Title: Self-Repairing Energy Materials: Sine Qua Non for a Sustainable Future,
Abstract: Materials are central to our way of life and future. Energy and materials as
resources are connected and the obvious connections between them are the energy
cost of materials and the materials cost of energy. For both of these
resilience of the materials is critical; thus a major goal of future chemistry
should be to find materials for energy that can last longer, i.e., design
principles for self-repair in these.