Materials: Colourful clay

 Nature

Materials: Colourful clay

Nature 454, 140 (2008). doi:10.1038/454140c

Authors are invited to submit, via the conference website, a 200-250 word abstract by 1 June 2008. The 17th International Conference on Wear of Materials (www.wom-conference.elsevier.com) will take place in Las Vegas, April 19-22, 2009. The conference will focus on both the fundamental and applied aspects of wear and friction of materials at the macro-, micro- and nano-scale.

The abstract submission deadline for this next conference in the biennial Fatigue Damage of Structural Materials series (www.fatiguedamage.elsevier.com) is 28 November 2007.

The conference will take place will take place in Hyannis, MA, USA, 14-19 September 2008. Hyannis is located on the beautiful Cape Cod peninsula just 90 minutes from Boston's Logan International Airport and T.F.Green Airport in Providence.   

Professorship in the Mechanics of Materials Division
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Imperial College London

Imperial College is one of Europe's leading teaching and research institutions and the Department of Mechanical Engineering had the highest possible rating in the last Research Assessment Exercise.

Guru at Entertaining Research points us to an article from Arstechnica on the recent National Academies of Science report on grand challenges in condensed matter and materials physics.  The report is called Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics: The Science of the World Around Us (the link takes you to a draft copy of the report and should not be cited).

I found the following sections of the report interesting:

Please find below the announcement for the NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials: