Structure, Surface, Interaction and Time

Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth and sale of new products in the field of functional materials, together with a relative decline in new products and new processes in the field of commodity chemicals. Different from the commodity chemicals which arecommonly produced by continuous processes in megaquantities, the functional materials are usually produced bybatch processes in small quantities. The utility of the functional materials depends not only on their chemical composition and purity but also on their structures and surfaces,which are governed by what occurs at a molecular/nano scale rather than at the process scale. What knowledge