Materials in the New Millennium

Responding to Society's Needs

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 2001
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9780309170475
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This book details the forum that was held by the National Materials Advisory Board at the National Academy of Sciences. The purpose of this forum was to bring the importance of materials to the attention of policy makers and to promote interactions between policy makers and the materials community. Four key themes were addressed: the critical role of materials in advancing technology and enhancing the nations economy, security, and health, industrial and societal needs that will require materials development in the new millennium. Materials research areas with the greatest potential for meeting those needs, and federal and industrial research initiatives that can help the materials community meet those needs. To help focus this discussion, special sessions were convened to address the current and future roles of materials in four selected areas: information technology, health and biotechnology, national security, and energy and the environment.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
• NATIONAL MATERIALS ADVISORY BOARD
• Preface
• Contents
• Keynote Address
• Setting the Scene
• Recent Studies and Symposia
• The Role of Materials in Information Technology
• The Role of Materials in Health and Biotechnology
• The Role of Congress
• The Role of Materials in National Security
• Materials, Jobs, and the Economy
• The Role of Materials in Energy and the Environment
• Agenda
• Exhibits
• Participants