USCRF Board of Directors Meeting
February 2004
Nanomaterials (USC)
•The Polymer Nanocomposites Center of
Excellence will position South Carolina to compete in the global market for polymer
nanocomposites.
•Nanotechnology and its application to
polymer materials is inherently a high tech endeavor, our plastics industry can be
converted into a high-tech,
information-based industry.
•Creation of new “smart materials” that
contain information-rich nanoscale particles with accessible information to
direct the activities of the user is a vision of nanotechnology.
•The Polymer Nanocomposites Program has
the potential to make our state the preeminent producers of future polymeric
materials.