Materials science future perspectives

This paper first examines the construction of this research field from a historical perspective. In such an attempt to point out the mainstreams that lead to materials science prior to the institutional existence of this field, I am forced to adopt a presentist perspective. I will not try to describe all the branches that finally merged into materials science. Rather, I will only retain those in which chemistry was involved, i.e., metallurgy and polymer chemistry. The main focus of this paper will be on the recent connection of materials research with biology. I try to analyze its status as an interdisciplinary field of research and will finally raise a prospective question is there a future for chemists in materials science ... 

The full range of organic crystal engineering endeavours are encompassed herein, from theoretical, data mining, practical and applied perspectives - these are sure to provide a foundation for future studies in this ever emerging area of materials science. 

Roy, D., Cambre, J. N. and Sumerlin, B. S. (2010). Future perspectives and recent advances in stimuli-responsive materials. Progress in Polymer Science, 35, 278-301. 

In 1981 Herman Mark asked the question of what direction polymer science was about to take [1]. Is it going in the direction of life science Is it possible to reduce polymer science, cell biology, and medicine to a common denominator So from that point of view, polymer science finds itself not only on the border between chemistry and physics, but also between material science and life science. Confronting such questions with the present reality allows us to examine some perspectives on the contribution of oligomer chemistry to the development of future human knowledge. 

M.T. Chevalier, J.S. Gonzalez, and V.A. Alvarez, Polymeric micro and nanoparticles as drug carriers and controlled release devices New developments and future perspectives, in Advances in Materials Science Research. Vol. 17, M.C. Wythers, Ed., 2014, Nova Publishers. 

Fu, Q., Saiz, E., Rahaman, M.N., Tomsia, A.P., 2011. Bioactive glass scaffolds for bone tissue engineering state of the art and future perspectives. Materials Science and Engineering C 31, 1245-1256. 

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