Beyond the molecular frontier
Subtitle: challenges for chemistry and chemical engineering
By: Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Contributors: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century.
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Chemistry -- Research -- United States.; Chemical engineering -- Research -- United States.; Biotechnology -- Research -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The structures and cultures of the disciplines: the common chemical bond; title: 3. Synthesis and manufacturing: creating and exploiting new substances and new transformations; title: 4. Chemical and physical transformations of matter; title: 5. Isolating, identifying, imaging, and measuring substances and structures; title: 6. Chemical theory and computer modeling from computational chemistry to process systems engineering; title: 7. The interface with biology and medicine; title: 8. Materials design; title: 9. Atmospheric and environmental chemistry; title: 10. Energy: providing for the future; title: 11. National and personal security; title: 12. How to achieve these goals.