Advanced Materials
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Advanced materials enable the critical coatings, composites, and catalysts for industries from aerospace to oil & gas to electronics. On-going research in fields ranging from polymer science to nanotechnology generates new materials that serve as enabling technologies for new markets and applications, creating attractive opportunities for business and investors. However, even the most remarkable materials won't generate profits without properly crafted and informed strategies.
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In our on-going coverage of the advanced materials space, Lux Research helps companies:
- Stay on top of rapidly evolving technology
- Accurately match material properties and costs to target applications
- Assess a wide variety of companies, both established and emerging
- Navigate a crowded intellectual landscape
- Monitor innovations emerging around the globe
- Understand how competing technologies stack up
Sample topics covered by Lux Research:
Technologies:
- Conductive thermoplastics
- Continuous fiber composites (e.g., prepregs)
- Chopped/short fiber composites
- Foam core and honeycomb core structures
- Metal-resin multilayer structures
- Composite processing and forming technologies
- Nanocomposites
- Nanostructured bulk materials and coatings
- Superhydrophobic coatings and surfaces
- Wear-resistant coatings
- Tribological coatings
- Photocatalytic coatings
- Advanced hetereogenous and homogenous catalysts
- Nanostructured catalyst supports
- High-throughput experimentation and rational material design
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Applications:
- Electrostatically-paintable composite automotive body panels
- Wind turbine blades
- Aerospace structural composites
- Chrome-coating replacement
- Oil & gas drill shafts
- Electrostatic dissipation (ESD) for electronics manufacturing
- Electromagnetic interference (EMI)-shielding
- Biocompatible surfaces for medical devices
- Anti-reflective coatings for solar cells
- Tribological coatings for internal combustion engines
- Polymer production from waste CO2
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Companies:
- Cyclics
- Namos
- XG Sciences
- Zyvex Technologies
- Exatec
- ItN Nanovation
- Unidym
- Nanophase
- DSM
- Bayer Material Science
- Evonik
- Hanwha Chemical
- View a sample Company Profile
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