Abstract
Every one has heard about nanomaterials and their outstanding possible applications, such as "space elevators", but what are their actual capabilities and real life applications? If your technical challenges are related to scratch resistance improvement, mechanical strength increase, fireproof material, easy to clean surfaces, conductivity, UV protection and many more others, nanomaterials can provide you with innovative solutions.
The nanoscale is part of every day nature's activity, such as DNA encoding human livings or visual effect of nacre. Even human activity has been integrating nanoscale features for years, without even knowing it, as pigments in Maya blue paints or carbon black in tires.
Among the different sciences that are gathered under the term "Nanotechnologies", nanomaterials are the basic building blocks and represent, along with the equipment market, the main current business in the nano field. Nanomaterials are composed of nanoobjects, meaning objects that have at least one dimension in the range of 100 nm or smaller.
A wide range of nano-objects is currently commercially available or in development: nanoparticles, nanoclays, nanotubes, fullerenes, quantum dots, dendrimers, nanocapsules... The report contains a classification and description of these different nano-objects, as well as a list of applications per nano-objects.
Table of Contents
Introduction
- Definitions : Nanotechnologies & Nanomaterials
Focus on nano-objects and nanocomposites
- Description of the different nano-objects and their main applications:
- nanoparticles,
- nanotubes,
- fullerenes,
- quantum dots,
- nanocapsules,
- nanofibers
- Nano-objects price and market volume position
- Production methods and technical challenges
- Nano-objects and nanocomposites food chain with related business models
- Nanomaterial industry evolution.
- Market players : Worldwide general overview per type of nano objects and geographical breakdown
- Health & Safety issues
Focus on nanoparticles
- Nanoclays: products, market players, main applications and market trends
- Case studies: Nanocor, Southern clays
- Colloidal silica: products, market players, main applications and market
trends
- Case studies: Nyacol, Eka, Nanoresin
- Other inorganic nanoparticles: products, market players, main applications
and market trends
- Case studies: Nanophase, Degussa, Nanogate.
Focus on CNT
- CNT : products, market players, main applications and market trends
- Case study : Arkema, Hyperion, CNI, Zyvex
Functions granted by nanoparticles and CNT
- Description of more than 20 functions granted by nanoparticles and CNT with example of application and market penetration.
Market data and trends
- Mapping of the main functions and applications fields for every category of nano objects.
- Market Forecast for Nanoparticles and CNT
- Nano objects industry evolution
