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Dutch Materials Agenda Content Summary and aim 4 1 Custom-designed materials 6 2 Innovations and societal impact of material 8 2.1 Materials for the energy transition and sustainability 8 2.2 Materials for agriculture, water and food 8 2.3 Materials for health and care 8 2.4 Materials and security 10 2.5 Materials as a key enabling technology 11 3 Economic impact of materials 12 3.1 Contribution of materials to the Dutch economy 14 3.2 Investments for further growth of the Dutch economy 14 3.3 Materials research for the sustainable development goals 14 4 Research themes from the Dutch Materials Agenda 18 5 Dutch ecosystem for materials research 20 5.1 Universities, NWO institutes and universities of applied sciences 20 5.2 Technological research organizations and institutes 20 5.3 Dutch materials industry 20 5.4 Dutch facilities materials research 24 5.5 Dutch materials research in an international context 24 6 Funding of the Dutch Materials Agenda 26 Appendix A Materials Research Focus Areas 27 Focus Area 1 Energy materials 27 2 Electronic materials 28 3 Construction materials 29 4 Soft/biomaterials 30 5 Coating/film materials 31 Cross-over 1 3D Metamaterials 32 Cover photo: Agustin Iniguez-Rabago, Soft Robotic Matter Group 2 Info-materials 33 (Bas Overvelde, NWO Institute AMOLF) 3 Making and characterizing materials 34 4 Circular economy and resource efficiency 35 METAMATERIAL PRODUCED WITH 3D PRINTING Metamaterials have unusual mechanical, acoustic, and optical properties Appendix B Members of the MaterialsNL platform, NWO committee materials 36 that do not occur in natural materials. They form the building blocks for new robotics, adaptive solar panels, materials that function as computers, and more. (Nature Comm. 10, 5577 (2019)) Appendix C Literature consulted 38 Dutch Materials Agenda Accelerating Materials Technologies 3 Summary and aim of the Dutch Materials Agenda – Accelerating Materials Technologies Materials… …our economy, …our ecosystem …and our societal challenges. New and improved materials have an enormous impact The Dutch economy depends to a large extent on Why are we so successful in the field of materials in the Materials lie at the heart of the solution to societal on our everyday lives. Electric cars are entering the mar- materials. Each year in the Netherlands more than Netherlands? Our country has an exceptional ecosystem challenges within ket thanks to new battery materials, mobile phones have 75 billion euros in turnover is generated from the in which universities, research and technology institutes • Energy Transition and Sustainability become more powerful thanks to new semiconductors, production and export of machines, instruments, metals, and the materials industry effectively collaborate at • Agriculture, Water and Food and wind turbines are increasingly efficient thanks to new and plastics, which to a significant extent are based on a high level on both current and future opportunities. • Health and Care composites and magnets. The field of materials research materials innovations. More than one hundred thousand This makes the Netherlands a world leader in the design • Security is undergoing rapid developments! people have a job in this industry. Each year, we train and production of innovative materials and products. • Key Enabling Technologies. thousands of researchers; they become experts in the That is why materials make such a huge contribution to Will we soon be able to make artificial heart valves using materials field both in the Netherlands and abroad. our economy. This Agenda presents materials sciences solutions a 3D printer? Or produce fuels from sunlight with the help to these societal challenges that also strengthen the of new catalysts? How can we produce and recycle ma- earning capacity of Dutch industry. That will enable the terials in a fully sustainable manner? New developments Netherlands to maintain its knowledge and economic in materials research are vital to deal with the enormous • Energy materials advantage and to effectively tackle the major problems challenges we face in the areas of energy, sustainability, Generation and storage of sustainable energy our society faces. The Agenda makes choices within five and high-tech equipment. core themes and four cross-over themes in which the Metamaterials • Netherlands excels and with which we can vigorously 3D printing and smart metamaterials • Electronic materials develop our strong materials ecosystem that covers both New functional, high-tech systems research and industry. Infomaterials • S Materials as machines; self-learning design E S M ER • Construction materials V O THE Stronger, more flexible, smarter, more sustainable SS- Manufacturing and characterization • CORE CRO 5 State-of-the-art infrastructure 4 • Soft/biomaterials Polymers, biomaterials and food Circular economy • Recycling and efficient use of scarce materials • Coatings/film materials New functionalities A broadly supported Agenda In concrete terms, what do we want to achieve? This Agenda has been written by the MaterialsNL platform, which brings together The realization of this ambitious Agenda is a matter of urgency and requires a considerable budget. academic parties, applied research organizations, universities of applied sciences, By using this Agenda, the materials field can put together an integrated national research plan industrial parties, and sector organizations on behalf of the Top Sectors Chemistry, Accelerating Materials Technologies. The Agenda ties in with the mission-driven innovation programs Energy, and High Tech Systems & Materials (HTSM), and describes the research of the Dutch government and forms the initial step towards an application for funding within the directions in which these parties want to collaborate. National Growth Fund in 2021. 4 Dutch Materials Agenda Accelerating Materials Technologies 5 O1 Custom designed materials Materials form the physical basis for almost everything has on all of a material’s properties, and consequently we can observe around us. Where would smartphones, on its applications. These insights can be used to electric cars or energy-efficient buildings be without improve a material’s properties – and so those of the correct materials? New advanced materials provide a product – and to create entirely new advanced solutions to important societal and technological properties. In recent years, materials scientists have challenges in the area of sustainable energy continued unraveling the relationship between the generation, circular economy, healthcare, security, and structure of materials and their properties. This new technologies that strengthen the Dutch economy. required the development of extremely powerful Materials science is the discipline that covers the microscopic techniques to be able to see, manipulate, design, production, study, and (re)use of materials in and control individual atoms and molecules. In a broad range of dimensions: from the atomic scale, addition, materials scientists are developing new via nano and micro, to the human scale of the objects (circular) routes for producing materials. New material around us. It is a multidisciplinary field that connects combinations and geometries create new properties physics, chemistry, engineering, and more. that are completely different from those of the Materials science teaches us which influence the component materials. All of this offers possibilities microstructure - the structure at the smallest scale – to produce completely new customized materials. 2035: Dreams become reality This document describes the unique opportunities that It is 2035. You drive through the city use neuromorphic computers; smarter Materials scientists are in an ideal in your electric car, which is wireles- than our brains and far more energy position to realize solutions to the materials research offers to solve our societal problems and sly charged with energy completely efficient than old-fashioned PCs. Your major challenges our society faces generated by the sun. The city has clothes are fully integrated with sen- in the areas of energy, raw materials, at the same time to realize entirely new economic activity. undergone an enormous transition; sors that monitor your body’s functi- security, health, and employment. buildings and infrastructure are made ons, such as the condition of your new In 2035, newly developed materials from entirely reused materials that heart valve that was custom-made for have led to breakthroughs in the repair themselves. At your work, your you using a 3D printer. areas of: CLIMATE SUSTAINABILITY HEALTH EcONOMY sustainable a closed artificial tissues a new manufacturing energy supply from cycle in and medical sensors for an industry produces smart sun and wind materials use ageing population products - made in the Netherlands Marc Hendrikse Emmo Meijer Manon Janssen Albert Polman Topsector HTSM Topsector Chemistry Topsector Energy NWO Materials Committee NWA Materials Route 6 Dutch Materials Agenda Accelerating Materials Technologies 7 O2 Innovations and impact of materials 2.1 Materials for the energy transition traditional building materials such as wood, 2.2 Materials for agriculture, water, sensors that continue to monitor the food quality and sustainability steel, concrete, and glass for buildings can reduce CO2 and food over time to prevent food wastage? How can we emissions considerably. A specific challenge develop antimicrobial coating materials to make How do we make our society CO2-neutral and how is removing CO2