Commentary


Nature Materials 7, 603 - 605 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nmat2234

Materials research in China

Lian Zhou1, Hengde Li2 & Changxu Shi3

  1. Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research & Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an Shaanxi, 710016, China
  2. Materials Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing,100084, China
  3. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing,100085, China.

Correspondence to: Lian Zhou1 e-mail: zhoul@c-nin.com


The fast-paced economic development in China needs to be complemented by strong support for fundamental research, particularly in the materials sciences.

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