That has handset manufacturers studying color psychology, investing in materials research and consulting color forecasts.
By the end, the factory was having to fly in materials to fill urgent orders at great expense.
Advancements in materials and speed will be made simultaneously and additive manufacturing will become a brilliantly useful industrial tool.
The technique only works in materials that have both piezoelectric and semiconducting properties.
They have been embedded in materials like plastics to increase their toughness and provide electrical conductivity for components that are electrostatically painted.
One example of finding that balance: maintaining the distiction in materials between Gucci bags (made of calf leather) and of Bottega Venetta bags (made of sheepskin).
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Kevin Murray, a prosthetist at the UK's National Center for Prosthetics and Orthotics, says advances in materials and technology have been dramatic since he began his career.
The hinge technology will have to be an engineering marvel, and making the folding crease of the screen invisible will pose problems in materials, optics, and touch technologies.
Mr. Hackenberg said up to 44 separate vehicles will be built on the MQB, resulting in materials savings of 20% and savings on tooling and facilities of up to 30%.
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Langer was trained as a chemical engineer, and his celebrated work has come at a time when huge strides in medicine--like the bumped-up potency of drugs--have coincided with advances in materials.
The Materials Project is a collaboration between Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to accelerate innovation in materials research by providing materials researchers with the information they need.
Mr. Terao said that he had sold shares in materials producers and exporters, locking in profits, because he felt that the prospects for earnings were unclear for the fiscal year that started Monday.
We are confident that our competitive advantages in materials science and deposition technologies, as well as our know-how in digital imaging, will enable us to capitalize on those opportunities and extend our leadership in key growth markets.
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These architects are engaging what and how we build in terms of the achievements of the 20th-century revolution in aesthetics and technology and the equally revolutionary opportunities provided by incredibly rapid developments in materials and computer-aided building technologies.
In these cases, selection is probably acting on the cost in materials and energy of making the products of the introduced genes (in other words, the protein that bypasses the herbicide, or the poison that protects against the insect).
But for those not yet willing to shell out thousands of dollars for their own home 3D-printer, Shapeways offers another path to bring software models into reality, asking consumers and retailers to upload their designs shipping the results back to them, printed on high-end machines with a level of precision and in materials that no consumer 3D printer can yet achieve.
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While such systems might work for transmissions between trusted parties (such as between spies serving the same nation) who both examine the materials in private locations and subsequently want the materials to be destroyed, they do not work for sharing with untrusted parties or parties who may view the materials in public.
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The company said it will cut its global workforce by about 20%, or 1, 300 jobs worldwide. 41% of the jobs are in the semiconductor materials segment and 47% are in the solar materials segment.
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The sides of the quarry, where people were illegally digging for rocks and sand for use in building materials, caved in after heavy rains.
Retailing includes the weakness in building materials which are counted in GDP as residential investment, not consumption.
The largest sector concentration, at 32%, is in financial services, with 12.5% of the fund also invested in industrial materials and 10% in integrated oil companies.
This is a fractious, finicky process and tiny defects in the materials, or failures in the alignment of the different layers, can result in 20% or more of a batch being scrapped.
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The companies have admitted wrongdoing, moved to change their mileage ratings on stickers and in communications materials about the models in question, and launched a program of reimbursing owners with debit cards for extra gasoline.
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It is simple enough for the consultant to include its recommendations in writing, in the materials provided to the board in anticipation of the meeting.
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To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).
If real estate collapses and the resulting banking crisis affects the rest of the economy, there will be a substantial drop in the demand for raw materials, with a corresponding fall in exports from countries that produce and export raw materials, and in OECD exports to emerging middle classes.
Wa-el is an Egyptian entrepreneur whose background is in composite materials, but whose soul lives in motorcars.
The WorldCommodity Fund, which holds about 70% in basic materials like precious metals and 30% in energy stocks, has returned 13.3% this year to date.
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It was the first time broadcast television archivists from the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Mongolia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam gathered to discuss archiving issues and guiding principles in digital archiving of materials in public service broadcasting.
Mr Roach said the company's success had been driven by its specialism in lightweight materials and many of the new jobs would be created in high-tech manufacturing roles.
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