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21st Century Materials Challenges

Materials Challenges for the Next Century
MRS Bulletin 25th Anniversary Celebration

To usher in the year 2000 and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the MRS Bulletin, the Bulletin published a set of articles outlining the role of materials in society and how their availability and sophistication have shaped the achievements of our society. The set of articles also extrapolates and speculates 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, 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?

Documents

• Editorial: Behind the Themes and Between the Lines
  E. L. Fleischer, MRS Bulletin Editor
  Published in the December, 1999 MRS Bulletin
• Editorial: Materials Challenges for the Next Century
  V.S. Arunachalam, Carnegie Mellon University
  Published in the January, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• A Centennial Report
  Looking back on 100 years of materials development.
  Alan Cottrell, Cambridge University
  Published in the February, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• Materials for the Human Habitat
  T. N. Gupta, Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council, India
  Published in the April, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• Information Technology: A Play of Materials
  P. Chaudhari, IBM
  Published in the July, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• The Future of Medicine: Biomaterials
  H. R. Piehler, Carnegie Mellon University
  Published in the August, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• Editorial: Behind the Themes and Between the Lines
  V.S. Arunachalam and E.L. Fleischer
  Published in the September, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• Materials Science 2100?
  R.R. Chianelli
  Published in the September, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• The Science of Things
  Unanswered scientific questions and unquestioned scientific answers in materials research and development.
  R. W. Cahn, Cambridge University
  Published in the September, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• Does Integrated-Circuit Fabrication Show the Path for the Future of Mechanical Manufacturing?
  F.B. Prinz, A. Golnas and A. Nickel, Stanford University
  Published in the October, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• Self-Assembled Materials
  W.M. Tolles, (Retd) Naval Research Laboratory
  Published in the October, 2000 MRS Bulletin
• Yashoda's Vision: Microscopy at All Levels
  S. Ranganathan, Indian Institute of Science
  Published in the February, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Structural Materials in Aerospace Systems
  Dipankar Banerjee, Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India
  Published in the March, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Materials and the Global Environment: Waste Mining in the 21st Century
  R.U. Ayres, J. Holmberg, and B. Andersson
  Published in the June, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Materials for the Power Industry
  B.L. Eyre and J.R. Matthews
  Published in the July, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Market Drivers for Materials and Process Development in the 21st Century
  F.R. Field III, J.P. Clark, and M.F. Ashby
  Published in the September, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Materials Education: Materials Education for the New Century
  M.C. Flemings and S. Suresh
  Published in the November, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Materials Education: Development of African Materials Research and Education for the 21st Century
  A. Kebede and A.Z. Msezane
  Published in the November, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Materials Education: Perspectives of Materials Education Development in Russia for the New Century
  Y.D. Tretyakov
  Published in the November, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Editorial: Materials Challenges for the Next Century: A Concluding Note
  V.S. Arunachalam and E.L. Fleischer
  Published in the December, 2001 MRS Bulletin
• Posterminaries, Y20K - Looking Back
  E.N. Kaufmann, Argonne National Laboratory
  Published in the November, 1999 MRS Bulletin