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Welcome to the Functional Materials Committee

The aim of the Functional Materials Committee is to promote knowledge and skills training in the field of functional materials. These materials have useful properties, such as, magnetic, ferroelectric and optical. These properties are demonstrated by metals, ceramics, polymers and hybrid systems, and find application in actuator, sensor and memory devices. Read our mission statement

News

Call for participation in 'Innovation in Aviation Security' project

The INSTINCT-Technology Demonstrator 2 (TD2) project is designed to discover, trial and showcase emergent security technologies, solutions and ideas for aviation security.
Defence, safety & security, 18 Aug 2010

Polymer-based hydrogen storage

UK scientists exploring the safe storage of hydrogen for powering vehicles have developed an organic polymer capable of storing three per cent hydrogen by weight.
Materials World Magazine, 01 Aug 2010

Notice of IOM3 Annual General Meeting

The agenda and instrument appointing a proxy for the Institute's 2010 Annual General Meeting.
IOM3, 08 Jun 2010
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Features

Sparking advanced ceramics

Heating element based on a ceramic-carbon nanotube nanocomposite
Spark plasma sintering can be used to develop ceramics with valuable properties.
Materials World Magazine, 01 May 2010

MASTering defence - UK work to improve defence

FV432 vehicles with identical visual colour and differing coatings
Team MAST has been delivering the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD’s) low to medium maturity materials and structures research since November 2007. This article presents case studies from that work - coatings to lower solar heat absorption, self healing of fibre-reinforced polymer composites and integrated damage resistance in composite structures.
Materials World Magazine, 02 Mar 2010

What’s hot? – thermal tracing applications

Swallowtail butterfly with hot body
Thermal tracing equipment used for military applications is successfully being transferred to applications such as wildlife welfare and clothing. Information gathered may have other materials related uses.
Materials World Magazine, 02 Jul 2009
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Events

Smart and Sustainable Packaging - The Materials Challenge

20 Sep 2010, Grantham, UK
This free to attend follow up event will concentrate on the materials aspects of the current Framework funding calls

CASC Summer School on Ceramics

14 Sep 2010 - 16 Sep 2010, London, UK
Various technical, hands-on tutorials run by the Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics

Applied Polymer Science Group meeting

16 Sep 2010, Durham, UK
Day meeting on applied polymer science at Durham University
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Jobs

Materials & Processes Data Product Developers - Granta Design

£22-32k, Cambridge

Opportunities in a company leading the materials information technology market

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Committees within the Materials Science & Technology Division:

Defence, Safety & Security

Functional Materials

High Temperature Materials

Materials Chemistry

Nanomaterials & Nanotechnology

Particulate Engineering

Rolling

Smart Materials and Systems

Structure and Properties of Materials

Superplasticity

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The IOM3 member magazine

Materials World is specifically devoted to the engineering materials cycle, from mining and extraction, through processing and application, to recycling and recovery

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