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Science 12 May 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5468, p. 995
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5468.995
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Pathways of Discovery

Materials by Design

Gregory B. Olson

To design a material is to try to meet a material user's need. A good place to start is with property cross-plots that graphically define property-performance relations.

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