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The methods have in turn launched the new fields of nanoscience and nanoteclmology, in which the manipulation and characterization of nanometre-scale structures play a crucial role. STM and related methods have also been applied with considerable success in established areas, such as tribology [2], catalysis [3], cell biology [4] and protein chemistry [4], extending our knowledge of these fields into the nanometre world they have, in addition, become a mainstay of surface analytical laboratories, in the worlds of both academia and industry. 

The aspects of medium engineering summarized so far were a hot topic in biocatalysis research during the 1980s and 1990s [5]. Nowadays, all of them constitute a well-established methodology that is successfully employed by chemists in synthetic applications, both in academia and industry. In turn, the main research interests of medium engineering have moved toward the use of ionic liquids as reaction media and the employment of additives. 

It is characteristic of U S. labor markets for scientific and engineering persormel to experience severe shortages and overcompensating excesses. Now is the time for the federal government and tmiversities to build a research and education base in academia that can respond flexibly and efficiently to the persormel demands that will inevitably come. Now is the time to prepare a cadre of chemical engineers who will interact as easily and successfully with life scientists as chemical engineers cmrently do with chemists and physicists. 

Industry should also continue to commit resources to academic research, for reasons that go far deeper than the desirability of additional funds. The development of any engineering field, and particularly one as closely linked to manufacturing as chemical engineering, needs the intellectual guidance that can only come from an industry with a stake in research outcomes. Also, industry has to be linked to academia so that new laboratory results can be rapidly transferred to product and process design. An industry committed to financial sponsorship and personnel exchanges with academia will make sure that the crucial industrial intellectual involvement needed for success exists. Thus, the committee mges that ... 

The several industrial applications reported in the hterature prove that the energy of supersonic flow can be successfully used as a tool to enhance the interfacial contacting and intensify mass transfer processes in multiphase reactor systems. However, more interest from academia and more generic research activities are needed in this fleld, in order to gain a deeper understanding of the interface creation under the supersonic wave conditions, to create rehable mathematical models of this phenomenon and to develop scale-up methodology for industrial devices. 

This series of fora which began in 1977 was planned and organized, under my chairmanship, by distinguished scientists from academia and high level industrial representatives. The planning committee included several Nobel Laureates who worked hard to make successful the series of fifteen fora. The following dates, venues, topics, and... 

A panel of experts from academia and industry (Table 12.4-2) was assembled to provide the students with professional advice. The HKUST central facilities for Material Characterization and Preparation Facility (MCPF) and Advanced Engineering Material Facility (AEMF) and the laboratories of Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Technology Center play a pivotal role in the success of the project. Table 12.4-3 lists the equipment used by the students in this project. 

A rigorous discussion of this extensive subject is beyond the scope of this book, and an extensive treatment is also probably not justified at this point in time. There has been a lot of interest by academia and by industry in these methods, but the jury is still out as to their real practical utility in chemical engineering processes with their very high order, nonlinearity, unknown noise properties, and frequent and unmeasurable load disturbances. Several industrial researchers have reported successful applications. But other industrial reports indicate a significant number of failures, or at least a lack of significant improvement in control over more simple conventional methods. 

Meanwhile, a wide variety of cinchona alkaloid derivatives have been systematically developed as chiral selectors, which complement each other in their enantiomer discrimination profiles. Considering the variety of derivatives, an overall reasonably broad applicability spectrum, approximating for chiral acids a 100% success rate, is yielded and extreme enantiorecognition levels (a-values above 15) could be realized for some chiral solutes with certain selectors. Moreover, various studies carried out with the CHIRALPAK QD/QN-AX columns in industry and academia clearly document their practical usefulness for solving challenging real-life problems and this should be illustrated by the present review article as well. 

Since 1991, a significant research effort, in academia and in industry, has focused on fundamental science and on incremental improvements of the technologies that have made li-ion batteries a success. These incremental improvements have dispersed the ownership of the intellectual property over a large number of entities. In regard to the fundamental science of these cells, it is clear that both the structure of the electrodes and the mechanisms that allow... 

This report identifies technical hurdles and opportunities and discusses the role that government and academia can play in overcoming the nontechnical barriers to successful research, development, and transfer of these technologies to the ocean science community. Major conclusions and recommendations, discussed in detail at the end of this report, fall into two major categories, the role of the federal government and the role of academic scientists. Achievement of the recommendations will require cooperative activities between the federal government, industry, and academia (NRC, 1992). 

This workshop focused on factors such as work processes, systems, and technologies that could enable and accelerate the pace of innovation and increase the yield of major innovations from work in the basic chemical sciences. More specifically, speakers identified teamwork, commitment, standardized portfolio management, clear goals, well-defined milestones, and effective technology transfer as some of the characteristics of innovative institutions and practices. Successful approaches to innovation have taken place in different environments and between different environments—despite infrastmcture and cultural differences, both interdisciplinary collaborations and collaborations between industry and academia have proven beneficial for all parties. Funding must also be available to promote innovation at stages of research often ignored. 

External participation in projects by academia, other companies, and especially the customer offers a method of validating ideas against current market conditions. This is a difficult part of the business. Also, having a business champion, whether he or she is in management or is a respected scientist who advocates the importance of the project to management, generally correlates with success. 

Whereas LC-NMR was considered to be an exotic technique in the late 1970s, today over 200 LC-NMR systems are installed world-wide. The success of LC-NMR is due to the enthusiastic work of people in both industry and academia, who have combined their skills and efforts to continuously improve the reliability of this coupled technique. Some of the early pioneers of LC-NMR are coauthors of this book and thus ensure a guarantee for competent contributions. 

P. Marjanovic, Technology transfer between academia and industry - two-way street leading to mutual benefit and success, MHEA Bulk 2001 Technical Awareness Seminar, Manchester, UK, April... 

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