Exploring basic science

Scientific work should not be supported simply for the technological contributions which can be envisioned, but rather as exploration which has the possibility of making completely unexpected contributions. We don t know what applied fields might be developed from a given research project. Here again, if you consider microwave spectroscopy of molecules, why would that have produced intense light That was quite unpredictable, and that s not atypical for basic science. If you explore new ideas, you get new thoughts and new results, and out of those come applications. 

The overview report will identify recent advances and current challenges in fundamental understanding of the basic science, and it will explore the impact beyond the chemical sciences that these advances have had in the past. It will also explore the possibilities for such impact in the future, recognizing that such developments are frequently serendipitous. Issues to be addressed include ... 

It is our hope that this chapter on a new family of materials, at the crossroads of organic and inorganic chemistry, will stimulate researchers and students to consider this new frontier of silicon materials chemistry for solving problems of their own scientific endeavors, for embarking on further basic science explorations and as a potential solution for the design of useful devices. 

This volume and its companion on Sleep Deprivation Basic Science, Physiology, and Behavior are true landmarks in the area of sleep biology and medicine. Dr. Kushida enrolled contributors who have pioneered exploration of the field, and I am grateful to them all for the opportunity to introduce this volume to the readership. 

Compared to the opinions described by Professor Whitesides, Professor Lehn placed less emphasis on the utilitarian aspects of what chemists do and spoke in favor of basic science. Why not do research and explore things just because they are beautiful, or because it is enjoyable to do so, as long as we can convince others that they are worth doing and e q)loring After all, they may ultimately be "useful", some perhaps in a practical sense, and others perhiq)s only because they contribute to nuuikind s understanding of the universe. 

Mandado M, Gonzalez Moa MJ, Mosquera RA (2008) Aromaticity exploring basic chemical concepts with the quanmm theory of atoms in molecules. Nova Science Pubhshers, Inc., New York... 

Mosquera, R. A., Gonzales-Moa, M. J., Grana, A. M. (2007). Exploring Basic Chemical Concepts with the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules Aromaticy In Hoffman, E. O. (Ed.)ProgrEss in Quantum Chemistry Research, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York, Chapter 1, pp. 1-57. 

After completion of the PD he joined the Central Research Dept, of E. I. DuPont, where he was assigned to the research group of Carothers. His supervisor inspired him to explore the fundamentals of polycondensation and of the structural characteristics of polymeric substances. In 1938 (i.e. after the death of Carothers in 1937) he joined the Basic Science Research Laboratory of the University of Connecticut, the beginning of a long and successftil academic career. 

Finally, chemists and chemical engineers must accept the important challenges that they alone can meet. Some of the challenges are described in this report, but the chemical sciences community must continuously expand the list— and always stand ready to accept new ideas and meet new goals. Some of the most exciting advances in science have come from basic scientific exploration, so we must continue to encourage those who simply want to expand the frontiers of fundamental understanding. 

Interface and colloid science has a very wide scope and depends on many branches of the physical sciences, including thermodynamics, kinetics, electrolyte and electrochemistry, and solid state chemistry. Throughout, this book explores one fundamental mechanism, the interaction of solutes with solid surfaces (adsorption and desorption). This interaction is characterized in terms of the chemical and physical properties of water, the solute, and the sorbent. Two basic processes in the reaction of solutes with natural surfaces are 1) the formation of coordinative bonds (surface complexation), and 2) hydrophobic adsorption, driven by the incompatibility of the nonpolar compounds with water (and not by the attraction of the compounds to the particulate surface). Both processes need to be understood to explain many processes in natural systems and to derive rate laws for geochemical processes. 

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