The airy daring of many large buildings by Foster, Calatrava and others depends on the novel engineering possibilities of lightweight tubular steel.
Eben Bayer's inspiration of the wood-chip pile, the source of future inventions and industry, saw the engineering possibilities of a living polymer, fungal mycelium.
One important group that well demonstrates the enormous impact of material developments on engineering possibilities is the steels used for roller and ball bearings.
Octupolar molecules are of particular interest in the field of non-linear optics due to their potentially large quadratic non-linearities and challenging material engineering possibilities.
Carbon in principle provides additional bandgap engineering possibilities and also has an important impact on the stability of strained epitaxial layers.
In parallel, the potential benefits are discussed in terms of new fields of application (such as food and biomedical) and related reverse engineering possibilities.
Atomicity of business rules enables more effective management of rules and opens up metadata engineering possibilities that do not exist in traditional hand-coded applications.
With globalization being a reality for our generation, companies are starting to think about how they can cut costs to make their products available in developing countries; this creates a new world of engineering possibilities.
As examples, the macromolecular engineering possibilities of two "click" reactions (i) the copper-catalyzed cycloaddition of azides and terminal alkynes and (ii) the radical addition of mercaptans onto vinyl double bonds are discussed in detail herein.
This opens up new engineering possibilities for sensor integration in fluidic systems (including microfluidics and lab-on-chip devices).
