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| | Strategic Research/Materials Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The Strategic Research Directorate maintains a broad base of research in materials science including a wide range of programs and state-of-the-art capabilities in materials synthesis, fabrication, characterization, processing, and modeling. |
 | | Material scientists in the Strategic Research Directorate conduct wide-ranging research in areas of advanced crystal growth, condensed matter, electronic and electrochemical materials and devices, material properties and their underlying structures, nanoscience, polymers and coatings, thermal physics and the metallurgical science and engineering of radioactive and non-radioactive metals and alloys. |
 | | The effect of this research includes continuing advances in such technologies as fuel cells, chemical and biological agent detectors, electroluminescent polymers, organic electronics and nanotechnologies. |
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