Adhesives are materials applied between two substrates (both metallic and nonmetallic substances) for gluing or bonding purposes. Today, adhesives have replaced bolts and rivets in several applications such as buildings, automobiles, and aerospace. Adhesives provide scope for innovating the design and shape of products. They are widely used in the automobile industry to make lightweight and fully efficient vehicles.

Over the last few years, personal care products have become part and parcel of consumer’s life. It includes array of product such as soaps, liquid soaps, hair gel, hair oil, shampoos, anti-aging face creams, sunscreen products and others. Chemicals used in personal care products range from basic metallic salts and fatty acids used in ordinary bath soaps to the high-end cosmeceuticals that offer beautifying properties of cosmetics with useful benefits of pharmaceuticals and chemicals.

Intravenous (IV) therapy helps to deliver medications, fluids, and other nutrients directly into the body through veins. IV therapy is used during lifesaving therapeutic treatment and in wellness treatment. Since ancient times, blood therapy has been around, and blood has been viewed as a therapeutic substance. However, lack of proper understanding of blood types, infectious agents, and the absence of ideal materials such as plastics held back IV therapy for centuries. Later, IV therapy became the fastest way of delivering blood products, medications, vitamins, or other vital fluids. IV therapy is usually provided to the patient with the help of an intravenous catheter, either through an injection with a syringe or infusion.

Oral health is a vital part of overall general health, and therefore, good oral health is indicative of overall wellness. Most diseases start from the oral site and spread to the entire body. Although some of these oral infections are preventable, some are not, and therefore, taking care of oral health is of paramount importance. The lack of proper oral hygiene accelerates the growth of microbes and causes various dental disorders, such as halitosis and dental caries.

Oleochemicals are chemicals derived from plant and animal oils. Oleochemicals include the formation of basic oleochemical substances like fatty acids, fatty alcohols, glycerine, methyl esters, and others. Intermediate chemical substances produced from the basic oleochemical substances include alcohol ethoxylates, alcohol sulfates, alcohol ether sulfates, quaternary ammonium salts, monoacylglycerols, diacylglycerols, structured triacylglycerols, sugar esters, and other oleochemical products. Oleochemicals are biodegradable, eco-friendly, and less toxic. The major oleochemicals are fatty acids, fatty alcohols, methyl esters, and glycerines, which are referred to as basic oleochemicals.

Nanofiltration (NF) is a membrane filtration-based process or liquid-separation technology that uses membranes with nanometer-sized pores to remove dissolved contaminants. NF membranes have pore sizes ranging from 1-10 nanometers, which is smaller than membranes used in microfiltration and ultrafiltration. However, the size of NF membranes is larger than RO membranes. NF membranes offer high rejection of multivalent ions (such as calcium) and low rejection of monovalent ions (such as chloride). The nanofiltration technology is used to recycle wastewater due to high flux rates and relatively lower energy consumption than RO technology. In addition, NF is often employed in the manufacturing process for pharmaceuticals, textiles, dairy products, and baked goods.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) includes various products like gloves, face masks, surgical gowns, and more. There is always a huge demand for PPE materials across the globe due to the developing healthcare infrastructure in developing countries and the increased requirement for safety measures in healthcare setups. In a few cases, the demand for PPEs is due to exceptional factors like disease outbreaks, pandemics, and epidemics. The world is exposed to multiple outbreaks and other disastrous infections. One such event occurred in 2019, which started as a simple respiratory infection, and later spread to more than 190 countries and killed millions of people across the globe.

According to BIS Research, next-generation oncology devices and solutions comprise devices and software leveraging emerging technologies to aid in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of various types of cancer. Emerging technologies refer to technologies that are novel, minimally invasive, and are capable of specifically targeting the tumor cells while sparing healthy tissue.

Immunotherapies help in harnessing the body’s immune system to target and destroy cancer. For the past few decades, immunotherapies have been used for the treatment of cancer, and continuous research is going on for further studies. There are four types of immunotherapies (cell-based) that are currently in use, and they are illustrated as follows.

Endoscopy: According to the National Cancer Institute endoscopy is defined as “a procedure that uses an endoscope to examine the inside of the body. An endoscope is a thin, tube-like instrument with a light and a lens for viewing. It may also have a tool to remove tissue to be checked under a microscope for signs of disease.”  Capsule Endoscopy: According to Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (MFMER), capsule endoscopy is defined as, “a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. A capsule endoscopy camera sits inside a vitamin-size capsule you swallow. As the capsule travels through your digestive tract, the camera takes thousands of pictures that are transmitted to a recorder you wear on a belt around your waist’.