New materials developing

G. Pistoia (Ed.), Lithium Batteries, New Materials, Developments and Perspectives Industrial Chemistry Library, Volume 5, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1994. 

Matthew V. Tirrell (Co-Chair) is Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, where he served as Director of its Biomedical Engineering Institute. He received a B.S. from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts. His interests are in transport and interfacial properties of polymers, with particular emphasis on molecular-scale mechanical measurements, bioadhesion, and new materials development. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. 

When he interviewed with Meyer in 1926, Mark outlined a typically thorough program. He proposed a team of organic and physical chemists, and physicists who would evaluate the influence of structure on properties such as rigidity, elasticity, melting point, and water absorption. Work, he proposed, would shift toward new material development and into the manufacturing facilities to evaluate the effects of processing... 

Alamgir, M. Abraham, K. M. In Lithium Batteries New Materials, Developments and Perspectives, Industrial Chemistry Library 5 Pistoia, G., Ed. Elsevier New York, 1994 Chapter 3. 

SUDICRETE, the trade name of a new material developed by the Sulphur Development Institute of Canada (SUDIC) possesses two important properties that are not found in other sulfur concretes ... 

Many of the new materials developed by early humans were modeled on substances found in nature. The first alloys, for example, were little more than artificial copies of substances produced when fire, lightning, or some other natural source of energy caused the fusion of naturally occurring materials on the Earth s surface. Over time, however, people learned how to modify these processes to produce new alloys and other materials that were superior to those found in nature. This pattern has dominated materials research since the dawn of time. Many of the best new materials available today were created when scientists discovered how nature makes its composites and found new and better ways to duplicate those processes. One of the most exciting fields of materials research today involves the development of new biomaterials, substances similar to naturally occurring products found in living organisms that can be used in a host of new ways by medical workers. 

Nolas, G.S., Sharp, J., Goldsmid, H.J., 2001. Thermoelectrics Basic Principles and New Materials Developments. Springer Verlag, New York. 

R. Yazami, in G. Pistoia (ed.), Lithium Batteries—New Materials, Developments and Perspectives, Elesevier, London, 1994, pp. 49-91. 

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