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4. Societal Needs and Future Opportunities
4. Societal Needs and Future Opportunities
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The survival of our technological society depends on the more efficient use of energy resources and the development of environmentally sound new resources. Some opportunities in energy research and development where advanced materials can be expected to play a key role are the following: 0 Heterogeneous Catalysis.
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The methodology for the effective synthesis of new materials must advance concurrently. Catalysts are required to convert carbonaceous residues to useful liquids, crack large molecules, remove sulfur and nitrogen, and convert bad oxygen (e.g., phenol)
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There are many areas where energy conservation could be achieved through weight reduction and more efficient processes. Vehicle efficiency could be substantially increased if lighter materials meeting present engineering criteria could be developed without significant cost increases.
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Other opportunities for SACAM in electronics include high-speed circuit elements, such as Josephson logic junctions, and new display materials, such as liquid crystals, which could provide cheaper interfaces and open a much larger market for optical fibers and large-scale integration. In spite of its remarkable contributions, .
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What is needed is a broader awareness in the scientific community of the challenges and opportunities of SACAM. The basic science underlying many areas of interest to SACAM is poorly understood; examples include catalytic activity, diffusion in superionic materials, the band structure of amorphous materials and defect solids, surface and interracial properties of solids, the properties of very small particles, and the basis of phase stability and bonding in binary and ternary solids.
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It is in just such areas of basic research that breakthroughs can yield immense technological benefits. Some of the areas in which there is substantial basic interest and that show promise for future applications are less-than-three-dimensional solids, anisotropic solids in general, metal-organic compounds, particularly those of interest to the organometallic chemistry community, very small clusters of atoms, grain boundaries, interfaces, and other sources of inhomogeneity.
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