Sid Das introduced new concepts for designing and synthesizing materials: materials that can keep highly reactive systems stable at high density and in pre-planned organization.
Materials and Energy are at the center of mankind.
Conversions of one material to another, and one form of energy to another are at the core of all human developments. We use materials and energy to help these conversions.
It was making fire and cooking in the beginning, to help with the huge calorie demand to support our disproportionately large brain (without spending the entire day just eating)! Or, in 21st century, it could be the making of potent battery materials (chemical to electrical energy, vice versa), solar panels (light energy to electrical energy), powerful memory devices (magnetic to electrical energy, vice versa), or, even a potent drug (targeted conversions of materials in our body). Everything we do, in every single second, involves a material or energy conversion, often both.
BUT, in this century we face a new kind of question: How to sustain this pursuit of mankind? While sustaining the Nature, sustaining our beloved Earth too.
We need innovative chemistry, so that we can achieve the conversion processes not only very, very fast, but also again, and again, and again. Minimize any waste of energy and materials.
The scale of this challenge is way more massive than any scientific endeavor that we, the human race, have ever undertaken.
Unfortunately, we did not learn how to make things both fast and endurant, i.e. both reactive and stable!
Sid takes on this central challenge. Because, Sid believes that every single step to answer this central challenge will be a firm step for the human race to move forward.
Materials and Energy are at the center of mankind.
Conversions of one material to another, and one form of energy to another are at the core of all human developments. We use materials and energy to help these conversions.
It was making fire and cooking in the beginning, to help with the huge calorie demand to support our disproportionately large brain (without spending the entire day just eating)! Or, in 21st century, it could be the making of potent battery materials (chemical to electrical energy, vice versa), solar panels (light energy to electrical energy), powerful memory devices (magnetic to electrical energy, vice versa), or, even a potent drug (targeted conversions of materials in our body). Everything we do, in every single second, involves a material or energy conversion, often both.
BUT, in this century we face a new kind of question: How to sustain this pursuit of mankind? While sustaining the Nature, sustaining our beloved Earth too.
We need innovative chemistry, so that we can achieve the conversion processes not only very, very fast, but also again, and again, and again. Minimize any waste of energy and materials.
The scale of this challenge is way more massive than any scientific endeavor that we, the human race, have ever undertaken.
Unfortunately, we did not learn how to make things both fast and endurant, i.e. both reactive and stable!
Sid takes on this central challenge. Because, Sid believes that every single step to answer this central challenge will be a firm step for the human race to move forward.