Materials Research Laboratories

Administratively, the genesis of these Laboratories, which initially were called Interdisciplinary Research Laboratories and later. Materials Research Laboratories, involved many complications, most of them in Washington, not least when in 1972 responsibility for them was successfully transferred to the National Science Foundation (NSF). As Sproull cynically remarks To those unfamiliar with the workings of federal government (and especially Capitol Hill), transfer of a program sounds simple, but it is simple only if the purpose of transfer is to kill the program . 

The role of the Bell Labs metallurgists in the creation of the early transistors was clearly set out in a historical overview by the then director of the Materials Research Laboratory at Bell Labs, Scaflf (1970). 

A number of American research institutions and the people who shaped them have already featured in this book the creation of the Materials Research Laboratories Robert Mehl s influence on the Naval Research Laboratory and on Carnegie Institute of Technology Hollomon s influence on the GE laboratory Seitz s influence on the University of Illinois (and numerous other places) Carothers and Flory at the Dupont laboratory the triumvirate who invented the transistor and the atmosphere at Bell Laboratories that made this feat possible Stookey, glass-ceramics and the Corning Glass laboratory. I would like now to round off this list with an account of a most impressive laboratory that came to grief, and the man who shaped it. 

Advanced Materials Research Laboratory, Matsushita Research Institute Tokyo, Inc., 3-10-1 Higashimita, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214-8501, Japan... 

Kirchner, R. L. and Ripling, E. J., First Interim Report, Materials Research Laboratory, Richton Park, Illinois (1964)... 

The authors would like to acknowledge support from National Science Foundation and The Ohio State University Material Research Laboratory. Helpful discussions with present and past members of the research group are also greatfully acknowledged. 

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Department, Materials Research Laboratory, and Department of Chemical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106... 

Pennsylvania State University, Materials Research Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802... 

Acknowledgment is made to the Donors of the Petroleum Research Fund, administered by the American Chemical Society, and to the Materials Research Laboratory, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), for grants in support of this research. The National Science Foundation, through the Expedited Award for Novel Research at Stevens Institute, has enabled K.E.G. to develop the processing of such transition metal containing organometallic polymers. ... 

Alfred J. Baca, University of Illinois, Department of Chemistry, Materials Research Laboratory, Urbana, IL... 

Laboratoire des Verres et Ceramiques, UMR CNRS 6512, Universite de Rennes 1, Campus de Beaulieu, CS 74 205, F-35042 Rennes Cedex (France) tInstitute for Inorganic Chemistry, University of Munich, D-81377 Munich (Germany) Material Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106... 

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant NSF DMR-86-12860 (administered by the Materials Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois) and by Dow Chemical U.S.A. 

Materials Research Laboratory, SRI International, 333 Ravenswood Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025... 

Nano materials Research Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Technology, D.C.R. University of Science and Technology, Murthal, Sonipat, Haryana 131039, India. 

Department of Material Science and Engineering and F. Seitz Materials Research Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1304 West Green Street, Urbana, Illinois 61801, U.S.A... 

Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory... 

Current address Materials Research Laboratories, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia... 

C. N. Lovey, R. J. Spear and M. J. Wolfson, A Preliminary Assessment of NTO as an Insensitive High Explosive , MRL-TR-89-18, Materials Research Laboratory, Victoria, Australia. 

Our special thanks go to the Directors, Officers and Staff of the British Library Document Centre and the Libraries of the Universities of Lancaster, Leeds and York, UK and the Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi and the High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune, India without whose support this book would... 

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Materials Research Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, 61801... 

L.V. Wake and R.F. Brady, Formulating Infrared Coatings for Defence Applications, Materials Research Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia, 1993 Chem. Abstr., 123, 289699a). 

Figure 7.50 Schematic illustration of MCVD processing of optical fiber, including (a) tube setup, (b) deposition, (c) collapse, and (d) fiber drawing. Reprinted, by permission, from J. B. MacChesney, J. Mater. Ed., 11(14), 343 (1989). Copyright 1989 by Materials Research Laboratory.

Joseph, Babu, Materials Research Laboratory, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA... 

The erstwhile Explosives Research and Development Laboratory (ERDL), now High Energy Materials Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Pune, had undertaken a study on primary explosives with a view to synthesizing a series of new explosives, which are safer, powerful and free from the drawbacks of lead azide and MF. As a result of these sustained efforts, HEMRL has successfully synthesized and developed a new and safer initiatory explosive called basic lead azide (BLA). 

Redman, L.D., and Spear, R.J. (1983) Mercuric-5-Nitrotetrazole a possible replacement for lead azide in Australian ordnance. Part I an assessment of preparation methods. Materials Research Laboratory, Melbourne, Report No. MRL-R-901 Chem. Abstr., (1984) 100,194540. 

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