Economic Model Morphology

The issue of the relation between the form and the productivity in filamentous microorganisms is of utmost importance for a variety of reasons ranging from purely fundamental to purely economic. This importance resulted in the multiplicity of research timely published and reviewed. However, the field remains descriptive but not predictive. It is not yet possible to make a molecular model or algorithm, where one uses morphological parameters to come up with the output and the assortment of metabolites. 

Although emulsion polymerization has been carried out for at least 50 years and has enormous economic importance, the detailed quantitative behavior of these reactors is still not well understood. For example, there are many more mechanisms and phenomena reported experimentally than have been incorporated in the existing theories. Considerations such as non-micellar particle formation, non-uniform particle morphologies, polymer chain end stabilization of latex particles, particle coalescence, etc. have been discussed qualitatively, but not quantitatively included in existing reactor models. 

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