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Home > Publications > MRS Bulletin > 21st Century Materials Challenges > About Materials Challenges
for the Next Century
To usher in the year 2000 and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the MRS Bulletin, the Bulletin is publishing a set of articles outlining the role of materials in society and how their availability and sophistication have shaped the achievements of our society. We also plan to extrapolate and speculate on the materials our society would need in the coming century and beyond. Although the Bulletin rarely ventures into the future, sometimes it is valuable to speculate. The predictions, if nothing else, will help frame the research issues that should be considered in the coming years. The materials field has developed from one of finding and using materials to one where the materials essentially can be designed and built atom by atom. The hunter has become the tiller. What will the next century uncover as we dig deeper? E. L. Fleischer and V. S. Arunachalam
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