Industrial polymer science, laws

Market Restrictions. To evaluate the viability of commercializing carbohydrate/synthetic polymer blends, an understanding of the three laws of industrial polymer science must be appreciated. Any academic would find these laws, relative to the three laws of thermodynamics, repulsive anyone with greater than five years of industrial experience knows their utility well. The three laws of industrial polymer science are ... 

There are many examples where commercial success of a new product and process are not achieved even when all the elements of an industrial business team are pulling together. The latest appears to be Group Transfer Polymerization. This is unfortunate for it is a beautiful piece of technology, but it is understandable from the laws of industrial polymer science presented previously. 

Moore s law, computational power has increased by a factor of 1000 since then. In addition, with the development of many computer codes that employ the Car-ParrineUo method, combined with the enhanced accuracy of density functionals that have been devised since 1985, there has been widespread use of the Car-Parrinello method. Between 1997 and the beginning of 2000, over 500 papers that incorporate results found using Car-Parrinello simulations have been published in major journals. Most of these papers have been published by groups considered primarily to be in the field of physics. On the other hand, the topics of these papers span the spectrum of disciplines as traditionally classified physics, industrial chemistry, catalysis, materials engineering, microelectronic materials, polymer science, biology, and geology. 

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