Date:                            October 3, 2008

Houston, TX - Materials Science Technology Inc. (MST) recently elected S. “Vish” Viswanathan and J. Garner Moore to its Board of Directors.  MST designs, develops and distributes advanced materials used in scientific and advanced engineering applications.   Viswanathan and Moore will serve in conjunction with Bill W. Goodwin (President, CEO and Chairman), Harry R. Allcock (Distinguished Pugh Professor at The Pennsylvania State University), R. David Baum (Executive Vice President) and Mark K. Camstra (Executive Vice President).

Viswanathan is the Austin Finch Professor of Finance at Duke University. Dr. Viswanathan taught Advanced Corporate Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Corporate Finance at the University of Chicago.  He received his B.Sc. in Chemistry (Distinction) from the University of Bombay, M.M.S. in Finance from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (Bombay) and his Ph.D. in Finance from the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University.

Moore retired from Ethyl Corporation as Vice President Chemicals.  During his 38 year career with Ethyl he served in various functions including Manufacturing Technical Services, Product Distribution, Supply Chain, Finance, Marketing, Sales and Administration.  He holds a B.Sc. in Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (highest honors) and completed a specialty chemical engineering curriculum at Louisiana State University.