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A service for Members, designed to direct you towards major web sites that will be of value to your company. Only a small proportion of useful links can be listed in the Bulletin. More links.
General
Industrial innovations at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory presents industrial applications for new materials
industrial-innov.lbl.gov/II-materials.html
Omnexus Plastics and Elastomers provides regular updates on new materials, processes and applications
www.omnexus.com/resources/innovation/newmaterials.aspx
Nanotubes
The Nanotube site aims to facilitate exchange of ideas between researchers and provide structured electronic access to relevant bibliographical information and preprints and to information about providers of nanotubes.
nanotube.msu.edu/
Nanotechnology Now includes information on materials and applications, with current news stories. The site is designed to serve the information needs of business, government, academic and public communities.
www.nanotech-now.com/
Composites
CompositesWorld.com gives access to the journals High Performance Composites and Composites Technology, and their archives. It also includes the 2008 Sourcebook, which has a section 'A multitude of markets', which gives a brief overview of the market size and major manufacturing uses. The site also has industry news, events and publications details.
www.compositesworld.com/
NetComposites is a site covering a wide range of composites information including applications and properties of polymers and composites based on them. It provides consultancy and enquiry services as well as more general enquiries on all aspects of the composites industry.
www.netcomposites.com/
Shape memory alloys
ShapeMemoryAlloys website offers a bibliography, and information about models and simulation, properties and applications.
www.smaterial.com/SMA/sma.html
