic field to de...

The coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers (CASE) & construction materials industry continued to witness growth and transformation in 2024, even amidst ongoing sustainability and supply chain challenges. The industry addressed these issues in both proactive and responsive ways with innovative product lines, technology integration, and effect...

Climate change is an unavoidable force shaping today’s world, regardless of political debates or resistance to scientific consensus. Its physical impacts, such as damage to infrastructure, disruption of supply chains, rising insurance costs, and increased financial risk, are visible daily. While the effects of global warming will only intensify, mo...

Modular construction is a type of construction where building units are prefabricated off-site in a controlled manufacturing plant and then transported and assembled on-site. This process reduces construction time, produces less waste, and is more cost-effective than conventional construction methods. In this study, Frost & Sullivan focuses on mate...

In recent decades, there has been an increase of possibilities in the use of conducting polymers, carbon nanotubes, and graphene for building novel biosensors, due to the advancement of polymers and carbon nanomaterials. The use of polymers, CNTs and graphene as sensor components, due to their exceptional features, are intended to make sensors incr...

This issue of High-Tech Materials Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) highlights technology developments related to innovations in digital technologies for material modelling and high-strength steels across applications. Innovations related to biomimetics, computational design methods, automotive steels, metallic glasses, and artificial neural netw...

The highly anticipated commercialization of 5G finally materialized in 2019, and several countries, including the United States, South Korea, and China, led from the front. The spike in new infrastructure investments, especially in China, will propel the demand for 5G equipment and materials, thereby resulting in a wave of optimism in an otherwise ...

With the increasing demand for high efficiency electronics and other components including electrical circuits, there is significant traction observed for innovation landscape of electrically conductive materials. The recent demand to improve the functionality of the adopted materials has resulted in a shift towards the increase in global demand fo...