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Nature 419, 543 (10 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/419543a
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Materials for sustainability
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Whether in energy generation or environmental protection, materials research has already made many contributions. But the community has further to go to reduce the impacts of entire cycles of materials use.
Researchers working on materials have played an active role in cleaning up the environment over the past 30 years. Materials scientists have improved the quality of released effluent and exhaust plumes, the use of catalysts to avoid unwanted by-products in chemical processes, and the treatment of waste.
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