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

摘要固体化学持续经历着巨大的发展，并越来越积极地参与到新兴的跨学科研究领域。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，化学反应和分子操作的纳米长度尺度的最近开放，复杂分子系统可以被设计成具有传统固态中独特或互补的特性的认识，以及许多其他因素。随着新思想和新方向的发展，这一领域一直对它们的适应保持开放。作为这种持续增长和重新定义的结果，作为一个社区，定期考虑我们当前的方向和未来的目标对我们来说很重要。为了响应这一需求，第三届NSF研讨会的目标是评估固态化学的现状及其在物理科学中的影响，并探讨其对邻近学科和行业的影响。本次研讨会继1998年举办的第一届固态化学与材料的现状和未来方向研讨会之后，重点讨论了本学科的核心问题。该领域的持续发展，特别是在纳米尺度科学和各种高度跨学科的领域，成为2001年在加州大学戴维斯分校举行的第二届固体化学未来方向研讨会的主题。我们讨论的结果将通过在材料化学杂志和互联网上发表的方式向整个社区传播。技术摘要第三届NSF固体化学现状及其在物理科学中的影响研讨会的目的是评估固体化学的现状，并探讨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的机会和方向，它希望采取在未来，并寻求洞察学生应该如何最好地训练。研讨会的发现可以作为一种媒介，告知固态化学社区在NSF和其他地方获得支持的项目和机会。该研讨会将产生一份报告，该报告将提供给科学界和资助机构，特别是NSF。与之前在1998年和2001年举办的两场研讨会不同，这两场研讨会分别侧重于我们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界面，拟议的研讨会将侧重于两个方面：(i)我们将在第三个千年之初对固态化学学科进行深入研究；（ii）我们将探索其对物理科学和工业中邻近学科的持续影响和关系。讨论的主题包括研究成果、新兴研究方向和欠发达地区。此外，通过不断的进步和跨学科边界的多种互动方式，评估固态化学如何影响物理科学，将有助于美国国家科学基金会和科学界更好地认识其在更大的科学和社会背景下的价值和贡献。社区对讲习班的重要投入还将包括讨论教育学生的现有和新的模式，以及开发和利用国家设施在我们的领域进行最先进的研究。

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.