Beyond the molecular frontier : challenges for chemistry and chemical engineering / / Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, National Research Council of the National Academies.

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Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 238 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The structures and cultures of the disciplines: the common chemical bond
  • 3. Synthesis and manufacturing: creating and exploiting new substances and new transformations
  • 4. Chemical and physical transformations of matter
  • 5. Isolating, identifying, imaging, and measuring substances and structures
  • 6. Chemical theory and computer modeling from computational chemistry to process systems engineering
  • 7. The interface with biology and medicine
  • 8. Materials design
  • 9. Atmospheric and environmental chemistry
  • 10. Energy: providing for the future
  • 11. National and personal security
  • 12. How to achieve these goals.