Accelerating material development. (technology trends).

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Md has launched a resource for those using combinatorial approaches to characterize and lay open new materials -- a collaborative research center devot to advancing novel methods that can rapidly accelerate material-development efforts.
In contrast to traditional, "one-at-a-time" testing of properties, combinatorial manners let researchers explore, simultaneously or in rapid following combinations of materials characteristics and formulations upon a miniaturized scale. These still-evolving