Issue 87

Nanotech Magazine – Issue #87 (May 2026)

Nanotech Magazine is published by Future Markets, focusing on nanotechnology developments, market analysis, and commercial applications.

This month’s flagship feature delivers a comprehensive market analysis of the global titanium dioxide (TiO₂) industry — the world’s most important white pigment and one of the highest-volume inorganic specialty chemicals, now passing through one of its most disruptive periods of consolidation, regulatory upheaval and geographic realignment in decades.

Titanium Dioxide Market Focus includes:

• Market sizing and forecasts for both the commodity pigment and the higher-margin nanomaterial segments, with growth rates to the mid-2030s and the global production-versus-capacity picture
• The two-by-two structure of the industry — rutile versus anatase grades, and the chloride versus sulfate manufacturing routes — and what it means for competitive positioning
• Demand analysis across coatings, plastics, paper and the long tail of specialty applications, with a regional breakdown led by Asia-Pacific
• Supply-side restructuring: aggressive Western capacity rationalisation and plant closures set against continued Chinese capacity expansion, rising exports and proliferating antidumping measures
• The increasingly decisive role of feedstock integration and titanium-ore control as competitive variables
• Regulatory deep dive: the removal of TiO₂ as a permitted food additive (E171) in Europe and the long-running inhalation-carcinogen classification dispute
• The nanomaterials dimension — where TiO₂ becomes a high-growth functional material:
  • Ultraviolet protection in cosmetics and mineral sunscreens
  • Photocatalysis for self-cleaning surfaces, air and water purification, and antimicrobial coatings
  • Energy applications including dye-sensitised and perovskite solar cells and battery-anode chemistry
  • High-purity electronics-grade and antimicrobial medical-surface applications
• Manufacturing routes for nano-grade material — sol-gel, flame pyrolysis and hydrothermal synthesis
• Sustainability and circularity as emerging points of competitive differentiation
• Ten detailed profiles of the leading producers across China, the United States, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom
• A consolidated producer capacity table

Also in this issue:

• Latest nanotech business news, investments, commercial agreements and funding rounds
• Nanomaterials in healthcare — antibacterial wound dressings and medical-grade nanotechnology
• Lithium extraction, critical-mineral recovery and battery recycling, plus domestic silicon-anode battery manufacturing
• Post-silicon chip integration, single-walled carbon nanotube production scale-up and new manufacturing facilities
• Flexible peel-and-stick solar films and high-performance coatings for energy efficiency and fire resilience
• Graphene product news — marine and propeller coatings, defence contracts, energy storage for AI data centres, low-carbon concrete and biogas-to-graphene production
• Graphene strategic deals — acquisitions, licensing agreements, partnerships and capital raises

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