Research and development, target

The early days of automotive catalytic converter research and development, targeted the use of base metal catalysts. Numerous publications describe the results obtained with catalysts that contain, for example, the oxides of Cu, Cr, Fe, Co and Ni [7, 8]. 

Polymers and copolymers are among the most beneficial materials produced by synthetic chemistry. The invention and commercialization of new polymeric materials with radical new properties provides an opportunity to monopolize the market and justify the expense involved in the research and development. The commercialization of new polymers or copolymers always presents scale-up and design challenges. Scientists have recently developed new polymeric materials whose commercial impact has yet to be realized. Examples are semiconductive and conductive polymers and amphiphilic dendritic block copolymers. Other promising materials, such as polymers for (targeted) drug delivery and... 

Weeds constitute one of the major problems in agriculture. They are an important constraint on yield in most crops across the world. These days, growers spend much money on weed control. About 6 million ton of herbicides was sold in the world in 2006 and herbicides are the most used pesticides they form approximately 38% of the total amount of pesticides (FAO 2006). Nowadays, an effort to tighten rules for authorization and application of pesticides, research and develop products that are target-specific, degrade quickly and do not accumulate in the food chain, exists in... 

Policy instruments (see Table 19.5) to meet the various sustainability targets may be classified into infrastructure investment, traffic demand management (TDM), regulation, pricing and support research and development (R D) in new technologies. Each of these measures consists of several variants, which will, however, not be considered in detail in this volume. The following matrix undertakes an attempt to propose the appropriateness of the various classes of policy measures to meet specific subobjectives of a sustainable transport development. 

Research and development When we look within drug discovery, we typically find laboratories performing combinatorial chemistry, targeted... 

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