The evidence that science and engineering can provide the raw materials for innovative business is there in spades.
As discussed in this chapter, flexible electronics can be created by merging new, large-area electronic platforms with traditional materials for innovative large-area system design.
Among other applications, the study of thermal properties of large networks of carbon nanoparticles may have a critical impact in loss-free, more compact and efficient thermal storage systems, as well as thermally conducting polymeric materials for innovative low-cost heat exchangers.
"Architects are eager to discover and use new materials," said George M. Beylerian, the president and founder of Material ConneXion, a clearinghouse for innovative products and materials.
The architecture team Diller & Scofidio thumbed through the thousands of samples on file to research materials for their innovative redesign of the Brasserie restaurant on East 53rd Street.
The challenge for the Rochester team was finding the right materials for their innovative design, and silicon wasn't an option.
The improvement of morphology, physiology, and phytochemistry in the induced tetraploid lines obtain from the four F. tataricum cultivars suggest that tetraploids are useful materials for generating innovative germplasm resources in the genetics and breeding of genus Fagopyrum.
As a result, government has prosecuted enterprising citizens for averting a flood in a military retirement home, importing lobsters in plastic bags instead of boxes, and securely storing materials for an innovative fuel cell while seeking funds for the invention in another state.
"Probably 60percentt of movable furniture is not moved," said George Beylerian, the president of Material ConneXion, a clearinghouse for innovative products and materials in Manhattan.
Biomaterial researchers are constantly looking for innovative materials like surface-binding ligands and implant materials, pursuing the aim of improving biocompatibility and healing into host tissues.
