This edition of the Advanced Coating & Surface Technology Opportunity Engine profiles significant advancements in Advanced Coatings and Surface Technology (ACST) for various enhanced industrial applications. The featured innovations include Nano-Based Pathogen Repelling Wrap to Prevent Contamination, Fast-track Recovery with Eluting Sirolimus Coated Scaffolds, Photonic Smart Coatings as New Solar Solutions, Solvent-Free Energy Curable Coatings for Machinery Coils, Incorporating Dielectric Material for Engineering Anti-rust Coatings, and Carbon Quantum Dots Suspension for Hydrophobic Coating Applications. These developments promise enhanced performance, sustainability, and functionality across various industrial products and processes.

The Advanced Coating & Surface Technology Opportunity Engine provides intelligence on technologies, products, processes, applications, and strategic insights on various coatings across industries. This encompasses protective and functional coatings such as antimicrobial coatings, food coatings, energy-saving coatings, smart glazing, hydrophilic, hydrophobic and super hydrophobic coatings, corrosion protection coatings, barrier coatings and paints.

The Chemicals and Advanced Materials cluster tracks research & innovation trends and developments across specialty chemicals, plastics, polymers, chemicals, bio-chemicals, metals, coatings, thin films, surface treatments, composites, alloys, oil and gas, fuel additives, fibers and several other related technologies and its impact and application across industries.

Keywords: Nanocoatings, Eluting Coatings, Photonic Coatings, Energy-curable Coatings, Atomic Layer Deposition,