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New and innovative materials have been keys to new technologies or civilization so far in history of human being. We are now entering a new era so called “information age”. Various kinds of new materials are expected to overcome difficulties in finding proper materials to construct and design new devices. Scientific approaches to finding the proper materials are called “Materials Design”. There are three categories in the concept of materials design1) depending upon the stage of R&D of the materials. The first is the one to seeking candidates of new materials. This is important especially for electronic ceramics. The second is for making the candidates practically useful. This may correspond to R&D of structural ceramics. The last is for easy accesses to and from materials data bases. The design of new alloys (metals and/or dielectric ceramics) have been effective by consulting data bases. As for functional ceramics especially for atmosphere sensitive materials we need new materials which have not been known yet, since we do not have enough candidates.
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Yanagida, H., Nakamura, Y. (1986). Multiphase Interaction for Seeking Exotic Phenomena. In: Tressler, R.E., Messing, G.L., Pantano, C.G., Newnham, R.E. (eds) Tailoring Multiphase and Composite Ceramics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2233-7_32
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