Though it looks like a modest dust mask, the N95 is a triumph of materials science.
Surprisingly, few companies for whom materials science is their bread-and-butter have yet picked up on the techniques.
Ankit Kumar, a materials science and engineering graduate student at UCLA Engineering was the paper's second author.
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D. in mechanical engineering, Raade was working at a Silicon Valley materials science company called Symyx in 2009.
Critics like Anthony DeArdo , a materials science professor at the University of Pittsburgh, dismiss superhard steel as impractical.
The United States has strong advantages in fields such as materials science, and high-tech start-ups in these areas can prosper.
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Her background and experience covers a range of different fields and skills from chemistry to (bio)materials science and microfluidic devices.
STM, which now exists in dozens of variants, is a vital research tool in such fields as materials science, nanotechnology and microbiology.
The company introduced me to the fine folks at Edmonds Community College (north of Seattle) that have a terrific Materials Science program.
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Really early-stage science projects that have a lot of materials science risk or long-term capital intensity risk are going to be tougher to fund.
The Center for Computational Materials Science and Engineering Data is an effort by ASM International to define protocols collecting, disseminating, and managing materials data.
The discovery of quasicrystals in effect, three-dimensional Penrose tiles has revolutionised materials science.
He led the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc from 2000 to 2005 in addition to serving as president of the Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering at Zagazig University.
The research, which was completed in conjunction with scientists from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology ( Empa) is published in the journal Nature.
To make the machine commercial strength and add depth to his materials science knowledge, he brought in Weinberg, his onetime chemical engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology.
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"I believe this is a game-changer invention to improve the efficiency of LCD displays, " said Yang Yang, a professor of materials science at UCLA Engineering and principal investigator on the research.
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Materials science provides the perfect analogy for this problem.
Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
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Symyx got its start in 1994, the brainchild of Peter Schultz, a chemist who several years earlier at the University of California, Berkeley hit on the idea of applying the techniques of rapid drug-screening to materials science.
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We are confident that our competitive advantages in materials science and deposition technologies, as well as our know-how in digital imaging, will enable us to capitalize on those opportunities and extend our leadership in key growth markets.
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One of those leading the reaction against carbon nanotubes (so-called, because their dimensions are measured in nanometres, or billionths of a metre) is Reshef Tenne, head of materials science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Second, disruptive new business models are overwhelmingly likely to be hybrids that bring together at least two different innovations in areas that include product design, supply chain organization, retailing models, materials science research, manufacturing and organizational effectiveness.
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"The uniforms we have today are not so different from the ones we had in Vietnam, which are not so different from the ones in Custer's day, " says Ned Thomas , MIT materials science professor and director of the ISN.
In our eighth annual E-Gang (our group of tech innovators to watch), we present the masters of robotic innovation--entrepreneurs and researchers who are fusing advances in biomechanics, software, sensor technology, materials science and computing to create new generations of robotic assistants.
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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Romney says that as a nation, the United States is going to have to start investing in energy technologies, fuel technologies, materials science and other basic areas that will help the country rid itself of dependency on foreign oil in the same way that it has historically invested in the space program and health care.
Nexia is tackling a materials-science conundrum that has stumped even DuPont for 20 years:how to synthesize spider silk.
While gadget hounds delighted in the new iPad, materials-science geeks lamented the continuing dominance of power-hungry liquid-crystal displays that use heavy pieces of glass.
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