Novel scientific approach

Novel properties in biological, chemical, and physical systems can be approximately obtained at dimensions between 1 nanometer to lOOnano-meters. These properties can differ in fundamental ways from the properties of individual atoms and molecules and those of bulk materials [1], Nowadays, advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology indicate to have major implications for health, wealth, and peace. Knowledge in this field due to fundamental scientific advances, will lead to dramatic changes in the ways that materials, devices, and systems are understood and created. Nanoseience will redirect the scientific approach toward more generic and interdisciplinary research [1,2]. 

While EVA wax crystal modihers have a rather mixed performance, including rather significant fractions of inactive materials, the novel line of wax crystal modifiers based on relatively low molecular weight crystalline-amorphous diblock copolymers have proven to exhibit excellent activity as CFPP suppressors even in unruly fuels [77]. This included a number of middle distillate fuels that resisted any treatment or formulations based on the EVA additives. In the case of the EVA copolymers, the application evaluations were based on an Edisonian approach. In contrast, the development of the novel diblock copolymer additives was based on a microscopic scientific approach, where quantitative knowledge of the aggregation behavior guided the optimization of the additive activity. 

In recent years, various means for achieving cognitive enhancement have been investigated. Although these approaches have been entitled novel due to the contemporary nature of the research, they often represent activities that have been employed for thousands of years. In other words, although comprehensive scientific investigation is only very recent, their practice and belief has formed part of collective human wisdom for considerably longer. 

Recent decades have seen the emergence of a novel approach to scientific research, based on the exploitation of fast electronic digital computers. Computation provides a method of investigation which transcends the traditional division between theory and experiment. Computer-assisted simulation and design may afford a solution to complex problems which would otherwise be intractable to theoretical analysis, and may also provide a viable alternative to difficult or costly laboratory experiments. Though stemming from Theoretical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry is a field of research... 

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