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New Materials: Current Development Under
Simulation Techniques by Efrén Vázquez Silva in Modern Approaches on Material Science (MAMS)in Lupine Publishers
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In order to appreciate, in all its magnitude, the development of
new materials (the totally new, the derivated, the transformed and
combined ones), we need to observe through a prism of several
faces, but all its converging on the plane of the climate change
urgencies and the survival of the human being as a species on the
planet Earth. Thus, the development of new atomic and molecular
structures, the transformation of others already known, is a
phenomenon closely linked to contemporary and high priority
problems, such as the depletion of non-renewable sources of
energy, the care and protection of the environment, and the health
of people. It is possible to sustain that the emergence of modern
approaches to new materials had its initial rebound in two periods
of great activity: from 1821 to 1851, three decades in which it was
understood at the macroscopic level and discovered the possibilities
of thermoelectric; and from 1930, when it was possible to
understand, from the microscopic level, thermoelectricity. This
second stage led to many of the current new materials [1]. In this
sense, the emergence of alternative refrigeration technologies was
also decisive at the beginning of the 1990s, as a result of the
combination of environmental factors and the negative evidence of
global climate change. In general, the development of contemporary
approaches and perspectives in the creation of new materials or the
well-intentioned modification of “old” materials, is a cross-cutting
phenomenon to these crucial problems of humanity, which
solutions go beyond specific fields. And at the same time, in a
general way, they could focus from science to suprainfim levels:
nanotechnology. The manufacture of materials with great structural
precision at the nanoscale has led to extremely important
applications for those fields of high research demand, such as
energy, environmental sciences, device technology and biomedicine.
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