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Condensed-Matter and Materials Physics:

Basic Research for Tomorrow's Technology

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Size: 324 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1999

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Front Matter	i-xvi
Executive Summary	1-4	(skim)
Overview	5-30	(skim)
1 Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Materials and Phenomena: The Science of Modern Technology	31-92	(skim)
2 New Materials and Structures	93-136	(skim)
3 Novel Quantum Phenomena	137-167	(skim)
4 Nonequilibrium Physics	168-193	(skim)
5 Soft Condensed Matter: Complex Fluids, Macromolecular Systems, and Biological Systems	194-224	(skim)
6 New Tools for Research	225-273	(skim)
7 Changes in the R&D Landscape	274-287	(skim)
8 The Next Decade	288-308	(skim)

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This book identifies opportunities, priorities, and challenges for the field of condensed-matter and materials physics. It highlights exciting recent scientific and technological developments and their societal impact and identifies outstanding questions for future research. Topics range from the science of modern technology to new materials and structures, novel quantum phenomena, nonequilibrium physics, soft condensed matter, and new experimental and computational tools.

The book also addresses structural challenges for the field, including nurturing its intellectual vitality, maintaining a healthy mixture of large and small research facilities, improving the field's integration with other disciplines, and developing new ways for scientists in academia, government laboratories, and industry to work together. It will be of interest to scientists, educators, students, and policymakers.

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