While we operate under the banner Rare Metals Matter (… and they do), our content actually shares a common underlying theme of materials and material science. We’ve described a broad range of materials… be they gorilla glass, car tires, magnets, electronic components, battery materials, solar panels, lighting and lasers, medical diagnostics and treatments, building materials… even clothing.
Today, I must thank Stephanie Liverani of Ceramics Tech Today who brought another exciting and even broader materials initiative to light (June 22, 2015): “a library on the 17th floor of a building near Rockefeller Center in New York City where you’ll find things like conductive glass, translucent cement aluminum foam” and more.
Liverani describes Material ConneXion as “one of the largest subscription-based materials libraries on the globe, with about 7,500 innovative materials and processes in their database that spans a wide range of disciplines and industries, focused on bridging the gap between science and design. They have more than a million active members from Fortune 500 companies, forward-thinking agencies, and areas of government in search of cultivating a creative, competitive, or sustainable edge in their respective industries.”
The New York location is home to about 2,500 materials on exhibition for clients. And forget the “see with your eyes, not with your hands” policy. Founded in 1997, Materials ConneXion is essentially “a ‘petting zoo’ for new materials as a resource for architects and designers.
Sourced from MaterialConnexion.com
According to the Material Connexion website, “the collection is growing all the time. Materials are selected through a strict review process, and 40+ new materials are independently juried into the library every month. In better understanding materials, their potential applications and underlying science, we can ultimately create new materials, which will require less resources, less energy, although they may be more complex to produce.”
Material ConneXion has offices around the world with an international network of specialists, who offer vast cross-industry perspective on materials, design, new product development and sustainability.
There certainly isn’t a lack of innovation in the materials science world.
Until soon… Ian
PS: In reviewing the Company’s website, I also learned a new word… ‘Materiologist’, although I’m having a bit of trouble finding it on an online a dictionary. Cool term though.
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