Synthesis and Characterization of Advanced Materials (1984) / Chapter Skim
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Panel 4: Training and Orientation of Personnel for the Advanced Materials Field
Panel 4: Training and Orientation of Personnel for the Advanced Materials Field
Pages 69-79
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For three reasons we focus primarily on solid-state chemistry: first, chemical synthesis and characterization are major components of SACAM research; second, solid-state chemistry is a comparatively neglected field that is much less well established than solid-state physics, metallurgy, ceramics, and materials science and, therefore, requires particular attention; and third, almost all members of the Panel (see Appendix A) and others participating in the discussion at the time of the SACAM Workshop and afterward were either solid-state chemists or were concerned with hiring and working with solidstate chemists.
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Industry has borne most of the task of training people to deal with chemical problems involving solids, partly because the relevant university-based training has been inadequate and research in advanced solid materials is inherently multidisciplinary in character and so can be easily organized in an industrial laboratory. By solid-state chemistry we mean the preparation and chemical characterization of solids; such solids are largely inorganic but not exclusively so.
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Studies of mixed valence compounds, cluster compounds, nonstoichiometric materials, and extended defects are examples where the fundamental nature of the chemical bond in a solid results in behavior not predicted by traditional chemistry. Frequently such effects can be analyzed in depth most effectively with the use of solid-state probes.
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The French and German ~ university systems have a long history in the training of synthetic solid-state chemists. Unlike the great majority of chemistry departments in the United States, the areas of specialization in many European universities have included emphasis on solids rather than only solutions and gases.
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This lack, coupled with the recent decline in the teaching of classical inorganic chemistry in introductory courses, results in the near absence of sol id-state chemistry from introductory and subsequent courses. Yet a successful graduate program in solid-state chemistry is predicated on a pool of motivated students aware of the possibilities of the f ield.
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Of paramount concern is the development of laboratory techniques germane to the preparation and characterization of coupled and novel materials. Inorganic and integrated physical inorganic laboratories provide logical opportunities for the introduction of solid-state chemistry experiments, sucn as the synthesis of ferrites followed by x-ray and magnetic characterization, synthesis of and conductivity measurements on tungsten bronzes and silver halide ionic conductors, and the chemical vapor transport growth of sulfides.
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. Finally, we recommend that a clearinghouse be established to promote interaction among persons in industry and academia and persons in various departments in universities concerned with chemical apsects of condensed materials science and technology.
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ated to a large number of university dip among which are physics 8 materials science ~ metal lurgy ceramics,, geochemistry, chemistry' and electrical engineer~ngO However ~ for those portions of SOil5~$~e science that embody art emphas is on synthesis and C:~G~t~r i3Gtio~ of advanced mater ials ~ ~ t seems that >-a appropriate faculty blame Is :n chemistry or' pips mater iamb scier~ce departments ~ Chemistry departments seem are attractive possibility because (al many workers already in the f ield received their training if chemistry departments; (b) chemistry departments tend to be ~ arge arid often can make room for an additional sE,ec~ialty more Basil y than other relevant departmer~ts; (c)
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V BEYOND THE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE Most advanced-degree scientists from solid-state chemistry and materials science programs go into industrial or federally financed laboratories.
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Solid-state science in general will continue to benefit from the infusion of new concepts that arise from the creation of new materials and structures. We urge the members of university physical science faculties, particularly those in chemistry, to recognize the challenging and pivotal role that solid-state chemistry must play in the future of materials science.
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The August 1980 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education contains 14 papers from a symposium on Solid State Chemistry in the Undergraduate Curriculum. The Solid State Subdivision of the ACS has created a Solid State Information Bank and Clearing House.
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