#Absorbing Materials

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Japan Near Infrared Absorbing Materials Market

Japan near-infrared absorbing materials market size was valued at USD 43.14 million in FY2023, which is expected to reach USD 97.4 million in FY2031, with a CAGR of 10.7% for the forecast period between FY2024 and FY2031. Near-infrared absorbing material has a specific structural configuration where the excitation of electrons leads to the absorption of infrared light. The functionality of sophisticated and advanced instruments is prominently enhanced by near-infrared (NIR) absorbing materials integrated into these smart devices. Incorporating materials enables significant features like thermoregulation, spectroscopy measurement, energy-efficient applications, etc. NIR absorbing coatings are decisively being employed in building construction materials, which assist in regulating surface temperatures, reduce energy consumption, and contribute to sustainable building practices.

Near Infrared (NIR) absorbing materials successfully improves imaging contrast and specific treatments like photothermal therapy and fluorescence. Medical domain practices such as skin treatment, surgery, spectroscopy, thermography, etc. are accomplished using NIR-absorbing materials. NIR absorbing materials are used for preparing absorbing dyes that are progressively used as photothermal conversion materials, thermal media materials, etc., which can effectively work in different absorption spectrum ranges.

Organic Solar Cell Applications Augment Near Infrared Absorbing Materials

The photovoltaic performance of tandem organic solar cells (TOSCs) by effective design using near-infrared absorbing acceptor materials. These promising absorbing acceptors exhibit superior broad absorption and high photovoltaic performance, substantially leading to constructing the rear cell in high-performance TOSCs. Lightweight, flexibility, and low-cost solution processability are prominent advantages of TOSCs that have effectively considered a potential application as a reliable, clean energy source.

The solar project supported by the Ministry of the Environment (MoE) feed-in tariff (FIT) has estimated that in 2022 Japan will have a 6.5 GW solar market. The data published by the Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association estimates that the country has shipped around 3,536 MW of solar modules from January to September 2022, with only 3,520 MW contributed to the people of Japan. The incredible shift towards renewable sources has significantly generated global opportunities for near-infrared absorbing materials to implement in solar cells, which will augment the market in Japan.

Production and Synthesis of Infrared Absorbing Materials to Drive the Digital World

Near-infrared absorbing materials are considered important in the development of advanced digital cameras and imaging devices. The production of NIR materials involves complex synthesis process, sophisticated equipment, and advanced monitoring control. These crucial processes account for huge cost of materials, which it creates a significant challenge for the widespread usage of NIR materials in more sectors.

NIR-absorbing white material comprises of copper pyrophosphate which is produced using wet synthesis process where an aqueous solution of a divalent copper compound and a metal pyrophosphate is formed as a supersaturated solution. The synthesis process is accompanied by stirring, mixing, filtration, acid treatment, washing, and drying, which makes the manufacturing process complex and costly. However, heat-absorbing glass is formed by NIR-absorption of iron components and can be manufactured inexpensively, where these glasses are substantially used in shielding window glass from solar radiation.

Near Infrared Absorbing Dyes Revolutionize the Optical Communication Industry

The extensive potential applications of near-infrared (NIR) absorbing organic dyes have gained considerable value in sectors like biology, optical sensors, optical communications, etc. Heptamethine cyanine (HMC) is proven very effective as an organic dye that subsequently absorbs NIR light with excellent optical properties like selective absorption in the specific NIR range and a high molar absorption coefficient. Novel HMC dye with trifluoromethyl groups delivers a more red-shifted absorption wavelength and improved photostability characteristics that prominently enhances the communication systems.

According to greenfield investment data reported by FDI Markets in Financial Times in 2021, the communication sector in Japan showed approx—20% enhancement in new projects with a growth rate of 81.8%. According to the reported data, in June 2021 a tech-company has invested USD 1,000 million which instigated the construction of large-scale data center in Saitama, Japan with a huge capacity of 100 MW. Likewise, a phenomenal opportunity has been accomplished for near-infrared absorbing dyes market in Japan with the growing telecommunication industry.

The extensive applications of NIR absorbing materials are propelling the global market size growth with huge opportunities in the respective domains and countries.

Impact of COVID-19

The outbreak of COVID-19 has aggravated the worldwide healthy living of people, where the rapid dispersion of infection severely impacted economic, social, and health infrastructure. Reduction in consumer demand and prevailing uncertainties led to the downfall of products that incorporate near-infrared absorbing materials, such as automotive, electronics, real estate, etc. NIR-spectroscopy is an inexpensive technique for profiling COVID-19 disease that utilizes NIR-absorbing materials that are progressively used in the coatings of medical devices. It significantly gained momentum during the pandemic as the healthcare sector grew tremendously with the indispensable need for healthcare facilities. Subsequently using NIR absorbing materials, this spectroscopic method is used to authenticate COVID-19 vaccines, which is substantially recognized as a rapid and effective technique. Potentially, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, the market for near-infrared absorbing materials was rising effectively to authenticate COVID-19 vaccines which generated huge market for near-infrared absorbing materials in Japan.

Impact of Russia-Ukraine War

The invasion of Russia on Ukraine has created an unprecedented impact across various sectors leading to instability in sequential investment. The aggression has profoundly affected the supply chain relationship, raw materials incumbency, etc. The NIR absorbing materials significantly got hit to implement in manufacturing essential infrared equipment that substantially have applications in the various healthcare sectors. The harsh sanctions imposed on Russia has enforced Japan to reduce their trade with Russia severely impacted the trade dynamics of technological materials and sharing of advanced technologies for NIR absorbing materials. But with the growing market commodities in the healthcare sector, demand of NIR absorbing materials increases in Japan which is encouraged by companies to develop indigenous NIR absorbing materials that subsequently augment the huge market potential in Japan.

Japan Near Infrared Absorbing Materials Market: Report Scope

“Japan Near Infrared Absorbing Materials Market Assessment, Opportunities and Forecast, FY2017-FY2031” is a comprehensive report by Markets and data, providing in-depth analysis and qualitative & quantitative assessment of the current state of the Japan near-infrared absorbing materials market, industry dynamics, and challenges. The report includes market size, segmental shares, growth trends, COVID-19 and Russia-Ukraine war impact, opportunities, and forecast between FY2024 and FY2031. Additionally, the report profiles the leading players in the industry mentioning their respective market share, business model, competitive intelligence, etc.

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[aingeal98]

As a Cass stan I look at all the trauma and pain she's gone through and it makes me want to eat glass. However...

When she looks like this it also makes me clap and cheer because I know that Cass having the absolute worst time of her life usually leads to some of my favourite character moments for her.

[agentc0rn]

 Níðhǫggr and Yggdrasil - ZA

Worked on this late last night lol…here’s my take on the A pokemon...I tried to mimic the logo style but it went a bit off than expected.

-> Arbordrasil (concept art, typing, formes, inspiration behind the design)

Disclaimer: this original pokemon was made simply for enjoyment in entertaining the idea of what legends z-a might be. Not meant to be "legitimate" or serious prediction.

Dark bg below:

[elodieunderglass]

It's gonna be a solid while before I stop whispering "not the LEAST of anything" to myself every time I see a least weasel.

(In reference to His Delicious Materials)

this line sprang to my head fully formed parallel with Bee being a least weasel. I’m glad it makes you even half as happy as it makes me.

At the time of thinking of it, I was sure that this was an obvious reference to the Tolkien media estate - “don’t call me a halfling, I’m not half of anything!”

… and then in one of those cold dark chills of the night I realised that nope, pretty sure that’s not canon, it’s from the Bagginshield fandom, and the Bagginshield fandom alone. A happy little subfandom of LotR that manages to blissfully ignore how bad the Peter Jackson films are, and how queer the source writings aren’t, in favor of a rich independent fanon involving lots of highly detailed flower language. I don’t know who originated it or where, but I’m pretty sure that’s the home ecosystem.

In which case Bee’s line, by being either a second cousin once removed or a first cousin twice removed from any relevance to source material, is once again original fiction!

[serpentface]

Do psychotropic drugs and/or ritual play a role in any of the blightseed cultures? A pretty broad question, lol

Yeah that’s a very broad question, the answer is about as much as it tends to play roles in real history. Alcohol is pretty ubiquitous (outside of cultures that abstain from intoxicants) and used for a variety of purposes, opioids are commonly used in some parts for pain relief or recreational purposes, stimulants (usually in mild, natural forms) are used to provide extra energy, and hallucinogens are most commonly used as part of a larger religious framework (rather than for recreational purposes). Any more elaborate answer kinda has to be case by case in a certain culture or part of the setting.

I'll just take this as an opportunity to talk about the one established sect that pretty much REVOLVES around psychoactive use. This is the Scholarly Order of the Root, which is a sort of mystery religion + elite community of scholars who currently occupy the Ur-Tree and its forest in the far southern Lowlands (southeast of Imperial Wardin, on the same land mass).

The Ur-Tree is the obligatory Huge Fucking Fantasy Tree (and its surrounding forest). It’s a mass of vegetation about a mile tall and almost as old as Plant Life Itself, its upper branches are primeval plants, which become more modern the nearer they get to the ground (and each 'level' holds tiny ecosystems, some containing descendants of LONG-extinct arthropods/other small animals). Its lowest branches and the surrounding forest are contemporary plant life, and all is connected and protected by an incomparably MASSIVE fungal mycelium network (which is itself a living god).

A lot of the Scholars' more secretive practices revolve around experimentation with substance use with the goal of expanding the Mind and transcending the body to fully connect to the Dreamlands, and they have a supply chain of traders and mercenaries called Rootrunners who traffic substances into the Lowlands. Most of their psychoactive use is in a very intentional capacity and not just like, for fun, but a LOT of them are just straight up addicted to cocaine (in the form of alchemically refined bruljenum, which is used for practical purposes of its stimulant effect during long hours of work).

All known psychoactives are desirable for experimentation (particularly hallucinogens), with each having properties that either allow expansion of the Mind, transcendence of the body, or outright divine communion. Their effects are logged in great detail and interpreted to form the basis of the Scholars' understanding of the natural world and reality itself.

The most important substance is Ur-Root, which is root matter from subterranean levels of the Ur-Tree that have both their own intrinsic psychoactive substances and a very, very high concentration of living god mycelium. The tree root contains DMT and the mycelium has its own wholly unique effects (being an actual living god). They alchemically refine it into a purer, more potent form, and use it to expand beyond the body and directly commune with the Giants, a group of entities they have identified as the only true gods.

An Ur-Root trip starts off with minor visual distortion, which turns into shifting fractals that slowly obscure the vision. Eventually the senses are entirely taken over by a 'tunnel' of rapidly shifting fractals and geometries. In a complete trip, the experiencer gets a sense that they have been pushed through a membrane and entered another realm, finding themselves in a distinct experiential Space.

At this point they may encounter entities which communicate to them in a language impossible to describe but wholly understood. These beings are understood to be the Giants, or at least aspects of the Giants that mortals are capable of comprehending (they often take familiar tutelary forms of the Mantis or the Snake, or appear resembling the same type of sophont that the experiencer is, all composed of ever-shifting geometries). The experiencer often feels a sense of unconditional and endless love from these beings, though the Giants may be more hostile and may appear in the form of the Trickster (usually a cultural figure regarded as malicious, be it an animal or otherwise) in a bad trip.

(^Up until this point, this has mostly just been a DMT 'breakthrough' experience ft. 'machine elves' and the like).

They are then removed from this space and returned to something that feels like the real world, but is nearly unrecognizable. They have a sense of rapidly moving through time, and will usually see 'the spires' towards the beginning, which just so happen to look like this:

(source + some context via Implication- the spires are exactly what this art is depicting)

The experiencer continues to move across an unfathomable amount of time, occasionally 'seeing' other such flashes of unfamiliar landscapes and creatures, and yet also being devoid of all their senses, the 'seeing' is pure, unfiltered experience. There is a sense of interconnectedness with all life, and that one has become the forest (or even Life) itself. The sense of time is wildly distorted, the trip lasts only about 5 minutes but feels like an eternity and is understood as literal hundreds of millions of years.

The experiencer has usually lost any remaining sense of Self and individual consciousness during this phase (in which case this time distortion is usually a neutral or even peaceful experience), but some retain a fraction of their identity, and find themselves trapped and conscious while experiencing what feels like eternity (which can be LIFE-CHANGINGLY distressing, even after the fact).

(^This latter part of the trip is the effects of the Ur-Tree fungus).

The trip ends with a sense of rushing through the ground and back up into one's body, at which point they will abruptly return to their senses and consciousness. The details are then immediately retrieved via interview and recorded in immense detail. The whole experience is understood as having been full comprehension of the Dreamlands, communion with the Giants, and then a tour through the act of creation.

This is done as part of the initiatory practice into the inner mystery-religion of the scholars, and as needed for study by high scholar-priests. It is not taken lightly, both as it is absolute communion with the gods and reality, and in that it can be a very, very difficult experience. People who have gone through this often walk away with a permanently shifted perspective, often in a positive and/or comforting way- a sense of interconnectedness with all life, a peace with the concept of death, seeing less of a point in individual ego and the concept of Self, and comfort in the sense of divine love they (may have) experienced. This heavily influences the philosophy of the Scholars and has had effects by proxy in the religious worldviews of the region.

Details of this experience are closely guarded, and initiates are given absolutely no prior knowledge and expectations for their trip. This is seen as a necessity- their naivety will allow for a true, unfiltered experience, and can be used to gauge whether they should or should not be accepted. Those that have a distinctly bad trip upon initiation may be assumed to have been 'rejected' by the giants and thus denied full priesthood, though this largely depends on How they interpret their distressing trip- those who identify this as a test and harsh lesson in a journey to enlightenment may be accepted (as this is how fully initiated scholar-priests interpret and handle their bad trips).

This inner priesthood is only a small fraction of the Scholarly Order, and its greater function is as a hub of education and repository of knowledge, and Scholar-trained doctors can provide some of the best medical care available in the setting ('best medical care in this setting' only means so much but it's pretty solid, relatively speaking). Only a chosen few Scholars ever get to commune with the Ur-Root, and most of the divine secrets revealed in the process are kept hidden (though they indirectly influence the politics and worldview of the entire order).

[freshlybakedfandoms]

"what radicalized you" my parents and teachers taught me that everyone deserves to be treated with basic kindness and respect because you never know what someone is dealing with

[bonebabbles]

Ill get into this later but the Star Flower x Clear Sky romance shit is legitimately some of the most rancid canon ship stuff in WC without full out having an on-screen Bramblesquirrel argument. I can't believe people legitimately take away that Star Flower has any canonical agency here and try to spin this like girlboss shit

You understand that what Clear Sky likes about this very young adult is that she "obeys" him, subjects herself to bad conditions, and tells him that she's soso loyal that she promises to never leave, yes? While holding up her 1 absolutely insignificant ""betrayal"" as morally equivalent to Clear Sky's murders, beatings, and starvations?

Played as a manipulation this would be interesting. But it's not. She is basically an 18 year old who thinks she's so awful she deserves a serial killer, while his mouth starts watering that his reward has finally come. In their second interaction.

[icewindandboringhorror]

I got these shoes from someone recently but thought they were way too plain looking, so I set out on a quest to customize them with some sharpies and charms and miscellaneous ribbon I had in my craft drawers. Mostly sky themed (clouds, rainbows, rain, stars, etc.) because that's my favorite aesthetic, but I had to include some cat imagery as well, of course lol.

[wormtoxin]

for the record my disco elysium voices are The Wretch, Trivia, Cultural Critique, Marxist Facsimile, Poetics, Hound Brain, Etymology and The Witch

[ansburg]

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

Rebecca A. Brown. 'Of Radioactive Sprites and Diminutive Tyrants: Hammer’s Monstrous Children' + Dustin Freeley, 'The Monstrous Child Replacement and Repetition in The Shining' from Monstrous Children and Childish Monsters

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Engineers develop salty gel that could harvest water from desert air

Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineers have synthesized a superabsorbent material that can soak up a record amount of moisture from the air, even in desert-like conditions. As the material absorbs water vapor, it can swell to make room for more moisture. Even in very dry conditions, with 30% relative humidity, the material can pull vapor from the air and hold in the moisture without leaking. The water could then be heated and condensed, then collected as ultra-pure water. The transparent, rubbery material is made from hydrogel, a naturally absorbent material that is also used in disposable diapers. The team enhanced the hydrogel's absorbency by infusing it with lithium chloride—a type of salt that is known to be a powerful dessicant. The researchers found they could infuse the hydrogel with more salt than was possible in previous studies. As a result, they observed that the salt-loaded gel absorbed and retained an unprecedented amount of moisture, across a range of humidity levels, including very dry conditions that have limited other material designs.

Read more.

[sickfreaksirkay]

i was born for a beautiful life of saprobiontic nutrition but i have to have this stupid human body instead

[zytes]

8.4.23

[hungriesttable]

if I had a nickel for every time I read a random shonen jump series with an autistic MC who I was NOT expecting at all I would have two nickels. which is not a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice (should happen more)

[deadrlngers]

me coded