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Chemical Innovations that will Blow Your Mind

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Helena William
Chemical Innovations that will Blow Your Mind

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has released a line-up of chemical innovations for 2019 which they think will change the world. The list is quite interesting (and surprising) are reads like science fiction fantasies!

New chemical processes and techniques are also being discovered every day.

There is a flow synthesis technique that requires specialized equipment but is safer, cheaper, and yields better than batch production – both in the laboratory and at the industry-scale level. It can be automated to run thousands of reactions a day. When combined with polymer synthesis, flow chemistry can be used to create new compounds that are difficult to produce in a flask.

Some other innovations included in the list were enzymes created through directed evolution, breaking down polymers into monomers (to make plastics biodegradable), radicals that can be deactivated and reactivated for improved polymerization reactions, and 3D bioprinting materials that can be used to print skin grafts, medical implants, bones, vessels, cartilage structures, and entire organs.

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