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Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials
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Process Techniques for Engineering High-Performance Materials

by Tim Oberle
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
493 pages
15h 30m
English
CRC Press
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Prioritizing Project Proposals
Which activities should be the R&D priority? How can we compare the potentials of
dissimilar opportunities? What is the right balance of projects in the portfolio?
The rst principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easi-
est person to fool.
Richard P. Feynman
Edwin Land developed two completely different processes for making
polarized lters in the 1930s before he achieved fame with instant photog-
raphy. The name Polaroid derived from the company’s original technology.
Land’s rst process employed a crystalline form of iodoquinine sulfate, which
was known to act as a polarizer. Earlier researc ...
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