Materials for Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Rapidly increasing urbanisation, growth in infrastructure and energy industries, and the overwhelming need to mitigate climate change, have created tremendous demand for sustainable materials and processing technologies. In particular, new materials for sustainable infrastructure, manufacturing, environmental remediation and energy production and storage are required to support a global society and ensure a safe and sustainable future.

The development of better, cheaper and more sustainable materials is often impeded by a lack of understanding of the fundamental interactions occurring at the atomic or nanoscale which dictate material performance. Improved material design and optimisation often requires, for example, insight into the composition-structure-property relationships, reaction mechanisms and kinetics occurring during material synthesis, processing and use...

Dr. Brant Walkley
Guest Editor