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Materials for energy

Materials for energy

The road to sustainability

01 Oct 2009

“Sustainability” is the hottest topic in energy research today, but what does it actually mean? George Crabtree and John Sarrao describe what makes a technology sustainable, and outline the materials-science challenges standing between us and clean, long-lasting energy

The road to sustainability
The oil shock of the 1970s triggered worldwide awareness of oil dependency and launched a search for

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George Crabtree is a Distinguished Fellow in the Materials Science Division of the Argonne National Laboratory; John Sarrao is a physicist and Program Director for the Office of Science Programs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
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