Tendencies of research and development in resources chemicals and materials — Summarization of a Youth's topic forum

The 2022′s Youth Forum on Resources Chemicals and Materials was held on November 12–13, 2022, in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Panel discussions focus on the cutting-edge researches on “Fine chemicals and advanced alloy materials” and “Utilization of fossil and renewable carbon resources”. This perspective summarizes the major directions of scientific research and technical developments aligned in the discussions. Fine chemical industry tends to pursue green and low-carbon products, intelligent product design, and start manufacturing. In recent years, great efforts have been made for transformation of cellulose into advanced electronic as well as life-service bio-materials and to the high-selectivity extraction of bio-base aromatic chemicals from lignin. Concerning high-end alloy materials, regulating deformation mechanism of crystal to construct bimodal microstructure seems highly prospective in harmonizing precipitate hardening effect and plastic deformation capacity. As we know, utilization of fossil carbon resources constitutes the major anthropogenic carbon emissions, and the related innovations thus should be, for possibly a long period, on increasing energy production efficiency and low-carbon cascaded conversion of fossil fuels, especially of coal.