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VAMAS
TODAY
Plans are underway for the next VAMAS Steering Committee meeting. The meeting is scheduled for June 12-13 in Montreal, Canada, hosted by the Industrial Materials Institute. A primary topic on the agenda will be welcoming new member countries, assessing standards needs, reviewing TWA activities, and initiating new TWA’s. The new VAMAS Memorandum of Understanding allows for the expansion of membership of VAMAS. Interested countries should contact the Secretariat.
VAMAS and the World Material Research Institute Forum
www.e-materials.net/network/WMRIF are in the process of signing a Memorandum of Understanding that will encourage information exchange and possible joint work items between the two organizations.
New and Recent Technical Projects:
A new VAMAS TWA on Polymer Nanocomposites was recently approved to begin operation. The new TWA-PNC will focus on the technical problems in standardization of the new advanced polymeric materials modified by incorporation of nano-particles, lamellar or fibrillar, natural or synthetic. To achieve the objectives an international collaboration has been initiated with industrial partners from three continents. See the following for a description of the first two projects to be undertaken in this TWA.
List of VAMAS Projects:
Technical Working Area Annual
Reports:
- A summary of the Annual Reports of the VAMAS Technical Working Areas can be downloaded as a pdf file.
For a downloadable pdf document summarising various aspects of VAMAS see VAMAS information. Download Adobe's Free Reader here. Researchers interested in learning more about the activities of new TWAs, or the current active TWAs, and participating in the technical projects should contact the TWA Chairmen found under Technical Working Areas
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