材料科学是一个跨学科领域，涉及研究物质的性质及其在科学和工程学各个领域的应用。近年来，随着对纳米科学和纳米技术的高度关注，通过发现新材料并利用其特性，材料科学已被推到研究进展的最前沿。需要新材料来以可持续的方式发展技术并提高生活水平。它们用于制造可充电电池，发光二极管和触摸屏之类的设备，它们提供了催化化学反应，将药物输送到人体并捕获发电站产生的气体的方法。材料科学领域的研究工作包括了解材料的微观结构在原子或分子水平上如何影响其宏观的化学，机械，电子，光学或热学性质。最终，这种理解决定了材料的使用方式，而进
Materials science is an interdisciplinary field involving studying the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. With significant attention to nanoscience and nanotechnology in the recent years, materials science has been propelled to the forefront of research advances through discovery of new materials and exploiting their properties. The new materials are required to advance technology and to improve living standards in a sustainable fashion. They are used to manufacture devices like rechargeable batteries, light emitting diodes and touch screens, and they provide ways to catalyse chemical reactions, to deliver drugs to the body and to capture the gases produced by power stations. The research efforts in materials science involve gaining understanding of how the microscopic structure of materials, at the atomic or molecular level, influences their macroscopic chemical, mechanical, electronic, optical or thermal properties. Ultimately, this understanding determines the way materials can be used and progress in turn leads to new discoveries.