Email: Gunilla.Lindh@mkem.uu.se
Website URL: http://www.mkem.uu.se

Materials Chemistry is one of today’s most dynamic research
fields with a huge impact on social development and on our entire way of life.
There is an ever increasing demand for new materials and for improving existing
ones for many diverse technological applications: computers, electronics,
communication, energy storage, solar cells, machine tools, biomaterials, sensors
– to name but a few. The current development in Materials Science towards
“nanoscience” and the availability of nanomaterials stimulates new applications
in many broad areas, such as information technologies, health care, energy and
environment. Our ambition at the Department of Materials Chemistry is to
participate fully in this development, both in our research activities and in
our undergraduate teaching courses, where we place a special focus on the needs
of today’s and tomorrow’s technologies.