Most bio-based fuels and chemicals are made from food crops today, but companies are under pressure from governments and economic forces to switch to non-food cellulosic materials instead.
Large-scale stationary energy is key to a smarter power grid and for integration of intermittent renewables. Redox flow batteries are touted as an emerging option, but have been too expensive.
Led by optical coherence tomography (OCT) the clinical optical imaging market will rise to $2 billion in 2020, more than doubling from 2012.
New technologies to enhance exploration and production of oil and gas have attracted $7 billion in funding since 2003, as waves of innovation have opened up new kinds of plays in shale gas, tight oil, and heavy oil.
Power electronics – used to convert and manage electricity in devices ranging from mobile phones to pumps and motors – will grow to a market worth $23 billion for discrete components in 2024, up from $13 billion today.
Samsung, Merck, BASF, Sony and Philips are the world’s leading innovators in printed, flexible and organic electronics (PFOE), according to Lux Research, which rated corporations based on both internal R&D spending and open innovation activities.
Hewlett-Packard (HP) recently released a white paper detailing its planned 3D printer. HP’s "Multi Jet Fusion" system claims a tenfold increase in build speed, improved part quality with controllable properties like color, elasticity and strength, and better "economics" than current offerings.
Driven by the global rise of obesity, diabetes, and other health concerns, alternative sweeteners have gained a 12% share of the $73.4 billion global market for sweeteners and 22% of its volume by sucrose equivalent (SE).
Construction of green buildings rose to 325 million m2 of new floor space in 2013, representing a $260 billion market, with growth driven by economic benefits rather than environmental motivations.
The bio-based materials and chemicals industry is poised to attract nearly $1 billion in investment this year, led notably by later-stage funding rounds.
The market for commercial uses of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, will grow to $1.7 billion in 2025, driven by a broad range of applications led by agriculture.
Lux Research announced today the launch of its new Lux Invest Intelligence service, extending its offerings to the Financial Services segment.
The allure of flexible local production based on 3D printing has led to claims that 3D printing will undermine the advantages that have made China a manufacturing and exporting powerhouse.
Buildings account for about 40% of energy consumption and carbon emissions. Green building technologies can reduce this environmental footprint significantly, but a lack of reliable information about available technologies is holding back adoption.
Printed, flexible and organic electronic (PFOE) sensors can offer flexible form factors, larger area, lower cost, lower power, and better disposability compared to conventional sensors, key attributes for wearable applications.
Tesla Motors’ plan to build a new 35 GWh lithium-ion cell production facility – dubbed the Gigafactory – for electric vehicles that will bring about only a modest reduction in battery costs, and create significant overcapacity, given likely sales of less than half the targeted 500,000.
Led by China, the solar industry will grow at a CAGR of 8.3% – from 37.5 GWp in 2013 to 65.6 GWp in 2019 – but emerging trade disputes involving the Asian giant, as much as global policies, cast a shadow over short-term prospects.
Building-integrated vegetation (BIV) – the use of green roofs and green walls to improve air quality, manage storm-water and generate energy savings – is experiencing a burst of innovation to lower costs and hasten payback on investment.
Wide bandgap (WBG) materials such as silicon carbide (SiC) and gallium nitride (GaN) are best positioned to address emerging power electronics performance needs in electric vehicles (EVs), with SiC displacing silicon as early as 2020.
District heating (DH) can deliver cost gains of up to 74% over conventional distributed heating, with benefits varying with technologies, fuels and climate.
Once considered risky and expensive, the $500 million chemical enhanced oil recovery (EOR) market has been revitalized by higher oil prices, improved chemical formulations and advances in laboratory analysis, with Canada and the Middle East leading the way for global expansion.
With new materials and processing technologies opening up new applications, versatile high performance thermoplastics will gain broader adoption.
Customer-owned microgrids will be the dominant ownership model in the near-term, while MaaS offers a completely new business model with flexible growth opportunities.
The next wave of tech innovation will bring wearable computers to mainstream, but in the long term highly integrated invisible computing will take over.
Customer-owned microgrids will be the dominant ownership model in the near-term, while MaaS offers a completely new business model with flexible growth opportunities.
Racking and mounting cost reductions and electrical innovations will cut balance-of-system costs, with biggest drops in the residential segment.
