"Developed from a symposium sponsored by the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Inc., at the 204th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., August 23-28, 1992." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Critical technologies and U.S. competitiveness : the materials connection / Robert M. White -- Materials science and engineering for the 1990s : a national academies study / Praveen Chaudhari -- The National Science Foundation's program in materials science : new frontiers, new initiatives, new programs, and new prospects / Kenneth G. Hancock -- Development and commercialization of advanced-performance materials / Mary L. Good -- Partnerships with universities / Mark Wrighton -- Materials education for and by chemists / Rustum Roy -- Industrial perspective on materials chemistry education / Glen H. Pearson -- Funding opportunities for materials science education / C.T. Sears and S.H. Hixson -- Chemistry of materials courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute / Gary E. Wnek and Peter J. Ficalora -- New curricular materials for introducing polymer topics in introductory chemistry courses / John P. Droske -- General chemistry as a curriculum pressure point : development of Teaching general chemistry : a materials science companion / Arthur B. Ellis -- How scientists and engineers can enhance science education in grades K-12 / Kenneth H. Eckelmeyer -- New directions in the design of lithographic resist materials : a case study / Elsa Reichmanis and Larry F. Thompson -- High-conductivity, solid polymeric electrolytes / Michael S. Mendolia and Gregory C. Farrington -- Preceramic polymers : past, present, and future / Dietmar Seyferth -- Molecular magnets : an emerging area of materials chemistry / Joel S. Miller and Arthur J. Epstein -- Optimization of microscopic and macroscopic second-order optical nonlinearities / Seth R. Marder -- Materials chemistry of organic monolayer and multilayer thin films / Christine M. Bell, Huey C. Yang, and Thomas E. Mallouk -- Orientation-dependent NMR spectroscopy as a structural tool for layered materials / Mark E. Thompson ... {et al.} -- Nanoscale, two-dimensional organic-inorganic materials / E. Giannelis -- Nanoporous layered materials / Thomas J. Pinnavaia -- Catalytic materials / Bruce C. Gates -- Molecular sieves for air separation / John N. Armor -- Nanomaterials : endosemiconductors and exosemiconductors / Geoffrey A. Ozin -- Molecule-based syntheses of extended inorganic solids / Michael L. Steigerwald -- Organometallic chemical vapor deposition of compound semiconductors : a chemical perspective / Klavs F. Jensen -- Interfaces, interfacial reactions, and superlattice reactants / Thomas Novet, David C. Johnson, and Loreli Fister -- Oxide superconductors / Arthur W. Sleight -- Characterization of complex materials by scanning tunneling microscopy : a look at superconductors with high critical temperatures / Zhe Zhang and Charles M. Lieber -- Biomimetic mineralization / Patricia A. Bianconi -- Inorganic biomaterials / Larry L. Hench.