Resource Optimization Technique material resources

The blending of different polymers is a frequently used technique in industrial polymer production to optimize the material s properties. The biodegradable polymer poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) [45, 46], for example, which can be produced by bacteria from renewable resources, has the disadvantage of being stiff and brittle. The mechanical properties of PHB, however, can be readily enhanced by blending with another biopolymer, poly(lactic acid) (PLA) [47]. In order to prepare the optimum blend, it must be noted that the miscibility of different polymers depends on their concentration, the temperature, and their structural characteristics [48]. 

Like any businesses, bioanalytical laboratories perform operations that transform starting materials (samples and supplies) into products of higher value (quality reports continuing accurate sample concentration data). To maximize productivity and stay ahead of competition, bioanalytical scientists continuously invent, reinvent, and implement processes and techniques that generate more accurate and better quality reports with fewer resources (labor, time, capital, energy, and consumable goods). These continuous optimizations of laboratory operations drove the bioanalytical laboratories to begin... 

When MD techniques are applied to simulate the structure of amorphous materials, a common starting point is to quench from the liquid state. However, due to the fact that an MD time step is in the order of femtoseconds and limitations on the total possible MD simulation time from computational resources, the quench rates used in MD are several orders of magnitude faster than those found experimentally, and this can lead to the generation of structures that are not found experimentally. In these cases Monte Carlo techniques can be beneficial in developing an initial structure of the amorphous material, which can be further refined using MD or geometry optimization methods. 

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