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10th place: New materials. They have improved properties such as greater strength or can heal or clean themselves. These include graphenes, carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles and piezoelectric materials. They are used in displays, sensors, medical technology and energy storage systems, for example, and will be worth between 0.2 and 0.5 trillion US dollars worldwide by 2025. Nanomedical drugs could potentially be used for the targeted treatment of around 20 million cancer patients.