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1988 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
From Macroscopic to Microscopic Industrial Mastery of Materials: the Characteristics of the New Materials
Authors : Professor Dr. Patrick Cohendet, Dr. Marc J. Ledoux, Dr. Ehud Zuscovitch
Published in: New Advanced Materials
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The growth economy which lasted from the 50s to the 70s had as its salient feature a macroscopic industrial mastery. As well as presenting this feature, materials had economic characteristics ; a material was basically a mass-produced commodity. These technical and economic characteristics formed a coherent whole tending to restrict the variety of new materials or to relegate them to a marginal position.