A VIEW TO THE FUTURE

The future will mainly bring developments in the field of technical ceramics. On The Internet I came across a report with the title Fundamental Research Needs in Ceramics which listed the following subjects for working groups in a 1997-workshop and so is trendsetting for the future  

What new developments the future holds nobody knows for certain. In electronics people will try to miniaturise electric equipment even further. Non-functional, ceramic packaging will be converted into functional components. For this new ceramic materials are necessary, as are ways to process them. High-temperature superconductors will lead to magnetic levitation craft, cheap electricity and improved MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). 

Because the modern, quantitative approach to interface and colloid science is a relatively new development, a great deal remains to be done in terms of extending the basic ideas and concepts originating in the classic period of the science to include new information and theories. Not only the desire for improved theories, but technological innovation demands that our understand- 

TABLE 1.2. Some Important Areas of Surface and Colloid Science Inviting Future Research 

Surface energies of sohds, surface and interfadal tensions and the interfacial region, thermodynamics of colloidal systems, improved electrical double layer theory, adsorbed pol)mer layers and steric stabilization, relationships between surface energies and bulk properties 

Equilibrium and dynamic wetting and spreading processes, adhesion, physical adsorption, chemisorption and heterogeneous catalysis, spectroscopic and optical studies of surfaces, flow through porous media 

Measurement of forces between surfaces, effects of adsorbed layers, the role of solvation, attractive forces 

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The all-new type of tire contour was born from extensive R D efforts with a view to the future of tires. The inside of the tire consists of a main chamber in the center and subchambers on both... 

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With a view to the future revision and republication of the Pharmacopoeia, the following resolutions were adopted previously to the adjournment of the Convention. 

Ediger, M.D., Forrest, J.A. Dynamics near free surfaces and the glass transition in thin polymer films a view to the future. Macromolecules 47(2), 471-478 (2014)... 

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