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Provides guidance on effective approaches for building laboratory facilities in the chemical and biochemical sciences. This book contains both basic and laboratory-specific information addressed to the user community - the scientists and administrators who contract with design and construction experts.

A report that follows up the 2012 report A Research Strategy for Environmental, Health, and Safety Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials, which presented a strategic approach for developing the science and research infrastructure needed to address uncertainties regarding the potential environmental, health, and safety risks posed by ENMs.

In 2007 a group of chemists, chemical engineers, and others from academia, government, and industry participated in a workshop to explore how bioinspired chemistry can help solve some of the important energy issues the world faces. The workshop featured presentations and discussions on the contemporary energy challenges and how to address them.

Attacks in London, Madrid, Bali, Oklahoma City and other places indicate that improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are among the weapons of choice of terrorists throughout the world. The book suggests identifying the important and vulnerable elements in the chain of events leading up to an IED attack.

Presents a discussion of the chemistry of carbon; an analysis of the formation, modification, and preservation of organic compounds in the solar system; and an assessment of research opportunities and strategies for enhancing our understanding of organic material in the solar system.

Chemical imaging has a variety of applications for almost every facet of our daily lives, ranging from medical diagnosis and treatment to the study and design of material properties in new products. This book reviews the state of chemical imaging technology, identifies promising future developments and their applications, and more.

On October 25-26, 2005, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable held a workshop to explore issues involving those who use and contribute to chemical literature, as well as those who publish and disseminate chemical journals. A summary was written to capture the presentations and discussions that occurred during the workshop.

Based on a workshop held in February 2005 that brought together a broad cross section of disciplines and organizations in the chemical industry, this report identifies a set of overarching grand challenges for sustainability research in chemistry and chemical engineering to assist the chemical industry in defining a sustainability agenda.

Examines the scientific techniques used as the basis for explosives detection and determines whether other techniques provide research avenues to detection protocols. This report describe the characteristics of explosives, bombs, and their components that are used to provide a signature for exploitation in detection technology.