去年9月26日,美国国家研究委员会(NRC)就美国材料科学的现状及面临的问题提出了一份长达279页、题为“90年代的材料科学和工程”的报告。报告呼吁美国政府必须对这一领域的研究给予更多的关注、支持,非此美国将丧失它在这一学科的领先地位。报告特别提及要加强陶瓷、塑料和金属制品等材料的合成、制造。该研究报告的起草人之一,国际商业机器公司的 On September 26 last year, the National Research Council (NRC) presented a 279-page report entitled “Materials Science and Engineering in the 1990s” on the status quo and problems faced by the US material sciences. The report calls for the U.S. government to pay more attention and support to the research in this field, and the United States will lose its leading position in this field. The report mentions in particular the need to strengthen the synthesis and manufacture of ceramics, plastics and metal products. One of the authors of the study, International Business Machines Corporation