Explorer | Sample Technology Map (December 2012)
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Strategic Business Insights Technology Map Business Opportunities in Technology Commercialization Smart Materials Technology Analyst: Carl Telford Telephone: +44 (0) 20 8686 1416 Fax: +44 20 8760 0635 Email: [email protected] Samplewww.strategicbusinessinsights.com Pages Strategic Business Insights’ (SBI’s) Explorer is a multiclient service that provides clients with an unbiased analysis of business opportunities arising from fast-moving technologies as they move from research to commercial status. SBI technology analysts monitor and evaluate significant technological, industrial, and commercial developments of a wide range of technology areas, including biotechnologies through materials, processes, energy, electronics, information technologies, and communications. With a focus on commercialization of the technologies, Explorer provides clients with insights and intelligence to help them make critical technology-related business and policy decisions. The structured Technology Map and its integral charts offer a logical comprehensive guide to the many commercial development parameters, issues, and uncertainties behind successful technology commercialization, together with a review of the commercial implications of significant developments. Explorer delivers its intelligence through an interactive consultation service, frequently updated Technology Maps, and a monthly bulletin, Viewpoints, in which analysts examine the significance of change and evaluate worldwide developments and their implications for global business. Available technologies include: • Artificial Intelligence • Nanomaterials • Biocatalysis • Novel Ceramic/Metallic Materials • Biomaterials • Optoelectronics/Photonics • Biopolymers • Organic Electronics • Biosensors • Pervasive Computing • Collaboration Tools • Photovoltaics • Connected Cars • Polymer-Matrix Composites • Connected Homes • Portable Electronic Devices • Engineering Polymers • Portable Power • Flat-PanelSample Displays • Renewable Energy Technologies • Fuel Cells • RFID Technologies • Membrane Separation • Robotics • MEMS/Micromachining • Smart Materials • Mobile Communications Pages• Solid-State Microsensors • Nanobiotechnology • User Interfaces • Nanoelectronics • Virtual Worlds For more detailed information about Explorer, visit our website at www.strategicbusinessinsights.com ; email: [email protected] ; or phone +1 650 859 4600 in the United States; +44 (0) 20 8686 5555 in Europe; +81 3 3222 6501 in Asia. Technology Map Smart Materials Technology Analyst: Carl Telford COMMERCIALIZATION OF SMART MATERIALS Commercial Synergistic Development Technologies Parameters Opportunities • New Materials Required Demand — Bigger Response A Resources Factors to Stimuli — New Stimuli B • Controllable 1 2 Responses Regulatory 3 General C 4 hnolog Factors 5 Constraints Tec y Growth s se n o D Competing s e Technologies R t n Technology ie E ic Capability ff E e r o F M d n a • Relatively Few r e Diverse Range Automotive Materials st G Fa of Smart Components • Uncontrolled Materials and Systems SampleResponses Implications of Commercialization Penetration of Delays in Mass Mass Markets Commercialization Opportunities Key: A = Automotive PagesTime B = Aerospace and Defense C = Medical D = Industrial, Power, and Construction E = Electronics F = Consumer Products G = Robotics Source: SBI SMART MATERIALS Detailed Contents . 5 DETAILED CONTENTS Importance of the Technology . 1 • Social Change and an Aging Population ........... 29 • MEMS in Structures .......................................... 29 • Increase in R&D Funds ...................................... 29 • High-Response Materials ................................... 29 The Technology in Brief . 3 • Recycling of Electronics .................................... 29 • Advantages ........................................................... 5 • Artificial Muscles ............................................... 30 • Disadvantages ...................................................... 7 • Nanotechnology ................................................. 30 • Materials Technology in Brief: • Smart Materials in Buildings ............................. 31 Field-Dependent Solids ........................................ 7 • Increasing Functionality ..................................... 31 — Piezoelectric Materials ................................... 7 • Metamaterials ..................................................... 31 — Magnetostrictive Materials ............................. 8 — Electrostrictive Polymers ............................... 9 • Materials Technology in Brief: Smart Fluids ...... 9 Implications of — Magnetorheological Fluids ............................. 9 Commercialization . 33 — Ferrofluids .................................................... 10 • Diverse Range of Smart Materials ..................... 34 — Electrorheological Fluids ............................. 10 • Automotive Components and Systems .............. 34 • Materials Technology in Brief: • Penetration of Mass Markets ............................. 34 Shape-Memory Materials ................................... 11 • Delays in Mass Commercialization ................... 35 — Shape-Memory Alloys ................................. 11 • Consequences of Change ................................... 35 — Shape-Memory Polymers ............................. 13 • Materials Technology in Brief: Thermoelectric Materials ................................... 13 Opportunities . 37 • Beyond Smart Materials: Metamaterials ........... 14 • Beyond Smart Materials: Living Materials ........ 14 • Automotive and Ground Transport .................... 42 • Other Materials .................................................. 14 — Industry Structure ........................................ 43 • Device Technology in Brief ............................... 15 — Opportunities ................................................ 44 — Shape-Memory Devices ............................... 15 • Aerospace and Defense ...................................... 47 — Smart Glass Devices ..................................... 16 — Industry Structure ......................................... 48 — Self-Healing Materials and Components ..... 16 — Opportunities ................................................ 49 — Energy-Harvesting Devices .......................... 17 • Medical .............................................................. 50 — Smart Textiles............................................... 18 — Industry Structure ......................................... 51 — Thermoelectric Modules............................... 18 — Opportunities ................................................ 51 • Industrial, Power, and Construction ................... 53 — Industry Structure ......................................... 53 Commercial Development — Opportunities ................................................ 54 ParametersSample . 21 • Electronics .......................................................... 56 — Industry Structure ......................................... 57 • Demand Factors ................................................. 21 — Opportunities ................................................ 57 • General Constraints ............................................ 22 • Consumer Products ............................................ 58 • Synergistic Technologies ................................... 23 — Industry Structure ......................................... 59 • Competing Technologies ................................... 23 — Opportunities ................................................ 60 • Required Resources ........................................... 23 • Robotics ............................................................. 62 • Regulatory Factors .............................................Pages24 — Industry Structure ......................................... 62 — Opportunities ................................................ 63 Areas to Monitor . 27 • High-Volume Applications ................................ 27 Updates . 65 • Micromachining and Microelectromechanical Systems .............................................................. 28 • Technology Migration between Performance- Viewpoints Features . 67 Dominant and Cost-Dominant Markets ............. 28 • Tactile Sensation for Human-Machine Interfaces ............................................................ 28 Abbreviations . 69 Detailed Contents Importance of the Technology Smart materials produce direct, inherent physical responses to signals such as temperature, voltage, pressure, magnetic fields, light, and so on. Though the mechanical behavior of an SM actuator often is unimpressive in isolation, the ability to use a very simple device to produce specific mechanical action in response to specific conditions or signals can dramatically improve the overall performance of a device. Designers can use SMs to simplify products, add features, improve performance, or increase reliability with relatively little mechanical complexity. Most SM markets and technologies are young and remain largely unexplored (piezoelectric materials are a notable exception), with only a few simple, derivative products on the market. Fortunate combinations of technology and market conditions can bring explosive growth in commercial activity, however, as medical applications of shape-memory alloys have shown in recent years. Most SM technologies will slowly enter the market as suppliers and technologies mature and as users gain familiarity with the materials. Several SM technologies have just begun to