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This book, edited by Potyrailo and Amis, addresses a new
paradigm-shifting approach in the search for new
materials-Combinatorial Materials Science. One way to consider such
an approach is to imagine an adventurous chef who decides to look
for new entrees by cooking food ingredients in many pots using
different combinations in every pot, and boil ing, steaming, or
frying them in various ways. Although most of the pots will not
have the tastiest food ever devised, some recipes will taste
intriguing, and some eventually will lead to a discovery of a new
fascinating cuisine. Of course, having a skilled chef design the
com binatorial formulation will certainly be helpful in ensuring a
successful outcome. Similar to food, each engineering material is a
complex product of its chemical composition, structure, and
processing. Generally, each of these components matters---change
one and you get another material. Most of these "new" materials
will be less good than ones we use now since existing materials
have been refined with the extensive work of scientists and engi
neers. At the same time if one prepares diverse materials like our
adventurous chef, chang ing material composition, processing
conditions and time, etc. , some of these materials will be
superior to existing ones and a few might represent breakout
technology.
This book, edited by Potyrailo and Amis, addresses a new
paradigm-shifting approach in the search for new
materials-Combinatorial Materials Science. One way to consider such
an approach is to imagine an adventurous chef who decides to look
for new entrees by cooking food ingredients in many pots using
different combinations in every pot, and boil ing, steaming, or
frying them in various ways. Although most of the pots will not
have the tastiest food ever devised, some recipes will taste
intriguing, and some eventually will lead to a discovery of a new
fascinating cuisine. Of course, having a skilled chef design the
com binatorial formulation will certainly be helpful in ensuring a
successful outcome. Similar to food, each engineering material is a
complex product of its chemical composition, structure, and
processing. Generally, each of these components matters---change
one and you get another material. Most of these "new" materials
will be less good than ones we use now since existing materials
have been refined with the extensive work of scientists and engi
neers. At the same time if one prepares diverse materials like our
adventurous chef, chang ing material composition, processing
conditions and time, etc., some of these materials will be superior
to existing ones and a few might represent breakout technology."
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