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One Year Later: Material Science Breakthroughs

One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #16: Material Science Breakthroughs as part of my 30 Megatrends series. Time to grade myself.

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Recorded 2026-08-26. One year ago, in July 2025, I published Megatrend #16: Material Science Breakthroughs as part of my 30 Megatrends series. Time to grade myself.

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Megatrends One Year Later – #16: Material Science Breakthroughs – What I Predicted, and What’s Actually Happening (2026-08-26)

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TrendsMaterial Science BreakthroughsMaterials are becoming more functional, adaptive and engineered for properties that conventional materials could not provide.IndustriesManufacturing & IndustrialManufacturing is becoming an intelligent, adaptive system in which software, robotics, materials science and data increasingly define physical production.IndustriesConstruction & Real EstateThe built environment is becoming intelligent: designed in software, built with increasing automation and operated as a connected, energy-aware system.IndustriesEnergy & UtilitiesThe grid is shifting from centralized delivery toward a distributed, storage-rich, software-defined energy platform.IndustriesHealthcare, Pharma & Life SciencesHealthcare is moving from episodic treatment toward continuous prediction, personalization and accelerated biological discovery.DomainsAdvanced MaterialsNew materials, nanotechnology and engineered substances that make products lighter, stronger, smarter and more adaptive.DomainsCircular Economy & ResourcesResource stewardship, reuse, recovery and the redesign of products and systems around circular flows rather than linear waste.

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ARTICLE · Tue Aug 25Megatrends One Year Later – #16: Material Science Breakthroughs – What I Predicted, and What's Actually Happening
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Publish Date2026-08-26
Updated Date2026-09-18
Observed Date2026-08-26
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