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5 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5 FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Pages 70-76
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The impact of catalysis on the nation's economy is clearly evident from the fact that catalytic technologies generate sales in excess of $400 billion per year and a net positive balance of trade of $16 billion annually. Although the chemical industry in the United States remains strong, it faces increasing competitive challenges from the European Community and Japan, and in fact, the three largest chemical companies are no longer based in the United States but rather in Germany.
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To take advantage of these opportunities, careful attention must be given to effective use of the nation's resources, so that the United States can maintain its leadership role. The balance of this chapter presents specific recommendations for action by industry, academe, the national laboratories, and the federal government.
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Vehicles for this include · long-term consulting arrangements involving regular interactions with industrial researchers, · sabbaticals for industrial scientists in academic or government laboratories, · sabbaticals for academic or government scientists in industrial laboratories, industrial internships for students, · industrial postdoctoral programs, and jointly organized symposia on topics of industrial interest.
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They have been highly effective in developing novel instrumentation for catalyst characterization, operating large-scale user facilities (i.e., synchrotron radiation sources, pulsed neutron sources, and atomic resolution microscopes) , and applying the most advanced experimental and theoretical techniques to study structure-function relationships critical for understanding catalysis at the molecular level.
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This recommendation is consistent with the Bush administration's proposal to double the NSF budget over the next five years and with a recent statement by Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Sciences, that doubling the research budgets of all federal agencies should be a goal for the 1990s. Recognizing the need for federal agencies to maintain flexibility and to encourage creative scientists who propose to explore new directions and ideas, the panel recommends that priority be given to the following five areas:
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· Development and application of theoretical methods for predicting the structure and stability of catalysts, as well as the energetics and dynamics of elementary processes occurring during catalysis, and use of this information for the design of novel catalytic cycles and catalytic materials and structures. · Investigation of novel catalytic approaches for the production of chemicals and fuels in an environmentally benign fashion, the production of fuels from non-petroleum sources, the catalytic abatement of toxic emissions, and the selective synthesis of enantiomerically pure products.
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