PLASTIC DOMINATES WORLD
ECONOMIC
BY PELLEGRINO MUSTO
N ow in this modern world,
the use of polymers has
grown widely throughout
the globe. But the main is whether
research and development in this
field is important for a country to
create competition between nations.
A revolution has taken place over
the last 50 years in the of synthetic
polymers, whose applications have
rapidly permeated most aspects our
daily aspect. The term ‘’plastic’’
usually used for polymer even
though not all synthetic polymer is
plastic. Polymer is a part of our life
or in other word Polymer have
become an essential and important
thing in our life. Thing like
clothing, computer and mostly thing
made by largely of polymers. Our
life will be hard if Polymer doesn’t
exist. Yes, it can’t be denied that
sometime this polymer thing’s give
us bad effect such as environmental
pollution issue and safety for human
and wild life, but this problem can
still be repaired to the point that it
has no adverse effects exist.
What Is the benefit of Polymers?
Furthermore, the research about
polymer considered as the most
challenging subject that is the main
focus of The Special Section
Frontier of polymer chemistry.
Progress in the polymer is proven
by the awarding of two important
Nobel prizes (Flory, 1974; de
Gennes, 1991). Polymer
Technology has given many
benefits to the scientist by making
their job easier such as membranes
for gas mixtures separation, barrier
structures for food packaging and
durability. More people has become
closer in understanding the
molecular spectrum that provides a
great deal of information about the
molecular that content in a contact.
Indeed, molecular mechanics and
molecular dynamics methods are
very important to reduce problems
related to biopolymers, organic
synthetic polymers or inorganic
polymers for multiple coarse
modelling. This field has been
recognized with the awarding of the
2013 Nobel Prize in chemistry to
three key players in the arena,
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and
Arieh Warshel “for the
development of a multiscale model
for complex chemical systems” as
stated by the Prize Motivation.
Research on natural and renewable
sources of polymers has been
carried out around the world
because of two issues. First,
environmental have arisen due to
following increased production and
disposal of conventional synthetic
polymers and the desire to reduce
dependence on western
petrochemical oil production. So
vegetable oil has been used as a
very suitable alternative because it
is more properties such as
affordable, the functional groups
present therein can be suitably
activated for polymerization and
can be renewable.
Currently like
we know, the use of polymers has
been widely used in different forms.
Polymers mostly have been
considered as competitiveness
among all nation around the globe
especially Malaysia I think. As
examples in economics,
transportation, energy and defense.
It is important to maintain the
stability pf this technology in a
country such as the strength pf
science and engineering polymers to
create a good country and until it
become a good example to other
country. But many issues have been
raised that concern this field area,
both financially and politically. This
has led many companies to decide
to cut back on long-term research.
Meanwhile, university research
budgets are under pressure. The
Federal funding, that the major
factor in the United State for
military research and
development have step back after
the cold war end. As the result,
the need for investment didn’t get
many encouragement or in other
word the investment prospect are
under threat. But all these
problems can be mitigated by
providing many job opportunities
to people. With the advance
Polymers Science and Engineering,
many parties will be attracting to
invest in this sector. So there is
nothing to worry about. For your
information, development of
Polymers has been divided into
several parts:
1.National Defense
2.Energy and Transportation
3.Housing and Constuction
4.Environment
Last but not least, how much
Polymers Science and Engineering
can survive depends on how much
benefits this field can provide for
the nations.