The efficiency and eco-efficiency of manufacturing

In this paper, we review the efficiency of both manufacturing processes and systems over recent decades and compare nano-materials technologies in this context. To a first approximation, nano-materials processes appear to be about as efficient as semi-conductor processes. That is, their second law e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gutowski, Timothy G.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Inderscience 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60894
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7019-6887