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3. The Role of Materials in Future Industries
Pages 13-18

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... Nanoparticle materials are attractive for nanoabrasive polishing, for highly targeted drug delivery, and even for cosmetics such as sun block. Nanohole materials find application as molecular sieves and nanograined materials, i.e., small-grain-size, three-dimensional materials that exhibit significant increases in strength.
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... OOnm Material with small grain size, <1OOnm Nanoscaie naultilayers Material containing nanoscale features Carbon structures, e.g., C60, nanotubes, etc.
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... New materials and approaches to overcome these limitations and provide linearity include photonic band gap materials and "holey" fibers. Fabrication of holey fibers fibers designed with tiny holes along their length is difficult.
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... COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE Computational approaches have ma(le tremendous progress at all length scales relevant to materials. These inclucle the macroscale (human dimensions)
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... Comments from the Speakers "Computational approaches to simulate materials and anticipate behavior enable a modern approach to materials design, discovery, and optimization." Sharon Glotzer, University of Michigan "The enormous advances in optical communication systems over the past 5 years are largely due to materials advances on many fronts." Rod Alferness, Lucent Technologies "Nanomaterials are an exciting but very disparate class of materials which come in an ever increasing array of forms with a wide variety of applications." Julia Weertman, Northwestern University "Biomaterials encompass the traditional bioengineering of medical implants to newer areas of drug delivery, tissue engineering, materials for array technologies, microfluidics, and hybrid materials." David Tirrell, California Institute of Technology 17
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  • david tirrell
  • holey fibers
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  • array technologies
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  • rod alferness
  • nanoparticle materials
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  • allowing telephone

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