Synthesis and Characterization of Advanced Materials (1984) / Chapter Skim
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Panel 3: Interdependence of Synthesis and Characterization
Panel 3: Interdependence of Synthesis and Characterization
Pages 59-68
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A major concern is how to foster fruitful interaction between scientists from different disciplines; this chapter addresses this problem. We consider various ways to foster such synergistic interaction.
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Yet, university researchers are usually subject to peerpressure effects to a higher degree than researchers in other organizations and institutions. Special organizational efforts and funding arrangements are necessary to provide a favorable university setting for interdisciplinary work.
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For the same reasons, and in a similar way, the physicist should be trained in the language and operating principles of the synthesis chemist. The organizational and funding arrangements to foster interdisciplinary work on advanced materials in universities should be directed toward the cooperation of researchers in disciplines ranging from metallurgy to biochemistry and for the widest possible range of physical studies ~ The science of advanced materials may eventually benef it from contributions by the biological sc, ences as much as it has already from chemistry.
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The smaller industrial laboratory faces the need to keep its scientists who are engaged in applied research aware of the latest developments in their parent disciplines. One way of dealing with this need is for industrial laboratories to develop relationships with academic institutions, such as the equivalent of the university professor's sabbatical leave.
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These considerations discourage many from specializing in the preparative or synthesis aspect of research in advanced materials. Further, the low status frequently accorded those who do preparative work makes recruitment even more difficult.
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An added benefit would be the improved situation of the working scientist whose relationship with his supervisor would be more nearly a peer relationship. An appropriate professional organization, perhaps a division of the American Chemical Society, the American Physical Society, or the Materials Research Society, could do much to bring together scientists with the diversity of backgrounds needed in the study and development of advanced materials.
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2. Peer review of collaborative interdisciplinary proposals is often unsatisfactory within the usual discipline-oriented funding structures.
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The NSF Division of Materials Research is a successful example of an attempt to encourage such endeavors. The peer review process employed by such units should include advisory panel representatives of the involved disciplines.
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6. Industrial laboratories, particularly the smaller ones, should consider encouraging their scientific personnel to spend periods of leave in academic institutions.
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