STEM materials: a new frontier for an intelligent sustainable world

BMC Materials - 2019
P. F. Moretti1, Bartosz A. Grzybowski2, Vasileios Basios3, Elvira Fortunato4, María Suárez-Diez5, Olga Speck6, Rodrigo Martins7
1National Research Council, P.le A. Moro 7, Rome, Italy
2Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. M. Kasprzaka 44/52, Warsaw, Poland
3Interdisciplinary Centre for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Statistical Physics and Complex Systems Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, Brussels, Belgium
4Institute for Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication, i3N and of the Centre of Research in Materials (CENIMAT) of Faculty of Science and Technology of Nova, University of Lisbon, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal
5Laboratory of Systems and Synthetic Biology, Wageningen University and Research, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, Wageningen, The Netherlands
6Plant Biomechanics Group and Botanic Garden, University of Freiburg and Center for Interactive Materials and Bioinspired Technologie, Fahnenbergplatz, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
7Materials Science Department of Faculty of Science and Technology of Nova, University of Lisbon and European Academy of Sciences, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

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AbstractMaterials are addressed as possible enablers for solutions to many global societal challenges. A foresight exercise has been conducted to identify research paths to design, with a new approach, a generation of materials which can provide multi-functionalities. These material systems have been named “stem”, in analogy to living cells where a base of primitive units can be designed and assembled for self-reacting to external inputs. These materials will embed a concept of “internet in things”, where their processing capacity will enable the systems to interact with the environment and express diverse functionalities. Stem materials do not exist yet, but many clues from different theoretical and experimental results suggest they can be developed, and because living organisms exist. This article aims at launching this new approach and promoting the structuring of a multi-disciplinary community to fill the research gaps.

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