Harnessing Materials for Energy

This special volume of MRS Bulletin on energy is the first of its kind in which the magazine addresses a major societal issue This issue has contributions from energy experts from many countries and reflects not only the growing global concerns on energy but also the opportunities that materials researchers can tackle Some of the new materials are already available, and many are or will be under development Nuclear fusion might still be many decades away, but already, there are experiments with new materials to make fusion safe and viable Hydrogen, as is often said, is not a fuel, but as a carrier of energy, perhaps it would make a difference when combined with fuel cells Solar cells might turn out to be relevant in forms that we can now only imagine and work toward