As you all know having full knowledge about materials would be helpful to all of us developing hardware, yet it rarely available for anything. Consumer products have almost no information, but even things like 3D printing filament - the filament manufacturers DO NOT KNOW exactly what is in it (fillers, coloring agents, etc.) and worse I found that the pellet manufacturers rarely know either…To date this type of effort has been from the ground up with groups like Open Materials publishing their materials data on cool and innovative products. I think it would be far better if all material ingredient information was available for everything. I made the case for it in Materials Today. (OA if you cant read it)
The question I wanted to throw out to the group - is what steps do you think make the most sense for actually getting this to happen? (e.g. does it make more sense to target Europe first, etc.) Thanks - Joshua