Table I.

Existing AdM Definitions

Definition	Reference
Radical advanced materials technologies: product and process improvements that significantly enhance the cost-performance frontier of functional materials.	Maine and Garnsey (2006)
Advanced materials: materials, and their associated process technologies, with the potential to be exploited in high value-added products.	UK Technology Strategy Board (2011)
Innovative advanced materials technologies: [technologies that] make a direct and positive impact on economic growth, the environment and quality of life, via improved processes and products, throughout their life cycle.
Advanced materials: materials that have been developed to the point that unique functionalities have been identified and these materials now need to be made available in quantities large enough for innovators and manufacturers to test and validate in order to develop new products.	NIST (2011); Featherston and O’Sullivan (2014)
Advanced materials: all materials that represent advances over the traditional materials that have been used for hundreds or even thousands of years … advanced materials refer to all new materials and modifications to existing materials to obtain superior performance in one or more characteristics that are critical for the application under consideration. They can also exhibit completely novel properties.	South Africa DTI (2018)