Commentary
Nature Materials 7, 603 - 605 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2234
Materials research in China
Lian Zhou1, Hengde Li2 & Changxu Shi3
- Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research & Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an Shaanxi, 710016, China
- Materials Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing,100084, China
- National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing,100085, China.
Correspondence to: Lian Zhou1 e-mail: zhoul@c-nin.com
Abstract
The fast-paced economic development in China needs to be complemented by strong support for fundamental research, particularly in the materials sciences.

