Advanced Technology in Material Science Will Help Manufacturers to Grow
Posted by admin in Material Science on December 4, 2011
The Global recession in 2008 caused a pronounced deceleration in the Industrial World. The manufacturers of the advanced Countries started outsourcing their manufacturing activities to Asian Countries for economic reasons. But now the picture has changed, as the labor and other manufacturing costs has escalated in China and other Asian Countries as well. These Companies are now bringing back their manufacturing activities to their own Country. It is certain that the advance technology in material science will help the manufacturers of advanced countries to in-source their activities.
This is possible, as many new advanced materials were in R & D for many years and now available to small and medium scale manufacturers of the advanced countries. These Items are highly technical in nature and it is very difficult to explain it in simple terms. Anyway, I will try to explain these to readers in an easy way so that they can have an idea of what is coming up in material science in near future.
Let us examine some select advance technology materials which are already in use in manufacturing process. These are: Read the rest of this entry »
Material Science Research About to Get a Big Budget Boost
Posted by admin in Material Science on December 4, 2011
The future of technology, society and our civilization will be about material sciences. Everything we think we know about building materials, plastics, steel, concrete and the high-tech materials that are used to build aircraft, military equipment and space ships is about to change. Things will never be the same again. We will soon have lighter cars, transportation items and trucks.
Why is all this coming at us so fast? Well, the world of nano-tech is here and soon we will have materials 100 times lighter than steal and 500 times stronger. They will be thinner, conduct electricity and flexible or rigid at will. Other properties might be the ability to remain invisible one minute and at a command opaque, perhaps shape-shifting or reconfiguring as well. Think it is not so? Then you have not been reading the latest material science journals.
Material Science Research Facilities are about to get a big budget boost to create new aircraft for military, UAVs and submarines. Anything will be possible; submarines that fly, personal private air-vehicles and aircraft that double as space ships. And things will never be the same again, and we are already watching the next generation of airliners and private business jets emerge as this article is being written. Read the rest of this entry »