Advancing Materials Research (1987) Peter A. Psaras and H. Dale Langford, editors, National Academy of Engineering and National Academy of Sciences, with the participation of the National Materials Advisory Board and the Solid State Sciences Committee, National Research Council Front Matter i-xvi Advances in Material Research and Development 1-24 Materials Research Laboratories: The Early Years 25-34 Materials Research Laboratories: Reviewing the First Twenty-five Years 35-48 Progress and Prospects in Metallurgical Research 49-110 Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Metals 111-130 Condensed-Matter Physics and Materials Research 131-150 Quasi-Periodic Crystals: A Revolution in Crystallography 151-160 New and Artificially Structured Electronic and Magnetic Materials 161-176 Materials Research in Catalysis 177-202 The Role of Chemistry in Materials Science 203-224 Advanced Ceramics 225-244 Organic Polymers 245-282 New Ways of Looking at Surfaces 283-306 Materials Synthesis and Processing 307-318 Ensuring Contributions to Materials Science from Small-, Intermediate-, and Large-Scale Science 319-334 Perspectives on Facilities and Instrumentation for Materials Research 335-346 Materials Research and the Corporate Sector 347-368 Contributors 369-376 Index 377-392