AFM Optical Platform Market Trends

Growth Drivers

• Demand in personalized medicines - Personalized medicine seeks to customize care for each patient according to their specific genetic composition and illness profile. By examining the differences in cells across individuals, AFM can assist researchers in finding possible biomarkers for illness diagnosis and therapy choices.
  
  AFM may be utilized to look at the processes by which some cancer cells become resistant to the chemicals used in chemotherapy. For example, Advent International declared in February 2024 that listed Suven Pharma and privately held Cohance Lifescience will merge to become the first-ever private equity-led listed contract manufacturing business.

• Advancement in AFM technology - Owing to the automation features, AFM technology is becoming increasingly accessible to users. This enables a large number of researchers the ones with zero knowledge of microscopy techniques to benefit from AFM technology. Thus, the advancement in AFM technology is set to propel the market growth.

Challenges

• Limited scalability - There is no doubt about the huge potential of the AFM technology. The scalability of the AFM technologies for high throughput evaluation and extensive sample screening is hindered by data processing, automation capabilities as well as image speed. This limits the use of AFM for specific studies and small-scale investigations, which makes it impossible to comply with high-speed investigation requirements or industrial applications.

• Lack of skilled professionals is to hinder the market growth in the forecast period

• Damage to samples owing to contact mode AFM to hamper the market growth in the projected period