6. General conclusion

A powerful tool for research into the organization of matter, the pressure parameter is also making a remarkable entry into the processing industries. In October 2000, the magazine Industrie et Technologies , in a forward-looking article on the 50 emerging technologies of the 21st century, cited high-pressure technologies. Many fields, from pharmaceuticals, metallurgy, agri-food, materials design and development and even medicine, stand to gain from the use of high pressure as a means of creating new products and thus new economic resources. Not covered in the present two articles are and...