Imperial College London
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Nicholas M Harrison

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Chair of Computational Materials Science
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5884nicholas.harrison Website

 
 
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Location

 

401LMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@techreport{Adjiman:2017,
author = {Adjiman, CS and Harrison, NM and Weider, SZ},
booktitle = {Briefing paper},
title = {Molecular science and engineering: a powerful transdisciplinary approach to solving grand challenges},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/53609},
year = {2017}
}
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TY  - RPRT
AB  - The concept of molecular science and engineering – melding a deep understanding of molecular science with an engineering mind-set – is emerging as a powerful way to create novel, effective and sustainable solutions to global grand challenges, such as the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. By blurring the boundaries between scientificand engineering disciplines, in this holistic approach, final function and end-use requirements become an integral part of the underlying scientific research. Commercially ready materials can thus become a reality in an accelerated, flexible and economic manner. In other words, molecular science and engineering can fundamentally alter the way molecules are identified and designed for real-world usage. It is not enough to simply make molecules; we must make molecules work for a complex world.The notion of bringing researchers, industry and government communities together to work on grand challenges has a long and illustrious history – think, for instance, of the Manhattan Project, the industrial scale-up of penicillin and the Moon landings. More recently, the idea of ‘convergence’ – tackling grand challenges with a multifaceted array of scientists, engineers, clinicians and beyond – has become more formally recognised as a valuable way to stimulate societally important and ground-breaking research. Molecular science and engineering is a specific, yet far-reaching, part of this convergence landscape.Within the growing worldwide molecular science and engineering community, the Institute for Molecular Science and Engineering (IMSE) was founded in 2015 as Imperial College London’s newest Global Institute. The Institute’s overarching aim is to bring the College’s engineers, scientists, medics and business researchers together with awide array of external stakeholders – and to remove the boundaries between these disciplines – to find innovative molecular-based scie
AU  - Adjiman,CS
AU  - Harrison,NM
AU  - Weider,SZ
PY  - 2017///
TI  - Molecular science and engineering: a powerful transdisciplinary approach to solving grand challenges
T1  - Briefing paper
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/53609
ER  -
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