Continent · region

Chemistry and matter

Settled by: Synthesis and measurement.

Making and understanding substances. Its open problems decide what materials the next century is built from and how its energy is stored.

Problem spaces

Materials (4 problems)
Energy and catalysis (3 problems)
Molecules of life (3 problems)

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