Third NSF Workshop: The Status of Solid State Chemistry and its Impact in the Physical Sciences; Northwestern University; May 2006

非技术摘要固体化学在新兴的跨学科研究领域中继续经历着巨大的增长和日益积极的参与。这是由许多因素造成的。其中包括对新材料在许多基础科学和技术领域的重要性的广泛认识，最近开辟了用于化学反应和分子操纵的纳米尺度，认识到复杂的分子系统可以被设计为显示出具有传统固态系统独有或互补的特性，以及许多其他因素。随着新思想和新方向的发展，这一领域一直向他们敞开大门。作为这种持续增长和重新定义的结果，对我们来说，作为一个社区定期考虑我们当前的方向和未来目标是很重要的。针对这一需求，这次名为第三次NSF研讨会：固态化学的现状及其在物理科学中的影响的研讨会的目标是评估固态化学的现状，并探索其对邻近学科和工业的影响。这次研讨会是在1998年举办的关于固体化学和材料的现状和未来发展方向的第一次研讨会之后举行的，并集中讨论了我们学科的核心。该领域的持续发展，特别是在纳米科学和各种高度跨学科领域的持续发展，成为2001年在加州大学戴维斯分校举办的关于固体化学未来方向的第二次讲习班的主题。我们的讨论结果将通过在一本材料化学杂志上发表和在互联网上向整个社会传播。技术摘要第三届NSF关于固体化学的现状及其在物理科学中的影响的研讨会的目标是评估固体化学的现状，并探索其对物理科学和工业中邻近学科的影响。我们计划阐明固态化学社区意识到它希望在未来采取的机会和方向，并寻求对学生应该如何最好地培训的见解。研讨会的结果可以作为一种工具，向固态化学界通报在NSF和其他地方获得支持的计划和机会。研讨会将产生一份报告，供科学界和资助机构，特别是国家科学基金会使用。与1998年和2001年拟举办的两次研讨会不同，这两次研讨会分别侧重于本学科的核心以及固体化学与生物和物理科学中其他学科的相互作用，拟议的研讨会的重点将是两个方面：(I)我们将在第三个千年开始时密切关注固体化学学科；(Ii)我们将探讨其对物理科学和工业中邻近学科的持续影响和关系。讨论的主题包括成就、新兴研究方向和欠发达地区。此外，评估固态化学如何通过不断的进步和跨越学科界限的多种方式相互作用来影响物理学，将有助于国家科学基金会和科学界更好地认识到它在更大的科学和社会背景下的价值和贡献。研讨会的重要社区意见还将包括讨论现有的和新的学生教育模式，以及开发和使用国家设施进行我们这一领域的最先进研究。

Non-technical abstractSolid State Chemistry continues to undergo dramatic growth and increasingly active involvement in emerging interdisciplinary research areas. This is due to many factors. These include the widespread appreciation of the importance of new materials in many areas of basic science and technology, the recent opening of the nanometer length scale for chemical reaction and molecular manipulation, the realization that complex molecular systems can be designed to display properties with characteristics unique or complimentary to those in the traditional solid state, and many other factors as well. The field has been continuously open to the accommodation of new ideas and directions as they develop. As a consequence of this continuing growth and redefinition, it is important for to us to periodically consider our current directions and future goals as a community. In response to this need, the goal for this workshop titled Third NSF Workshop: The Status of Solid State Chemistry and its Impact in the Physical Sciences is to assess the current state of solid state chemistry and explore its impact on neighboring disciplines and industry. This workshop follows the first workshop held in 1998 on The Present Status and Future Directions of Solid State Chemistry and Materials and focused discussion on the core of our discipline. Continuing developments of the field, especially in nanoscale science and a variety of highly interdisciplinary areas, became the topic of a second workshop held in 2001 at UC-Davis on Future Directions in Solid State Chemistry. The results of our discussions will be disseminated to the community as a whole through publication in a materials chemistry journal and on the internet. Technical abstractThe goal of the third NSF workshop on The Status of Solid State Chemistry and its Impact in the Physical Sciences is to assess the current state of solid state chemistry and explore its impact on neighboring disciplines in the physical sciences and industry. We plan to articulate the solid state chemistry communitiess sense of the opportunities and directions it wishes to take in the future, and to seek insights into how students ought to best be trained. The findings of the workshop could act as a vehicle for informing the solid state chemistry community of programs and opportunities for support at NSF and elsewhere. The workshop will produce a report that will be available to the scientific community and the funding agencies, in particular to NSF. In contrast to the two workshops that have preceded the proposed one in 1998 and 2001, and focused respectively on the core of our discipline and the interfaces of solid state chemistry with other disciplines in both the biological and physical sciences, the focus of the proposed workshop will be two-faceted: (i) we will seek a close look at the discipline of solid state chemistry in the beginning of the third millennium and (ii) we will explore its continued impact and relationship to neighboring disciplines in the physical sciences and also industry. Topics to be discussed include accomplishments, emerging research directions and underdeveloped areas. Furthermore, an assessment of how solid-state chemistry is impacting the physical sciences, through continuing advances and the many ways of interacting across disciplinary boundaries, would help the NSF and the scientific community better appreciate its value and contributions in the greater scientific and societal context. Important community input for the workshop will also include the discussion of existing and new modes for educating students, and the development and use of national facilities for performing state-of-the-art research in our field.