BCC Research’s just published report Opioid Drugs: Global Markets to 2023 provides a comprehensive overview of the opioid market as well as the market for abuse prevention technologies. This edited excerpt provides an overview of a few of these emerging technologies.

Materials that are able to store latent and sensible energy in the form of light, heat, electricity or hydrogen and exhibit reversibility are known as energy-exchanging smart materials. Thermal energy is stored as a change in internal energy of a material as latent heat, thermochemical, sensible heat or a combination of these.

Industry 4.0 concepts are streamlining the factory floor. Machine vision technologies – the giving of manufacturing equipment visual inspection capabilities – is an emerging technology that, as this excerpt from a recent BCC Research report suggests, is being widely adopted on assembly lines to perform inspections and to ensure high quality of workmanship.