This issue of the High-tech Materials Technology Opportunity Engine (TOE) highlights significant advances in high-tech materials for a wide range of industrial applications. Featured innovations include recyclable liquid thermoplastic resins for advanced composite manufacturing, thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs) for sustainable, high-performance applications, and liquid metal conductive materials for stretchable electronics. The TOE also explores gas-atomized metal powders for high-precision additive manufacturing, high-thermal-conductivity ceramic substrates for power electronics, and doped alumina materials for high-performance catalysts.

Further developments include plant-based functional monomers for sustainable binder formulations, iridium oxide electrocatalysts for water electrolysis, and zwitterionic membranes for high-fouling industrial water treatment. The TOE also covers breathable multilayer protective composites designed to enhance worker safety, wheat-based cocoa substitute ingredients, and fiber-based closure solutions. In addition, it profiles ultra-clean silicon for next-generation quantum chips and quantum topological molecular engineering platforms for creating nontrivial electronic states.

Other featured technologies include photonic polymer skin for adaptive optical sensing, solid-state up-conversion materials for solar-driven ultraviolet (UV) generation, and self-regulating electrolyzers for stable solar fuel production. The issue also examines self-healing magnetoelectric materials for amphibious soft electronics, self-degrading polymeric materials for sustainable single-use plastics, and phase-change magneto-optical materials for thermal radiation control. The TOE also addresses questions such as:

• What are the significant innovations driving growth, material performance, resource efficiency, sustainability, and circularity?
• How can you gain intelligence on key technologies, products, processes, and applications influencing the growth of various materials across industries?
• Why are lightweight materials, bio-based materials, ceramics, smart materials, fibers, nanomaterials, responsive materials, polymers, woven & non-woven materials, polymers, plastics, and packaging materials poised for growth?