Beyond the molecular frontier challenges for chemistry and chemical engineering /

Beyond the molecular frontier challenges for chemistry and chemical engineering / [electronic resource] : Committee on Challenges for the Chemical Sciences in the 21st Century, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, National Research Council of the National Academies. - Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003. - xiv, 238 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Chemical engineering--Research--United States.
Chemistry--Research--United States.


Electronic books.

TP155 / .N38 2003x