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To support their assertion, NSTC cited the role of advanced materials in providing robust structures for fuel-efficient automobiles and damage-resistant buildings, enabling electronic devices that can transmit signals rapidly over long distances, protecting bridges and other surfaces from wear and corrosion, and endowing jet engines and airframes with sufficient strength and heat tolerance to permit supersonic flight. The NSTC concluded that many leading commercial products and military systems could not exist without advanced materials and that many of the new products critical to the nation's continued prosperity will come to be only through the development and commercialization of advanced materials (NSTC, 1995~.
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Nevertheless, many are concerned that the United States does not lead the world in the commercialization of advanced materials. The objective of the committee convened by the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council that conducted this study was to determine changes 1 Standard Industrial Classifications were replaced with North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS)
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both within the MS&E and end-user communities that would facilitate the adoption of new materials, reduce the number of "missed opportunities," and improve interactions between materials end-users and the MS&E community. This report focuses on the linkages between materials R&D and the commercialization of materials and suggests ways to promote the introduction of advanced materials into the marketplace to ensure that the United States maintains its leadership in industrial sectors that depend on materials.
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Thus, the interrelationships between the property, structure/composition, and processing ultimately determine the performance of carbon fiber when it is incorporated into the skin of a fighter jet, the shaft of a golf club, or the spar of a sailboat. Although the utility of materials developments was considered by the study committee, one limitation of this 1990-vintage tetrahedron is that it does not convey the importance of utility.
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For example, end-user industries have been reducing their product development cycle times in order to increase their competitiveness. Thus, materials developers at the raw-material production stage might also have to reduce their development cycle times to meet the needs of end-user industries.
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STUDY MODE OF OPERATION To determine changes in both the MS&E and end-user communities that would facilitate the adoption of new materials, reduce the number of "missed opportunities," and improve interactions between materials end-users and the MS&E community, the committee conducted in-depth studies of three industry sectors: the automotive industry, the jet-engine industry, and the computer-chip and information-storage industries. In addition to the expertise of the committee members, the committee invited representatives of the MS&E community, the industrial research communities, the supply companies, and the systems integrators for each of the case-study industries to attend workshops and to share their expertise with the committee.
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mechanisms to improve links between the materials community and the engineering disciplines, and (4) programs (e.g., education, procedures, information technology)
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