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Metallurgy is key

Metallurgy has been crucial to the development of China and its economy. Ke Lu, director of the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, talks to Nature Materials about the outlook for metallurgy and materials science in China.

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Plummer, J. Metallurgy is key. Nature Mater 15, 699–700 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4657

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