{"term":{"id":"09032","title":"materials chemistry","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - materials chemistry","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.09032","code":"09032","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Materials chemistry is the scientific discipline that designs, synthesizes, and characterizes materials with particular interest on both their processing and the understanding of useful or potentially useful properties displayed by the materials designed and synthesized for specific applications.","notes":{"1":"The aspects of design, synthesis, and function (useful or potentially useful properties) are all needed for the topical item of material research\/development\/production to be part of materials chemistry.","2":"The keywords \"useful\" and \"properties\" emphasize functionality as a major driving force of the practitioners of materials chemistry.","3":"For a series of further details on both the structure-property relation and functionality by design, read the source."},"sources":["PAC, 2024, 96, 1693. 'Definition of materials chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2024)' on page 1694 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2023-0215)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09032\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09032\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09032\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'materials chemistry' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.09032","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-04-18T23:50:38+00:00"}}