Benefits of resource strategy for sustainable materials research and development

摘要: Abstract Material and product life cycles are based on complex value chains of technology-specific elements. Resource strategy aspects essential strategic raw materials have a direct impact applications new functionalized or the development novel products. Thus, an urgent challenge modern science is to obtain information about supply risk environmental resource utilization, especially at early stage basic research. Combining fields science, industrial engineering enables multidisciplinary research approach identify specific risks within chain, aggregated as so-called ‘resource criticality’. Here, we demonstrate step-by-step criticality assessment in sector for multifunctional hexagonal manganite YMnO3, which can be candidate future electronic systems. Raw material restrictions quantitatively identified, even such research, from eleven long-term indicators including our developed Sector Competition Index. This integrates two objective targets: reduced enhanced sustainability materials, showing drawbacks but also benefits towards sustainable development.