Strategic Intelligence: Nanotechnology in Defense (2024)
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Strategic Intelligence: Nanotechnology in Defense (2024)
Summary
As a broad and ever-evolving field, nanotechnology has created vast opportunities for the development of different technologies, with myriad applications and uses. Concerned with minute technologies on a scale of 100 nanometers or less, known as the nanoscale, nanotechnology is the deliberate manipulation of structures to design, produce, and use new technologies in this nanoscale. The term nanotechnology encompasses a wide range of different materials with many different properties due to the unique size shape and structure of the different compounds. Chiefly among them come optical activity, electrical and thermal conductivity, resistance, or ability to act as a semiconductor, high tensile strength, and robust structure while remaining lightweight and compact, and differing chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) sensitivities, all of which depend on the nanomaterial itself. These properties can thus reduce the size of current technologies, while increasing efficiency, leading to better-built, more precise, and smarter products. Given the potential applications of nanosciences in defense, the technology is also posited by many to be of huge potential risk and danger to international security, geopolitical conflict, and even public health.
Since its conception, nanotechnology has been a field widely invested in on a global scale, from research and production of raw materials to their applications and implementations in complex systems and devices. Subsequently, the defense industry has adopted their use, as the diverse properties they offer provide great potential for improvement and innovation in all areas of the industry. China, India, the US, South Korea, and Iran are currently the world leaders in research and development, with China dominating the field. This report explores the drivers and incentives of investment and exploration in nanotechnologies for the aerospace and defense industries, as well as the trending direction the technology is taking in practical application. Ultimately, while some specific use cases are highlighted in this report, nanotechnology remains broadly in the experimental and tentative early stages, with limited commercialization, especially in the defense sphere.
Key Highlights
Summary
As a broad and ever-evolving field, nanotechnology has created vast opportunities for the development of different technologies, with myriad applications and uses. Concerned with minute technologies on a scale of 100 nanometers or less, known as the nanoscale, nanotechnology is the deliberate manipulation of structures to design, produce, and use new technologies in this nanoscale. The term nanotechnology encompasses a wide range of different materials with many different properties due to the unique size shape and structure of the different compounds. Chiefly among them come optical activity, electrical and thermal conductivity, resistance, or ability to act as a semiconductor, high tensile strength, and robust structure while remaining lightweight and compact, and differing chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) sensitivities, all of which depend on the nanomaterial itself. These properties can thus reduce the size of current technologies, while increasing efficiency, leading to better-built, more precise, and smarter products. Given the potential applications of nanosciences in defense, the technology is also posited by many to be of huge potential risk and danger to international security, geopolitical conflict, and even public health.
Since its conception, nanotechnology has been a field widely invested in on a global scale, from research and production of raw materials to their applications and implementations in complex systems and devices. Subsequently, the defense industry has adopted their use, as the diverse properties they offer provide great potential for improvement and innovation in all areas of the industry. China, India, the US, South Korea, and Iran are currently the world leaders in research and development, with China dominating the field. This report explores the drivers and incentives of investment and exploration in nanotechnologies for the aerospace and defense industries, as well as the trending direction the technology is taking in practical application. Ultimately, while some specific use cases are highlighted in this report, nanotechnology remains broadly in the experimental and tentative early stages, with limited commercialization, especially in the defense sphere.
Key Highlights
- Studies of emerging technological trends and their impact on critical mineral mining.
- Analysis of several countries with critical minerals reserves and their position in the global defense supply chain, along with an overview of government actions and regulations pertaining to the security-of-supply in critical minerals for defense.
- The key incentives for using nanotechnology in the defense sector suppliers face are covered. The investment and research & development opportunities for armed forces, suppliers, and institutional investors, across much of the defense value chain are covered. An overview of some of the nanotechologies most used in defense products is featured.
- Determine potential investment companies based on trend analysis and market projections.
- Gaining an understanding of the market challenges and opportunities surrounding the defense nanotechnologies theme.
- Understanding how spending on nanotechnology will fit into the overall defense market.
Table of Contents
48 Pages
- Executive Summary
- Players
- Technology Briefing
- Nanomaterials scale down properties associated with larger technology
- The defense context
- Nanomedicines
- Nanomaterials & structures
- Nanoelectronics
- Applications
- Trends
- Technology trends
- Macroeconomic trends
- Regulatory trends
- Industry Analysis
- Nanotechnology remains highly experimental
- Key challenges
- Geopolitical & ethical implications
- Technological hurdles
- Timeline
- Value Chain
- Nanomedicine
- Nanomaterials & structures
- Nanoelectronics
- Companies
- Public companies
- Private companies
- Sector Scorecards
- Aerospace, defense & security sector scorecard
- Who’s who
- Thematic screen
- Valuation screen
- Risk screen
- Glossary
- Further Reading
- GlobalData reports
- Our Thematic Research Methodology
- About GlobalData
- Contact Us
- List of Tables
- Table 1: Applications
- Table 2: Technology trends
- Table 3: Macroeconomic trends
- Table 4: Regulatory trends
- Table 5: Public companies
- Table 6: Private companies
- Table 7: Glossary
- Table 8: GlobalData reports
- List of Figures
- Figure 1: The nanotechnology ecosystem
- Figure 2: The nanoscale
- Figure 3: The US DoD’s nanotechnology program component research fields
- Figure 4: Research interest in nanotechnology has increased in the last 13 years
- Figure 5: The nanotechnology story
- Figure 6: The nanotechnology value chain
- Figure 7: The nanomedicine value chain
- Figure 8: The nanomaterials & structures value chain
- Figure 9: The nanoelectronics value chain
- Figure 10: Who does what in the aerospace, defense & security space?
- Figure 11: Thematic screen
- Figure 12: Valuation screen
- Figure 13: Risk screen
- Figure 14: Our five-step approach for generating a sector scorecard
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