Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20090048815
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | QuesTek Innovations LLC is an innovative materials solutions company that designs and develops new materials in less .. time and at less ..cost of traditional empirical methods. .. achieves ... through its proprietary Materials by Design® technology. ... uniquely integrates powerful computer design tools with proprietary material production and component manufacturing technologies. The Materials by Design technology yields production techniques and component manufacturing technologies that are well understood and predictable, which provides our customers the ability to introduce new or improved proprietary materials into their product designs. ........ From inception in 1997 until 1999,.... |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://www.questek.com/abouthea... |
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| Publication Date | January 1, 1999 |
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Notes / To Do
| Notes | Credit goes to Derren Dunn, IBM, for suggesting investigating work by Gregory Olson, Northwestern professor, and the area of Materials by Design in the Materials Science discipline. |
Excerpt
Excerpt Materials By Design, http://www.questek.com/matbydesignhead.shtml:
The last half of the 20th century saw a dramatic shift in the need for increasingly complex structural materials. Computers provided the means to rapidly design new products, but new material insertion into production hardware remained extremely difficult, typically taking 15-20 years, if it is successful at all. Recognizing the need for an alternative to the historic empirical method of discovery, in 1998 the President’s Office of Science and Technology designated the computational design of materials as one of five critical technologies for the next decade.
With the advent of more powerful and less expensive computers, Prof. Gregory B. Olson of Northwestern University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering had the same vision in the mid-1980’s and began pioneering basic research in computational materials design. His efforts subsequently led to the development of Materials by Design® and the formation of QuesTek Innovations. QuesTek’s technology is a computational-based materials design and development process centered on material systems approach. Starting with the performance requirement of a new material, QuesTek incorporates detailed processing-structure and structure-properties relationships into a material system design. This information is then integrated via QuesTek’s proprietary Computational Materials Dynamics™ platform, which is a core modeling software system that accelerates the design, development and insertion of new materials into the commercial market. As a result of its technology, QuesTek has become a recognized leader in the emerging fields of nanoscience and computational materials design.
QuesTek’s vision is to lead the computational materials design revolution and, using the best design tools and computational design systems, rapidly develop new advanced materials, or redesign existing materials, adding value to our clients by enhancing product performance, improving manufacturing processes and reducing costs. As the leader in the emerging field of computational materials design, QuesTek’s novel materials have been targeted to reduce or eliminate long-term environmental impact, enhance product performance and safety or reduce the cost in aerospace, automotive, biomedical and consumer-based products. |
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