# Chemistry and matter

- kind: region

*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](/wiki/Space:materials.md) (4 problems)
- [Energy and catalysis](/wiki/Space:energy-chemistry.md) (3 problems)
- [Molecules of life](/wiki/Space:molecules-of-life.md) (3 problems)

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