Download or read book Chemistry of Materials and Energy. Examples and Future of a Millennial Science written by Jean-Marie Tarascon and published by Collège de France. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Antiquity, humans have used processes to transform the materials of their environment to suit their needs. Solid-state chemistry, initially a series of recipes, became a real science of matter and its transformations following nineteenth-century scientific discoveries. It is now used to develop efficient and eco-compatible materials to transport or store energy. Solid-state chemistry thus plays a crucial role in finding the answers that science will have to bring to humanity’s new concerns, particularly surrounding environmental issues.