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Volume 18 - December 1993

Contents

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Material Matters

  • Federal Regulations Create New Challenges in Materials Science

  • F.G. Yost
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    29 November 2013, pp. 5-6

  • Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations is a compendium of rules pertaining to environmental protection, written primarily by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). These environmental regulations stand some 19 inches wide on a library shelf and are enclosed by 15 volumes of everchanging information. Each of these volumes contains amendments made to the rules since the last publication of that volume, so the effective dates of new regulations can be difficult to ascertain. Interpreting certain regulations has been difficult for many, the cost of complying with them high, and the eventual impact on the national economy foreseen as gloomy. Few, however, would deny the benefits of a well-planned environmental protection plan and few would sympathize with private corporations that flagrantly ignore regulations, pollute their local environment and, when identified, sustain heavy fines from the EPA.

    With problems like acid rain, air and groundwater pollution, global warming, ecological system degradation, municipal, industrial, and nuclear waste (and the federal regulations designed to control them), the need for important materials science research and development is great. These opportunities can be compared in magnitude with those provided by the Manhattan Project, during the 1940s and 1950s, and by the semiconductor revolution in later years. The difference between these past projects and the current situation is the way in which funds are appropriated for the research and how the work is performed. Rather than independently funded research performed by multiple organizations, work on environmental problems is witnessing cooperation among industry, government, academia, and the public, with a consequent savings of research monies. This cooperation is often achieved with a consortium of organizations such as SEMATECH or the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences.

A letter from the President…

  • Twenty Years of Excellence

  • Tom Picraux
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    29 November 2013, p. 5
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    29 November 2013, pp. 4-9
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Material Matters

  • Nature Makes A Material Difference

  • Christopher Viney
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    29 November 2013, pp. 4-5
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  • Research and Competitiveness: The Problems of a New Rationale

  • John A. Armstrong
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  • Letters to the Editor

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Material Matters

  • Materials Research and Development in India Has Rich and Rocky History

  • V.S. Arunachalam
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    29 November 2013, pp. 3-4
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Departments

  • Letters to the Editor

  • John Singleton, Fritz Herlach
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    29 November 2013, pp. 5-8
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Material Matters

  • Silicon Valley, What Next?

  • Craig R. Barrett
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    29 November 2013, pp. 3-10
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A Letter from the President

  • MRS Celebrates 20th Anniversary

  • Tom Picraux
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    29 November 2013, p. 3
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Letter from the President

  • 20 Years of Excellence …

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    29 November 2013, pp. 4-12
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  • F.S. Myers
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    29 November 2013, pp. 7-14
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Material Matters

  • Advanced Materials Development-How Do We Define Success?

  • David M. Schuster, Michael D. Skibo
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    29 November 2013, pp. 5-7
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  • From Washington

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    29 November 2013, pp. 13-15
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  • Resources

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    29 November 2013, pp. 10-19
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MRS News

  • MRS Treasurer's Report

  • Auda “Kay” Hays
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    29 November 2013, pp. 5-6
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  • F.S. Myers
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    29 November 2013, pp. 10-22
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