Adv. Eng. Mater. 1‐2/2012

These days nanotechnology start-ups are emerging with increasing frequency in almost every country around the globe, indicating that attitudes towards entrepreneurship are undergoing a significant change.Innovation in nanotechnology often springs from ideas birthed in universities yet the mindset of stakeholders towards entrepreneurship in our seats of knowledge is vastly underappreciated.In this article the challenges faced by academics and students are explored when confronted with the collision between fundamental research in the pursuit of knowledge and applied research directed at the creation of inventions, intellectual property, companies, jobs, products and wealth.For details see the article by Ozin et al. on page 8.Long-exposure image of a hypervelocity impact between an aluminum projectile traveling at 3 km/s and a three-layer bulk metallic glass composite foam.Owing to their unique combination of high hardness, low density, and low melting temperatures, metallic glasses appear to be optimal materials for orbital debris shields for spacecraft and satellites in low-earth-orbit.In this article, Davidson et.al. perform the first evaluation of these non-crystalline materials under hypervelocity impacts.Further details can be found by D. C.