Chemicals research needs

When using computational chemistry to answer a chemical question, the obvious problem is that the researcher needs to know how to use the software. The difficulty sometimes overlooked is that one must estimate how accurate the answer will be in advance. The sections below provide a checklist to follow. 

This work is structured as a study guide, and it employs a hands-on approach to teaching you how to use electronic structure theory to investigate chemical systems. It is suitable for either individual, self-paced study or classroom use. Naturally, not every section will be relevant to all readers. Accordingly, chapters are designed to be as self-contained as possible you should focus on those parts which address your research needs and interests. 

I think that such a book may become a little like a real organism, which is the non plus ultra of an extremely complex combination of biological and psychic reactions. What we need today in chemistry is not more ponderers, but more people capable of disentangling a complex web of information and of making connections between apparently unconnected ideas or data. Chemistry is the science of molecules, reagents, and products, but chemical research should —like all research - create not only chemical products but also ideas. Chemistry becomes innovative through the combination of products and ideas. 

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Of the chemical EOR technologies, surfactant flooding is the most complex, the farthest from commercial feasibility, and the most challenging in terms of research needs, yet it has the greatest ultimate potential. It involves injecting surfactants. 

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 ... 

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