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Beyond the Molecular Frontier: Challenges for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2003)
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST)

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Beyond the Molecular Frontier: Challenges for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Plastics

manufacturing, 49

Platforms for process intensification and miniaturization, 36-40

enzyme membrane reactor, 39

methyl acetate columns, 35, 37

micro heat exchangers, 38

silicon chip, 38

Platinum

catalysis by, 27

reforming, 49

Plutonium

weapons-grade, 173

Polanyi, John, 48

Poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS), 128-129

Polydispersity, 146

Polyethylene

incorporating ketone groups into, 143

Polyketide antibiotics, 103

Polymer blends, 50

molecule alignment within, 50

Polymer electrolytes, 125

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques, 114, 119

Polymeric materials, 19.

See also Biopolymers;

Block copolymers

electrically conductive, 164

glassy, 126

research opportunities in, 14

rubbery, 126

synthesizing, 29, 49, 65

Polymerizations

living, 139

Polypeptides

calculating folding of, 76

synthesizing, 29

Polysaccharides

chemistry of, 100-101

Pople, John, 81-82

Post-genomic therapies, 120-121

Pioglitazone, 120

Rosiglitazone, 120

Potential energy curves, 47

Powder diffraction, 60

Precession

inducing, 131

Predictability

of catalytic activity, 76

designing and producing new materials and devices with, 8-9, 76, 192

of energy transfers, 90

of inventions, 15

Prion diseases, 114

Private foundations, 186-189

Process analysis, 68.

See also Chemical processes;

Flow processes;

Transport processes

Process control, 91

Process engineering technologies

for manufacturing, 35

Process intensification and miniaturization

emerging platforms for, 36-40

enzyme membrane reactor, 39

methyl acetate columns, 35, 37

micro heat exchangers, 38

silicon chip, 38

Process simulation

revolution in, 86-87

Process synthesis, 84-85

Process systems engineering, 17, 83-92

increasing profitability of, 88-89

modeling and optimization, 85-89

in process and product design, 91

Processing plants

zero-effluent, 143

Productivity. See High-volumetric productivity

Profitability of the chemical industry

supply-chain management increasing, 88-89

Promises to customers

capability to make, 89

Prosperity, 180

Prostaglandin synthesis, 109

Prostate screening antigen (PSA) test, 114

Protection

of citizens against terrorism, 8, 191-192

of health and the environment, 34

Protein structure

predicting, 76

Proteins

crystallizing, 61

folding of, 90, 94

synthesizing, 29, 112

Proteomics, 114-115

Pulsed NMR spectroscopy, 59

Pure science, 12

Q

Quadrant model of scientific research, 12-13, 20

Quantized capacitive charging, 138

Quantum bits, 131

Quantum box behavior

of colloids, 137

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