What of a Knowledge Base for Fumcticonal Materials？ An imuitatinon for discussion and speculation

Recent years have witnessed the shift of particle experts from working in crushing, grinding and comminution, agglomeration and pelletizing, classification and filtration, fiuidization and movement of granular materials, etc., into the fields ofmaking functional materials, most of which are particulate, particularly in the sub-micron or even nano-meter size. A