Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.
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Related Hazardous materials or toxic materials are a real threat. PATRICK LIBBEY Most high-tech companies are looking to continually refresh existing products. Corning is always loo... STEVEN FOX They want it somewhere in the vicinity, as opposed to being in the middle of a cornfield and not ava... SUSAN JACKSON We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each gen... BETH ORTON We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland is... MAYOR PERRY BARSE Fire investigators have seen evidence of ... violations. We are looking into issues regarding [acces... JOHN OXENDINE On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main s... COLLEEN ATWOOD These devices are in people's garages and closets. The idea is to keep those bulk materials and haza... RICHARD MCINTIRE Many of the intermediate materials for nano are toxic, so the question is how you manage that proces... DAVID CHEN If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each... BETH ORTON The kind of things we're looking at, for example, are materials that provide radiation shielding tha... WILLIAM KINARD There are so many ways by which materials handling technologies and processes serve that need. DICK WARD There's a strong correlation between urbanization and demand for raw materials. With new roads, hosp... JOSEPH QUINLAN It is not just a chemistry project, it is at the interface of chemistry and materials science. JEFFREY MOORE Southeastern Materials is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of Outdoor Heritage Days. We're always ... TONY DENNIS Make the workmanship surpass the materials. OVID Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine mat... ALVAR AALTO The new jets are a lot smaller, cheaper and could revolutionize the way some people travel. DAVID GARZA The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. The... NATHAN MYHRVOLD We try to recycle those components because they contain toxic materials that we don't want in the la... PAULA CLARK We are also interested in looking at the soils and rocks exposed during impact and making imaging an... RAY ARVIDSON We are also interested in looking at the soils and rocks exposed during impact and making imaging an... RAY ARVIDSON The teams and designers are responsible for putting the boats together and deciding how we want to d... MIKE SANDERSON In safety, it's not going to happen by magic. You have to hold people accountable, for having meetin... ALAN QUILLEY We have materials in a number of languages. But most of those language materials are really geared t... CAROLE WINKLEBLACK We're busy nonetheless. Our folks and our equipment and our materials obviously are far less straine... BILL STOWE If we don't pull the hazardous materials out of the marsh, they're going to sink in and we're going ... EVAN HIRSCHE I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. MARC NEWSON [To render the separates dressier, Moss says designers have combined festive colors -- silver, gold,... CAROLYN MOSS We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for u... JOCHEN ZEITZ I look at popular history as a sort of synthesis for the non-expert, ... Scholarly history goes into... JACK KELLY These are all activities that parents can do along with their child or supply materials and walk awa... MISSY STOVER If a coastal earthquake does occur ... it will take some time to arrange for delivery of materials a... JAY WILSON Materials for construction are part of a world market, and the demand created in Louisiana is virtua... ALAN NEVIN New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw mat... WALTER GROPIUS Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, ... ROBERT REICH I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using re... DAN PHILLIPS The fact is I'm an opportunist. I'll take materials around me, materials on my table, and wo... FRANK GEHRY It was up and running, with materials inside, in three days, BETH BROWN That includes everything from building codes, to structural design issues and the less durable firep... CRAIG SCOTT important (research) primary materials. DAVID HULL The biggest things in life are not materials. CARLOS SLIM What we really concentrate on is the language that people need materials on in Marshalltown, which i... CAROLE WINKLEBLACK I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. ZAHA HADID We do use them for hazardous materials incidents. BARY LUSBY Since 1963, LEGO bricks have been manufactured from acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer - ABS ... CHRISTIAN HUMBERG Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you n... CHARLES KETTERING Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you n... CHARLES F. KETTERING We're looking at incorporating smarter building. Builders who use recycled materials, who go the ext... ANGELA MONIOT They are made out of very corrosive materials. Yet the charge from the government is that this warhe... BRUCE GOODWIN Students often don't use the extra materials that are bundled with the book. JOYCE DILL We've gone from zero percent of our raw materials purchased in Asia to 75 percent of our raw materia... ED SAWYER We do not know whether toxic materials have been burned, ... It's possible, it's even likely to some... GREG MELLO Our approach to materials chemistry is to use sophisticated design principles and reaction chemistry... JOSEPH FOX We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather. DAN MODZELEWSKI After the Cold War ended, there was an agreement between the former Soviet Union and America to conv... SUSAN EISENHOWER In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with ... NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forc... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG China is industrializing and they have to source materials and power. ALFRED WONG It kind of opened up people's minds to different things. People are learning what different material... JAMES RICHARDSON Because soft materials are so porous, it's very easy for odors to become trapped inside. BILL SHAW Hopefully, these reference materials will also provide consumers with another tool that can assure t... ELISA ZIED My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the chur... ROBERT H. SCHULLER They are original and ecologically correct furniture. We don't put down trees, but we reuse authenti... MAURA SPIELLMANN It would be relatively easy for any terrorist group or rogue state to misuse nuclear materials, not ... MARK JOHNSTON It was so quick that people were brought down by the materials which sank with them. ALI MOHAMED The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one... CHERYL HAYASHI David was adamant that the furniture had to include steel. Just by looking at his industrial work, w... JOE KLOCEK It's really fascinating to look at these different things. We have these different materials doing e... PATTY HABERMAN The slightly less negative recent news from the housing and retail sectors contrasts with increasing... IAN MCCAFFERTY This was not from explosive materials, but from chemicals at the laboratory, maybe mixed with gas. FIRMAN GANI Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all GERALD WHITE JOHNSON We are considering various ways of making use of our oil and gas downstream industries. This is to b... HASSANAL BOLKIAH We basically want to make these materials available to anybody and everybody who has a stake in sell... BOB LACHKY People relate to wood in ways that they don't to other materials. It feels real and natural, unlike ... DOUG HICKS I can't put labels ? on these materials, DAVID GREENWOOD a lot of suspicious materials in it. PETER JUDGE I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images. DAN COLEN Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing thing... JANET FITCH We are now able to offer customers a dependable choice for 100 percent of their CFM56-3 materials at... LOUIS R. CHENEVERT All this high-vacuum equipment is expensive and cumbersome and also incompatible with materials like... JACK MCCARTHY It was at Bell Labs that I first made direct contact with real semiconductor experts and thus began ... ROBERT B. LAUGHLIN We work continually to hold costs down. However, we are now faced with unprecedented increases in en... WAYNE YAKICH Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness... HELEN FRANKENTHALER What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product
of History; of which, therefore, R... THOMAS CARLYLE Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the material... MANOJ BHARGAVA Over the next several days, the design will be updated to reflect several changes, and new presentat... VARTAN GREGORIAN We brought back as much of the old team as we could. They had to be retrained to work with a new WMS... BRUCE MANTZ If not for stretchy materials, these patients would have to have shoes made. BOB TOTH Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials. GERALD W. JOHNSON It was the committee's feeling that these were the five materials best situated to be pulled from th... ED COLETTA We expect ongoing pressure from higher raw materials. BODO UEBBER It is difficult to create a grass-roots movement without materials that allow people to publicly ide... TED JACKSON I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials. NANCY HORAN We also had to do a lot of research about materials and cost. TREVOR WILLIAMS The way an embassy is constructed, the way people can get to the embassy, what construction material... ZALMAN SHOVAL I always believe in doing new things and using new materials that I have never used or that I didn... MIUCCIA PRADA These are not wholesale cuts. They are reforms, looking at entitlement programs and how we can make ... TOM DELAY Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or... PAUL RAND
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