日本未来科学技术协会理事长斋藤进六认为20世纪90年代新材料的研究与开发仍将以半导体材料为主,并会出现各种功能材料,如电光信号转换材料、非线性光学材料,也可能出现半导体激光用的化合物材料。陶瓷发动机材料、材料表面微细结构测定技术、人工物体功能材料也是90年代新材料研究的重要研究课题。 Japan Futures Association for Science and Technology Saito into six that the 90s of 20th century research and development of new materials will continue to be the main semiconductor materials, and there will be a variety of functional materials, such as electro-optical signal conversion materials, nonlinear optical materials may also Compound materials for semiconductor laser appear. Ceramic engine materials, the fine structure of the material surface measurement technology, artificial materials, functional materials is also an important research topic in the 90’s new material research.