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New Smart Windows Market Report from n-tech Research Predicts $2.6 Billion in Revenues by 2026

Richmond, Virginia: Industry analyst firm n-tech Research has just issued its latest global smart windows market report. In the report the firm notes that while the smart windows business has failed to achieve the revenues and market acceptance once predicted, the coming decade may finally produce what has eluded the space for so long. The growing global focus on reducing carbon and greenhouse gas emissions and meeting net zero mandates will result in demand for a range of technologies such as electrochromics, solar, sensors and software for building controls. Government mandates combined with incentives and development of advanced building materials and technologies will serve as powerful drivers which will, in turn, grow the smart windows market from around $300 million in 2021 to 2.6 billion in 2026.

Additional details about the new n-tech Research smart windows markets report are available at: https://www.ntechresearch.com/market-reports/smart-windows-market-opportunities/

Just over a decade ago, smart windows were seen as a viable technology and a market to invest in. But despite the messaging of improved energy efficiency and improvements to working conditions within offices, revenues and market acceptance failed to materialize. The huge amounts of money raised by electrochromic window supplier, View, showed that the smart windows market was a story about dreams and possibilities versus actual product sales and market growth.

In addition to net zero mandates that make smart windows a consideration, trends in smart cities and smart buildings and developments in materials/coating technology that will lead to even further improved cost/performance ratios in smart windows may offer additional hope to the sector. However, the report warns that if smart windows fail to take off in a smart windows/smart cities environment or are seen as less attractive than other carbon reduction technologies they will remain a niche business forever.

About the report:

This report analyzes and forecasts the worldwide smart windows market over the coming decade. The smart windows technologies that are covered include electrochromic glass, SPD (suspended particle device systems), PDLC and newer variants on liquid crystal; notably the new smart windows technology from Merck. The dominant smart windows technology is electrochromic (EC) and includes product offerings from Brite Solar, EControl-X, ChromoGenics, Finnglass, Heliotrope Technologies, Kinestral Technologies, Miru Smart Technologies, SageGlass and View. These and other prominent smart windows firms are profiled in the report.

This report goes further than other reports on smart windows opportunities by analyzing the specific opportunities for smart windows in office buildings, retail/stores, industrial buildings, multitenant buildings, single family homes, hotels and the hospitality sector, healthcare, airports (a particular favorite of the smart windows industry), educational institutions and greenhouses. We also provide a review of the status of smart windows in cars and aircraft. And this new n-tech report also includes a granular ten-year forecast for the revenues and volumes from smart windows shipments likely. Break outs of these forecasts are provided for major applications and technologies. The report also discusses the costs trends for the smart windows markets.

From the report:

- A strong driver for the renewed interest is that smart windows are being repositioned as part of an emerging smart building meme. This includes enabling integration with older building networking platforms such as Modbus, BACNet or (for more functionality) smart windows vendor proprietary networks. Taking this to the next stage smart windows will become part of edge networks in smart buildings or smart cities through the use of smart windows gateways.

- Smart windows become smarter with the use of more sensors and then AI. The report suggests that sensors will find extensive use for real-time tint. Smart windows are now expected to change on a real-time basis in response to weather conditions and without human intervention and more importantly without delay. AI may also be employed to get smart windows to respond to changing human behaviors. Factors such as when people switch on lights, when they take a break, type of work they do at a particular time, etc. can be fed into advanced algorithms for real-time tint. SageGlass already has a model-based, predictive algorithm along with exterior sensors that dictate the tinting of glass.

- We are seeing the beginnings of the next phase in the evolution of smart windows based on innovations in fabrication and materials technology. If these succeed, lower-cost EC glass will be established as an option in a broader range of buildings constructed without extravagant budgets. Another aspect to this is the role that China or other lower cost manufacturing centers will play both in electronics and units much like it has done with the solar industry.

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Founded in 2003 as NanoMarkets, n-tech Research provides industry analysis and market forecasting of opportunities presented by advanced materials and their application in energy, electronics and other cutting edge market segments. Leveraging the firm’s founders combined 70 years of experience, n-tech Research delivers carefully considered results to clients via its reports and services.

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Revenues from Smart Coatings and Smart Surfaces to Combat Bacteria and Viruses will Reach US $1.3 billion by 2025

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm, n-tech Research has just issued a new research report titled, Smart Antibacterial and Antiviral Markets, 2020. In the study the firm projects that the market for smart antibacterial and antiviral products will reach US$1.3 billion by 2025 driven by efforts to combat Covid-19 and provide safer workplace, healthcare and improved public health. n-tech predicts that end users will now buy more antimicrobial coatings and surfaces to prevent the spread of pathogens. While many of the developments in this area are at their earliest stages, this report also looks at the potential for investment and supply chain dominance by large multinationals such as DSM and AkzoNobel.

Additional details of the report are available at: https://www.ntechresearch.com/market-reports/smart-antibacterial-materials/

About the Report

n-tech Research has been tracking market developments and business dynamics in antibacterial smart coatings and surfaces sector since 2014. The firm’s latest report identifies the key opportunities emerging for smart materials and smart surfaces that target both antibacterial and antiviral markets. COVID-19’s impact on consumers and industries has been far reaching and is shaping the opportunities in this sector. In this report issues discussed include:

How COVID-19 drives the entire antimicrobial market. In the past, the biggest drivers for smart anti-microbials have been healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. This report shows how the advent of COVID-19 has broadened the market. The severity of COVID-19 means that both consumer and industrial markets are now intensely interested in providing anti-microbial protection to employees and loved ones. The COVID-19 scare promoted product development into both antivirals and antibacterials

Changing patterns in end-user price sensitivity. In the past, consumers have been reluctant to buy smart antimicrobial products because of their high price and short life. Today this has changed as smart antimicrobials are justified on the basis of health, economic and societal requirements. A major focus of antimicrobial R&D is to make them more cost effective and give them longer lifetimes

The new opportunity presented by antivirals. Antivirals have understandably received special attention in these efforts. (COVID-19 is a virus). This report discusses how new materials are being developed specifically for antiviral protection.

Why smart materials are of growing importance in the antimicrobial market. Established smart materials – self-cleaning and self-healing coatings and surfaces – are obviously important in providing anti-microbial functionality. Affix Labs and others have introduced an antiviral coating with self-cleaning technology, based on silane quaternary ammonium. polymeric biocides are distinctly smart – they embody antimicrobial characteristics with self-healing ability. DSM Biomedical, offers an anti-microbial coating that self-assembles and is based on hydrophilic technology. Hydrogels are sometimes claimed to have considerable promise because they can incorporate and/or release antimicrobial agents

Where the R&D centers of excellence are to be found for smart antimicrobials. Some major academic institutions that this report indicates may produce breakthroughs in smart antimicrobials include ETH (Switzerland, COVID sensor), Northwestern University (wearable COVID sensor) RMIT University (Australia, gallium-based liquid metal nanoparticles), University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (antiviral coatings), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israel, antiviral nanoparticle coatings), McMaster University (Canada, self-cleaning antibacterial surface that repels bacteria) and the University of Texas (sensor for COVID-19 and flu).

This report is accompanied by an Excel spreadsheet with granular ten-year forecasts of all the markets considered in the report with breakouts by application, type of end user and type of material. The report also provides coverage of the supply structure including an assessment of (1) the product/market strategies of leading suppliers and (2) how supply chains are evolving.

Forecasts from the Report

By 2025, smart antiviral coatings are expected to generate $340 millions in revenue, with much of these revenues coming from pre-existing products that have been re-purposed for the age of COVID-19. Rebranding or re-purposing existing products enables suppliers to quickly move into the rapidly growing market for antivirals. An example, of this strategy is provided by Airdal with a brand of antimicrobial coating that it has remarked as an antiviral. We also note that Airdal’s product is “powered” by Liquid Guard an established antimicrobial coating

Smart antibacterial surfaces are expected to produce revenues for $306 million by 2025. These include surfaces with embedded sensors and delivery mechanisms that deliver antibacterials. Also relevant are smart cleaning surfaces and smart healing surfaces. Future antimicrobial smart surfaces may embody sensors to identify and detect dangerous bacteria. Antiviral surfaces do not exist yet but may appear on the market in the next eight to ten years.

n-tech expects a flood of material innovations in order to stop the spread of bacteria and especially viruses. Novel materials including biocides, antimicrobial peptide coatings, organosilane nanocoatings and liquid metals are forecast in the report to reach $227.3 millions for antibacterial use. An important materials trend for antimicrobials is the use of Companies exemplifying this trend include Agienic (copper salt), GBneuhaus (nanocoatings for glass surfaces), Kastus (coatings for touch screens) and NanoPhyll (nanocomposites)

About n-tech:

n-tech Research is the recognized leader in providing industry analysis and forecasts for emerging technologies and advanced and smart materials. Visit the firm’s website at http://www.ntechresearch.com for a full listing of the company’s reports and other services.

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New n-tech Report Says Global Smart Windows Market to Reach $ 5.6 billion by 2023

Glen Allen, VA: In its latest report on the global smart windows market, “Smart Windows Markets: 2018-2027”, n-tech Research predicts that the market will reach revenues of $5.6 billion by 2023 compared to $375 million in 2018. Much of this growth will come from smart windows moving from solely being a luxury building product to serving the needs of mid-range commercial buildings and residential multi-tenant buildings.

Details about the report, including a downloadable excerpt are available at: https://www.ntechresearch.com/market-reports/smart-windows-markets-2018-2027/

This report is the latest deliverable from n-tech’s research program on the global smart windows market. This just-released report investigates the technology and market changes that have occurred since then.

Source, n-tech Research

About the report:

n-tech has been covering smart windows markets for almost a decade and has watched the industry struggle through years of trying to make a case for smart windows based entirely on energy savings. While energy savings will remain a powerful driver for smart windows the report identifies several other technological and market drivers that are combining to make 2018 a transformatory year for the business.

This report quantifies the market for “smart windows” based on electrochromic (EC), SPD, PDLC and passive technologies in both volume (square meters) and value ($ millions) terms. It also discusses how smart windows are being aggressively melded into the Internet-of-things (IoT) business ecosystem and how the markets for smart windows are moving beyond the luxury buildings that characterized smart windows up until now. Both smart windows for buildings and transportation (automotive, aerospace and marine) are covered.

The report provides ten-year revenue forecasts broken out by material/technology type and application. In addition, the report discusses the business models being employed by leading firms in the smart windows space including their use of automation. Companies discussed in this report include: Argil, Chameleon, Guardian, Polytronix, Research Frontiers, SageGlass/Saint-Gobain, View, Smart Film Glass, RavenWindow, Pleotint, ChromoGenics, EControl-Glas, e-Chromic, Gentex, Boeing, Daimler-Benz, PPG, Asahi Glass and Vision Systems Aeronautics.

From the report:

Electrochromic materials account for the lion’s share of the market for the period under consideration. More than 90% of these windows will be electrochromic technology. Passive smart windows, PDLC, and SPD smart windows will find profitable niches. With EC the winning solution, new technologies aimed at the smart windows market will now find it very difficult to succeed.

Until recently smart windows were found overwhelmingly in prestige buildings that were characterized by very high budgets, designed to impress, with the use of smart windows. However, in 2018 the smart windows market is opening up to a wider market including mid-range commercial buildings and multitenant residential blocks.

n-tech expects smart windows to become an important component in the Internet of Things (IoT). By 2023, the firm expects that 90 percent of smart windows sales will include IoT or some other form of automation technology.

The selling point for smart windows will move beyond energy savings towards comfort, aesthetics, spatial experience, controllability and integration with other elements of smart buildings including lighting, networking and security.

About n-tech:

n-tech Research is the rebrand of NanoMarkets. Our firm is the recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts in smart materials and advanced materials more generally. Visit http://www.ntechresearch.com for a full listing of the firm’s reports and other services.

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n-tech Research
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New n-tech Research Report States the Market for Smart Antimicrobial Coatings and Surfaces Will Reac

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm n-tech Research today announced the release of a new report titled “Markets for Smart Antimicrobial Coatings and Surfaces – 2018 –2027.” According to the report the market for smart antimicrobials will grow to around $2.3 Billion by 2020.

Details about the report, including a downloadable excerpt are available at: http://ntechresearch.com/product/markets-for-smart-antimicrobial-coatings-and-surfaces-2017-to-2026.

This report is the latest deliverable from n-tech’s research program on smart materials. It is a follow-on report to our highly successful 2015 report covering the same topics and investigates the technology and market changes that have occurred since then.

About the report:

This report quantifies the market for “smart antimicrobials,” including antimicrobial peptides, smart polymers, silver preparations, antimicrobials based on titanium dioxide and some newer materials. It also covers emerging multifunctional materials combining antimicrobial action with self-cleaning and self-healing capabilities.

The report provides ten-year revenue forecasts, by material type and application. Medical applications covered include implants, surgical tools, medical facility surfaces, medical uniforms and general medical equipment. Non-medical applications comprise clothing and textiles, consumer products, the food supply chain, buildings and construction, automotive and military.

In addition, the report discusses the business models being employed by leading firms in the smart antimicrobials space. These include direct sales to end users, sales to OEMs, of antimicrobial additives to manufacturers of other coatings firms. Companies discussed in this report include: AK Coatings, Americhem, Amicoat, AntiMicrobial Environments International, BASF, Biocote, Bio-Gate, DiFusion Technologies, DowDuPont, DSM Biomedical, Gelest, Microba, Nolla, Parker Hannefin, Parx Plastics, Polygiene, Sciessent, Specialty Coating Systems, and TiFiber

Highlights:

The market for smart antimicrobials will remain dominated by silver-based materials. However, silver’s share of the market will fall dramatically over the next few years; from 85 percent in 2018 to 72 percent in 2023. Silver antimicrobials will be replaced by an increasingly diverse range of antimicrobial offerings including composites, organosilanes, etc. In the long-run, peptides hold considerable promise for truly smart antimicrobials since they can selectively kill microbes, retaining helpful bacteria and killing harmful ones. Antimicrobials are becoming smarter through hybridization with self-cleaning and self-healing materials, but such hybrid materials are still a long way from serious commercialization.

More than 95 percent of the smart antimicrobial market will be found in the healthcare/medical market over next decade; manufacturers continue to find it difficult to make the case for their products outside of healthcare facilities. Nonetheless, non-healthcare revenues for smart antimicrobials — for markets such as schools, office, cell phones and food packaging — will still reach almost $125 million by 2023.

Europe will have a marginal lead over North America for smart antimicrobial coatings spending – by 2023, European sales of smart antimicrobials will reach $870 million compared with approximately $750 million in North America. In Europe the use of smart antimicrobials is being driven by ambitious projects such as Horizon-2020, an initiative by the European Commission that supports various projects working on antimicrobial innovations. By contrast, in the US there are some reservations in applying antimicrobials and the FDA is approving new antimicrobial coatings cautiously.

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Self-Healing Materials Market to Reach $2.4 billion by 2022

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm n-tech Research today announced the release of a new report titled “Markets for Self-healing Materials 2017-2024”. The report states that the market for self-healing materials will reach $2.4 billion by 2022. Although some applications for self-healing materials have not taken off since n-tech’s previous report on the subject in 2015, automotive and construction uses are already generating significant revenues.

Details about the report are available at: http://ntechresearch.com/product/markets-for-self-healing-materials-2017-2024

About the report:

Self-healing materials includes both coatings and surfaces with integrated self-healing mechanisms. In this report we cover applications for such materials in consumer products, automotive, energy generation, construction, military, medical and aerospace. Materials covered include reversible polymers, shape memory materials, vascular systems, capsule-based systems and biomaterials among others.

The report also provides ten-year revenue forecasts for self-healing materials in all of the applications covered with breakouts by type of application, self-healing mechanism, and customer geography. In addition, we critically assess the business models employed by the firms focused self-healing materials space.

Highlights:

Reversible polymers dominate the self-healing materials market at present, and will still account for 37 percent of the market by 2022. However, the big growth opportunities will come from self-healing systems based on microencapsulation or vascular systems. Self-healing materials using microencapsulation systems will generate revenues of $1.1 billion in revenues in 2022.

The automotive sector already uses self-healing aftermarket coatings, but has begun to sample much higher performing self-healing materials that can comply with the industry’s demanding coatings requirements. The rapidly growing use of relatively fragile composites in the automotive sector is a strong driver for the development of self-healing composites. There are similar trends in the construction sector, with self healing concrete undergoing commercialization. Although, it will take until 2019 to take off, we expect sales of self-healing materials for construction to reach $475 million by 2022.

Composites are not the only materials that are becoming self-healing. Interesting work is being done on self-healing metals – although at an early stage, a market for self-healing metals can hardly be doubted. We are also witnessing a concerted effort to create self-healing ceramics – these will have an important role to play for engines and electrical generators. Carbon nanotubes have been envisioned for sensors that can detect cracks and initiate a self-healing process. CNTs could also be used as thermal guides to heal reversible polymers.

About n-tech:

n-tech Research is the rebrand of NanoMarkets. Our firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts in highly functional materials. Visit http://www.ntechresearch.com for a full listing of the firm’s reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
n-tech Research
(804) 938-0030
rob@ntechresearch.com

New n-tech Research Report Predicts Smart Windows Markets to Reach $1.8 billion by 2021

Glen Allen, VA: n-tech Research has announced the release of a new report titled, “Smart Windows Markets: 2016-2025.” This report pegs total revenues from smart windows at $1.8 billion, rising to $8.0 billion by 2025.

This report continues the firm’s coverage of smart windows markets that dates back to 2008. It discusses the opportunities across a broad range of materials platforms for both automotive and building glass. It is also the first report to analyze how the smart windows business is leveraging the opportunities afforded by the Internet-of-Things.

The ten-year forecasts in this report are completely revised from previous n-tech smart windows reports and take account to latest technology trends, real estate and automotive industry statistics, and pricing information, as well as the installed bases of the leading smart windows technology providers. This report presents granular ten-year projections in both volume (square meters) and value ($ millions) terms. Breakouts include by technology, end-user type and industry and geographic location of smart windows. Separate forecasts are provided commercial real estate, residential real estate, automobiles, public transport and aerospace.

In addition, the report discusses the product/market strategies of the leading smart windows providers including: Argil, Asahi Glass, Chromogenics, Gentex, Guardian Industries, Hitachi, New Visual Media, NSG, Pleotint, Polytronix, PPG, RavenWindow, Research Frontiers, Sage, Saint-Gobain, Scienstry, SWITCH Materials, Toray, US e-Chromics, and View, among others.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://ntechresearch.com/product/smart-windows-markets-2016-2025

From the Report:

Rather than just a materials play, as it once was, n-tech believes that much of the value added available to smart windows suppliers will flow from control systems, interfaces and related electronics. Today smart windows are very much an Internet-of-Things (IoT) story and this report explores how this development is creating opportunities for the smart windows firms. It also explores how smart windows materials platforms – electrochromic, SPD, PDLC, photochromic and thermochromic will adapt to this new challenge.

In the past the benefits of smart windows have generally be defined almost exclusively in terms of energy efficiency. What n-tech is seeing is that the marketing story around smart windows is now broadening to include comfort, health and daylighting issue. This report examines smart windows in the construction, automotive and aerospace sectors. Also, as part of this analysis we examine the potential for smart window retrofits.

Other Findings:

Electrochromic (EC) technology will account for 75 percent of revenues in the smart windows space in 2021, more than twice the share that it has in 2016. The advent of EC film will enable a smart windows retrofit market to emerge for the first time, as well as novel EC materials being used. EC technology is also where the bulk of investment dollars are flowing.

n-tech expects manufacturers of the other active smart windows materials platforms (PDLC and SPD) to respond with new marketing and R&D efforts to broaden the market for these technologies. The firm sees SPD, while smaller than EC technology, reaching around $280 million by 2021.

Smart windows are penetrating the construction market at a brisk rate and will contribute more than $1.3 billion in revenues by 2021 compared with just $105 million in 2016.

Aerospace applications for smart windows are also attracting growing attention from both EC and SPD technology providers, but will never be much more than a niche market.

The automotive market for smart windows is only just beginning to take off and its success will depend to some extent on whether current efforts by the EC firms in the automotive space are successful.

Passive smart windows will also be looking for new markets since cannot be easily integrated into the IoT environment. n-tech anticipates that revenues from passive windows will struggle to reach $100 million in revenue in 2021.

About n-tech:

n-tech Research is the rebrand of NanoMarkets. Our firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts in advanced materials and novel energy sources. Visit https://ntechresearch.com/ for a full listing of the firm’s reports and other services.

n-tech Announces Webinar Presentation for Smart Coatings Markets 2016-2025

n-tech will be hosting a webinar presentation on Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 10:00 AM EDT to present findings from the firm’s recently issued report on smart coatings.

This webinar presents findings from n-tech Research’s latest smart coatings report. During the presentation, n-tech Research’s principal analyst, Lawrence Gasman, will share market and technology trends, top level forecasts and discuss where the next wave of opportunities will be found.

The event will consist of a 30 minute presentation and up to 15 minutes of Q&A.

We hope you will join us.

Register Here: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3065521257526931972

n-tech Projects Smart Coatings Market Will Grow to $8.1 billion by 2021

GLEN ALLEN, Virginia: n-tech Research has announced the release of a new report titled, “Smart Coatings Markets 2016-2025,” a report that continues the firm’s coverage of the smart coatings market, which dates back to 2010. The report shows that the smart coatings market will grow to just over $8.1 billion by 2021.

Additional details about the report are available at: http://ntechresearch.com/market_reports/smart-coatings-markets-2016-2025

About the Report:
This 250-page report analyzes the markets for smart coatings in key sectors of the economy including construction, energy, aerospace, automotive, marine medical and healthcare, consumer electronics, textiles and the military. Coverage includes smart coatings with the functionality to self-heal, self-clean, de-ice, combat corrosion and marine fouling, reduce drag in transportation, enable smart (self-dimming) windows, combat resistant microbes and color shift, etc. The report also explores the role of smart coatings in futuristic developments such as smart skins and structural health monitoring.

In addition, this report provides analysis of the latest developments in R&D in emerging areas such as microencapsulated and nano-vascular self-healing coatings, superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic coatings, and smart polymers. n-tech believes that innovation in these areas will produce a slew of new start-ups and interest from venture capitalists. This report also focuses on the latest developments in formulating and depositing smart polymers, especially the ability of manufacturing processes in this area to scale up.

The report also provides detailed eight-year forecasts in both volume (square meters) and value ($ millions) terms. For each end-user sector the report includes separate forecasts for all the main classes of smart coatings.

Also included are discussions of the product market strategies of the firms that are currently shaping the smart coatings market. These include some of the biggest firms in the coatings and specialty chemicals space such as 3M, AkzoNobel, BASF, Dow, DSM, DuPont, other large multinationals such as Corning and GE and the latest startups.

From the Report:
The report suggests that smart coatings have reached a stage of technological maturity where they can replace traditional anti-corrosion, anti-icing, anti-fouling, and other industrial protective coatings. These smart protective coatings will reach approximately $2 billion in sales by 2021, based on their ability reduce downtime and maintenance costs for vehicles, marine vessels, buildings and large pieces of industrial machinery

n-tech also sees a new opportunity opening up for smart coatings in the consumer sector, where sales of these coatings to consumer electronics, furniture, textiles, etc., will be worth around $1 billion by 2021. Low-end self-cleaning and self-healing sprays have been available to the consumer market for many years. But durable smart consumer coatings are now reaching price points that will make them attractive to high-income consumer markets with strong use cases that can compete with anti-scratch coatings and other polishes.

Despite these advances, n-tech believes that commercialization of some of the manufacturing and formulation of smart coatings still have a way to go, especially in terms of scalability. Some inherently smart manufacturing technologies such as self-assembly, layer-by-layer have high potential for creating smart coatings, but the details are sill being worked out. In addition, n-tech sees the smart coatings business finding new commercial directions through the use of the latest nanomaterials and notes that developing smart coatings has become one focus for firms developing applications for carbon nanotubes and graphene.

About n-tech:
n-tech Research is the rebrand of NanoMarkets. Our firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts in advanced materials and novel energy sources. Visit http://www.ntechresearch.com for a full listing of the firm’s reports and other services.

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Robert Nolan
n-tech Research
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n-tech Research Releases Free Paper, “Smart Coatings in Aerospace Markets”

Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm n-tech Research today announced that it will be releasing its annual survey of the smart coatings market in late June of 2016. The report titled, “Smart Coatings Markets 2016-2025” provides a unique collection of market analysis and forecasting that provides companies a single source of comprehensive smart coatings data. Details of the report are available at: http://ntechresearch.com/market_reports/smart-coatings-markets-2016-2025. The firm is offering pre-publication pricing on the report through June 24, 2016.

In advance of the report the firm has released a preview of the report titled, “ Smart Coatings in Aerospace Markets” that examines the market trends opportunities for smart coatings within the aerospace sector. Persons interested in receiving the paper may do so by requesting a copy via the n-tech Research website at http://ntechresearch.com/contactus

From the paper:

Aerospace coatings represent a well-defined segment of the coatings industry as a whole and one that is open to new types of coatings and coating processes and has embraced nanocoatings throughout the aerospace industry. Plasma spray and 3D printing are also in use on critical parts in aircraft engines and other components. As n-tech sees it, there are no barriers to entry for smart coatings suppliers in aerospace markets based on a perceived need in the industry to adhere to traditional materials.

But the real question for firms making smart coatings is, can these coatings be sold as enabling important advantages along the dimensions of (1) safety (2) comfort (3) fuel economy (4) other operational efficiencies. As n-tech sees it, these are four established areas where aircraft manufacturers—if convinced that their use of specialist coatings can lead to demonstrable cost or performance improvements—will quickly make commitments to new coatings.

About the report:

In its report, “Smart Coatings Markets 2016-2025”, n-tech identifies the emerging market opportunities for smart coatings across a wide range of applications in consumer products, medicine and healthcare, construction, automotive, marine, energy and military areas. The report examines the use of a wide variety of materials with self-healing, anti-corrosion, anti-fouling, self-cleaning, self-monitoring, self-assembling and other smart functionalities. Multifunctional coatings that combine two or more of these functionalities are also discussed.

Finally, we provide a roadmap and ten-year forecast (in volume and value terms) for smart coatings in each sector covered and, where possible, we provide breakouts by materials type. In addition, the report also assesses the R&D and marketing strategies of the leading firms that are active in the commercialization of smart coatings. In addition, the report also examines how smart surfaces will find their place in smart environments where they must compete with embedded sensors and smart coatings.

About n-tech:

n-tech Research is the rebrand of NanoMarkets. Our firm is a recognized leader in industry analysis and forecasts in smart coatings and materials markets. Visit http://www.ntechresearch.com for a full listing of the firm’s reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
n-tech Research
(804) 938-0030
rob@ntechresearch.com

n-tech Predicts that Revenues from Shape Memory Polymers will Exceed $1 billion in Revenues by 2021

Glen Allen, Virginia: Industry analyst firm n-tech Research today announced the release of a new report titled “Markets for Shape Memory Polymers: 2016-2025.” According to the report the market for shape memory polymers (SMP) will exceed $1.0 billion by 2021, going on to reach $3.4 billion by 2025.

Details about the report, including a downloadable excerpt are available at: http://ntechresearch.com/product/shape-memory-polymers-2016-2025

An n-tech report on shape memory alloys will be published later in Q2 of this year.

About the report:

This report provides a technology and market assessment of Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs). The report focuses on four key markets for SMPs – aerospace, automotive, medicine and healthcare and construction – as well niche markets for SMPs in areas such as robotics, textiles, machine tools and and brand protection. For each of these end user markets, the report includes detailed ten-year revenue forecasts with breakouts by product types with in each of these markets.

The report also provides a technical chapter in which we discuss the different kinds of plastics that exhibit shape memory effects and discuss which applications each is suited to. This chapter includes a ten-year forecast breaking out the market by SMP material type, with breakouts by plastic type and activation type. This chapter also includes an assessment of manufacturing technologies for SMPs, with a discussion of scalability and cost of the processes involved.

Companies profiled in this report include: Aporo Biomedical, BASF, Cornerstone Research, Covestro, EndoShape, Evonik, Gemini Materials, MedShape, Mitsubishi, SMP Technologies, Spintech, Syzgy Memory Plastics and others.

Highlights:

By 2021, n-tech expects the revenue generated by medical/healthcare applications of SMPs to reach around $330 million. This is an area where there are already many patents and early products covering coil release systems, intravenous syringes, stents, catheters, orthodontic implants, braces and splints, ophthalmic devices and sutures. In the future, SMPs will find significant use in the neuronal probes and drug delivery systems. While SMAs could be used in most of these applications, SMPs have much higher biocompatibility than SMAs, which confers considerable competitive advantages on SMP-enabled medical devices.

Medical and healthcare is the largest segment of the SMP market, closely followed by the automotive industry, which will purchase around $280 million in SMP devices in 2021. SMP will primarily be used as a self-healing material for automobiles and trucks. Among the products that SMPs are expected to enable here are SMP-based bumpers that will quickly recover from fender benders. SMP/metal composites are also expected to provide similar self-healing capabilities in car bodies themselves. Not all of the applications for SMP focus on self-healing capabilities; SMPs can also be used in airflow control devices and automatic chokes and tunable brackets.

Today’s SMPs are mostly thermo-responsive, which makes them easy to restore with equipment as simple as a hair dryer. Even, by 2021 n-tech expects almost half of the revenues in the SMP space to come from thermo-responsive SMPs. However, by then there will also be sizable markets for photo-responsive SMPs and chemo-responsive SMPs as well as from SMP composites of various kinds.

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