Advanced Materials

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Lux Research scouts advanced materials throughout the innovation funnel, assisting clients in devising future business strategies that best capitalize on the emerging technologies of today and tomorrow. Coating, composite, and metal technologies enhance the performance of today’s products, while emerging platform technologies like graphene and 3D printing advance the frontier of tomorrow’s material capabilities. However, even the most remarkable materials won’t generate profits without properly crafted and informed strategies.

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:

  • Nano-enabled coatings
  • Wear- and corrosion-resistant coatings
  • Tribological and anti-fouling coatings
  • Superhydrophobic coatings
  • Ceramic nanoparticles
  • Carbon fiber composites
  • Composite processing and recycling technologies
  • High temperature thermoplastics
  • Carbon nanotubes
  • Graphene
  • Nanostructured catalysts/supports
  • Nanocrystalline metals
  • High performance metals alloys like AHSS, Al, Mg, and Ti
  • Metal matrix composites
  • Metal injection molding
  • Sheet magnesium
  • 3D printing
  • Smart materials and fluids
  • Self-healing materials
  • Metamaterials

Applications:

  • Electrostatically-paintable composite automotive body panels
  • 3D Printing and additive manufacturing
  • Wind turbine composite blades and anti-icing coatings
  • Aerospace coatings and structural composites
  • Chrome-coating replacement
  • Oil & gas drill shafts, production tubulars, and risers
  • Electrostatic dissipation (ESD) and electromagnetic interference (EMI)-shielding
  • Tribological coatings for internal combustion engines
  • Diesel oxidation catalysts
  • Polymer production from waste CO2
  • Filament wound CFRP pressure vessels

Companies:

  • Zyvex Technologies
  • tripleO
  • MesoCoat
  • Materials Innovation Technologies
  • XG Sciences
  • Morris Technologies
  • Meridian Magnesium
  • Polymics
  • Nanogate Technologies
  • Diamon-Fusion International
  • Bayer MaterialScience
  • Posco
  • SGL Group
  • Toray
  • View a sample Company Profile