The Functional Materials segment manufactures specialty products and solutions.
The Functional Materials segment deals with specialty, thermal and adhesive papers, and film.
The GSG multilayer nanoshells, composed of a silica-coated gold nanosphere surrounded by a gold shell layer, are designed to be the functional material of the sensor because of their attractive optical properties.
The High Functional Materials and Components segment produces wires and cables, semiconductor and display-related materials, circuit boards and materials, specialty steels, magnetic materials and components, and high grade casting components and materials.
Carbon-based material is one kind of the most important functional materials because of its unique electromagnetic, thermodynamical, and mechanical properties [1 3] that exhibit potential applications in many areas such as drug delivery, hydrogen storage, junction device, and sensors.
Meanwhile, carbon nanotubes [CNTs] have been one of the most advanced functional materials because of their superior electronic property, good thermal/chemical stability, high mechanical strength, and large surface area [7 9].
The Electronic and Functional Materials segment consists of two businesses: Dow Electronic Materials and Functional Materials.
Polysaccharides and the related carbohydrate polymers are attracting much attention because of their potential for the applications as new functional materials in many research fields such as pharmaceutics, foods, medicines, tissue engineering, and cosmetics.
In modern organisms, DNA is the major genetic material and protein is the major functional material, both seeming indispensible.
However, the discovery and optimization of such functional materials are great challenges because they are still hampered by material inherencies and thermodynamic limits.
