Table of Contents:
  • Critical technologies and U.S. competitiveness : the materials connection / Robert M. White
  • Materials science and engineering for the 1990s : a national academies study / Praveen Chaudhari
  • The National Science Foundation's program in materials science : new frontiers, new initiatives, new programs, and new prospects / Kenneth G. Hancock
  • Development and commercialization of advanced-performance materials / Mary L. Good
  • Partnerships with universities / Mark Wrighton
  • Materials education for and by chemists / Rustum Roy
  • Industrial perspective on materials chemistry education / Glen H. Pearson
  • Funding opportunities for materials science education / C.T. Sears and S.H. Hixson
  • Chemistry of materials courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Gary E. Wnek and Peter J. Ficalora
  • New curricular materials for introducing polymer topics in introductory chemistry courses / John P. Droske
  • General chemistry as a curriculum pressure point : development of Teaching general chemistry : a materials science companion / Arthur B. Ellis
  • How scientists and engineers can enhance science education in grades K-12 / Kenneth H. Eckelmeyer
  • New directions in the design of lithographic resist materials : a case study / Elsa Reichmanis and Larry F. Thompson
  • High-conductivity, solid polymeric electrolytes / Michael S. Mendolia and Gregory C. Farrington
  • Preceramic polymers : past, present, and future / Dietmar Seyferth
  • Molecular magnets : an emerging area of materials chemistry / Joel S. Miller and Arthur J. Epstein
  • Optimization of microscopic and macroscopic second-order optical nonlinearities / Seth R. Marder
  • Materials chemistry of organic monolayer and multilayer thin films / Christine M. Bell, Huey C. Yang, and Thomas E. Mallouk
  • Orientation-dependent NMR spectroscopy as a structural tool for layered materials / Mark E. Thompson [and others]
  • Nanoscale, two-dimensional organic-inorganic materials / E. Giannelis
  • Nanoporous layered materials / Thomas J. Pinnavaia
  • Catalytic materials / Bruce C. Gates
  • Molecular sieves for air separation / John N. Armor
  • Nanomaterials : endosemiconductors and exosemiconductors / Geoffrey A. Ozin
  • Molecule-based syntheses of extended inorganic solids / Michael L. Steigerwald
  • Organometallic chemical vapor deposition of compound semiconductors : a chemical perspective / Klavs F. Jensen
  • Interfaces, interfacial reactions, and superlattice reactants / Thomas Novet, David C. Johnson, and Loreli Fister
  • Oxide superconductors / Arthur W. Sleight
  • Characterization of complex materials by scanning tunneling microscopy : a look at superconductors with high critical temperatures / Zhe Zhang and Charles M. Lieber
  • Biomimetic mineralization / Patricia A. Bianconi
  • Inorganic biomaterials / Larry L. Hench.