REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
- BCC expects the first commercially significant sales of graphene products to develop before 2015 when the market is projected to be as large as $67 million. The graphene market should start to take off after 2015, reaching nearly $675 million by 2020, reflecting a 58.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2015 and 2020.
- BCC Research forecasts a promising near future for photonic crystals. The market was $2.1 billion in the year 2010, is expected to reach $5.2 billion in 2011, and $34.5 billion by 2016 with a CAGR of 46.1%.
- The global market for nonwoven filter media is projected to experience a 7% CAGR over the next 5 years, increasing from a value of $2.5 billion in 2010 to $3.5 billion in 2015.
REPORT SCOPE
FOREWORD
Few fields can claim to have such widespread impact as materials science. Rational materials design is attractive because it promises to avoid time-consuming synthesis and testing of an overwhelming number of materials candidates. But increasingly complex challenges have caused increasing questions for the approach. Combinatorial and high-throughput (CHT) experimentation in materials science has begun to emerge in 2011 as a potential step ahead for material design, and can be seen most visibly in the DOE Battery material testing facility, unveiled as a scientific community resource.
Graphene continues to generate both large headlines and significant funding. Photonic crystals have re-emerged as a powerful new tool, and might in photo medicine applications enable a new class of devices. In short, materials are becoming smarter, more useful, and more widespread.
This Advanced Material Research Review provides a sampling of the type of quantitative market information, analysis and guidance that has been aiding business decision making since BCC was founded in 1971. It includes highlights of reports published in 2011 on the following advanced materials markets:
- Graphene: Technologies, Applications and Markets
- Wire and Cable: Materials, Technologies and Global Markets
- Photonic Crystals: Materials, Technologies and Global Markets
- Lightweight Materials In Transportation
- Nonwoven Filter Media: Technologies and Global Markets
- Advanced Structural Carbon Products: Fibers, Foams & Composites
- Smart Materials and Their Applications: Technologies and Global Markets
- Advanced Protective Gear and Armor
We hope you find this Research Review valuable, and we look forward to serving our customers’ advanced materials market research needs.
Chris Spivey
Senior Editor
BCC Research
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