Materials science and engineering serving society : proceedings of the Third Okinaga Symposium on Materials Science and Engineering Serving Society, Chiba, Japan, 3-5 September, 1997

This symposium was organised with the aim of encouraging collaboration in international science and engineering communities for the benefit of human kind. It consisted of invited talks by experts on materials and poster presentation papers. Approximately 140 scientists participated and the resulting proceedings present an up-to-date review of the research in this area. Consisting of invited talks by experts on materials and poster presentation papers, this symposium was organised with the aim of encouraging collaboration in international science and engineering communities for the benefit of human kind. 140 scientists participated and the resulting proceedings present a review of the research in this area. There are two radically different approaches to making new materials.