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Mesoscale chemistry : a workshop summary / Kathryn Hughes, Camly Tran, and Joe Alper, rapporteurs ; Chemical Sciences Roundtable, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Division on Earth and Life Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hughes, Kathryn, author.
- Tran, Camly, author.
- Alper, Joe, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chemistry--Congresses.
- Chemistry.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (104 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the last few decades great strides have been made in chemistry at the nanoscale, where the atomic granularity of matter and the exact positions of individual atoms are key determinants of structure and dynamics. Less attention, however, has been paid to the mesoscale-it is at this scale, in the range extending from large molecules (10 nm) through viruses to eukaryotic cells (10 microns), where interesting ensemble effects and the functionality that is critical to macroscopic phenomenon begins to manifest itself and cannot be described by laws on the scale of atoms and molecules alone. To further explore how knowledge about mesoscale phenomena can impact chemical research and development activities and vice versa, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Research Council convened a workshop on mesoscale chemistry in November 2014. With a focus on the research on chemical phenomena at the mesoscale, participants examined the opportunities that utilizing those behaviors can have for developing new catalysts, adding new functionality to materials, and increasing our understanding of biological and interfacial systems. The workshop also highlighted some of the challenges for analysis and description of mesoscale structures. This report summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
- Contents:
- Front Matter; Acknowledgment of Reviewers; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Introduction and Overview; 2 Growing (Up) from the Nanoscale to the Mesoscale; 3 Catalysis; 4 Membrane Behavior and Microchemical Systems; 5 Biomineralization and Geochemical Processes; 6 Computational/Chemical Processes in Self-Assembly; References; Appendix A: Workshop Agenda; Appendix B: About the Chemical Sciences Roundtable; Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Organizing Committee Members; Appendix D: Workshop Attendees
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9780309373319
- 030937331X
- 9780309373296
- 0309373298
- OCLC:
- 930707003
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