Chemistry

摘要

The future of chemistry should look very different from the past. Traditional, reductionist, highly specialized academic chemistry has transformed food, energy, health, transportation, communications and the quality of modern life. It has also - accidentally - depleted finite and rare resources, endangered workers and contaminated ecosystems. Green chemistry is the way forwards: it combines expertise from synthetic, physical and biological chemists, together with that of toxicologists, environmental health and life scientists, to deliver sustainable chemical design.