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Virtual Special Issue: Chemistry’s Impact on the Global Economy Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is pleased to publish this virtual special issue (VSI), which contains 19 invited research articles from authors who made outstanding presentations at the 254th ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC. The theme of the National Meeting was “Chemistry’s Impact on the Global Economy”, and globalization is evident in this VSI, with contributions coming from authors on four different continents. The invited papers were selected from a broad cross section of symposia, and most of the contributions deal with polymers or catalysts. Each of these materials are vitally important in the global economy. Polymeric materials can be end products and catalytic materials enable synthesis of other chemical products. Chemistry plays a huge role in both the manufacture and use of catalytic and polymeric materials. This compilation is our fifth virtual special issue containing invited papers from an ACS National Meeting (http://pubs. acs.org/page/iecred/vi/applied-chemistry-economy-washdc2018). Six of the articles1−6 deal with catalysis or new catalytic materials for reactions such as CO2 hydrogenation to make oxygenates or hydrocarbons,1,6 water gas shift,5 and photodegradation.2 Nine of the articles7−15 focus on some aspect of macromolecular chemistry. These articles consider biological/ biomedical applications7,8,11,13,15 and methods for producing polyols with unique architecture,8 precision polyolefins,10 and polymer brushes.11,12 Several articles16−18 have a connection to energy production, utilization, or storage and illustrate ways that chemistry plays a role in powering the global economy; others tackle environmental problems.2,19 We trust that this VSI with invited papers from the 254th ACS National Meeting will be valued by both our authors and our readers.
Zeolite Studied by Synchrotron Based Time-resolved X-ray Diffraction. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (14), 4988−4995. (5) Hook, A.; Nuber, T. P.; Celik, F. E. Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Role of Cocatalytic Water in Water Gas Shift Reaction over Anatase TiO2(101). Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (24), 8131−8143. (6) Bahruji, H.; Armstrong, R. D.; Ruiz Esquius, J.; Jones, W.; Bowker, M.; Hutchings, G. J. Hydrogenation of CO2 to dimethyl ether over Brønsted acidic PdZn catalysts. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (20), 6821−6829. (7) Shibayama, M.; Li, X.; Sakai, T. Gels: From Soft Matter to BioMatter. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (4), 1121−1128. (8) Linhardt, A.; König, M.; Iturmendi, A.; Henke, H.; Brüggemann, O.; Teasdale, I. Degradable, dendritic polyols on a branched polyphosphazene backbone. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (10), 3602−3609. (9) Kurek, P. N.; Kloster, A. J.; Weaver, K. A.; Manahan, R.; Allegrezza, M. L.; De Alwis Watuthanthrige, N.; Boyer, C.; Reeves, J. A.; Konkolewicz, D. How do Reaction and Reactor Conditions affect Photoinduced Electron/Energy Transfer Reversible Addition Fragmentation Transfer Polymerization? Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (12), 4203−4213. (10) Kieber, R. J., III; Neary, W. J.; Kennemur, J. G. Viscoelastic, Mechanical, and Glasstomeric Properties of Precision Polyolefins Containing a Phenyl Branch at Every Five Carbons. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (14), 4916−4922. (11) Dehghani, E. S.; Ramakrishna, S. N.; Spencer, N. D.; Benetti, E. M. Engineering Lubricious, Biopassive Polymer Brushes by SurfaceInitiated, Controlled Radical Polymerization. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (13), 4600−4606. (12) Higaki, Y.; Inutsuka, Y.; Ono, H.; Yamada, N. L.; Ikemoto, Y.; Takahara, A. Counter Anion-Specific Hydration States of Cationic Polyelectrolyte Brushes. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (15), 5268− 5275. (13) Adhikari, S.; Richter, B.; Mace, Z. S.; Sclabassi, R. J.; Cheng, B.; Whiting, D. M.; Averick, S.; Nelson, T. L. Organic Conductive Fibers as Non-metallic Electrodes and Neural Interconnects. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (23), 7866−7871. (14) McClain, C. C.; Brown, C. G.; Flowers, J.; Nguyen, V. Q.; Boyd, D. A. Optical Properties of Photopolymerized Thiol-Ene Polymers Fabricated Using Various Multivinyl Monomers. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.2018 DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b00856. (15) Hu, R.; Yang, G.; Ding, H.-m.; Ma, J.; Ma, Y.-q.; Gan, J.; Chen, G. The competition between supramolecular interaction and proteinprotein interaction in protein crystallization: Effects of crystallization method and small molecular bridge. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (19), 6726−6733. (16) Luning Prak, D. J.; Ye, S.; McLaughlin, M.; Trulove, P. C.; Cowart, Jim S. Bio-based Diesel Fuel Analysis and Formulation and Testing of Surrogate Fuel Mixtures. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (2), 600−610. (17) Chang, L.; Stacchiola, D. J.; Hu, Yun H. Design and Synthesis of 3D Potassium-Ion Pre-Intercalated Graphene for Supercapacitors. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (10), 3610−3616. (18) Ji, Y.; Wei, Q.; Sun, Yugang Superior Capacitive Performance Enabled by Edge-oriented and Interlayer-expanded MoS2 Nanosheets Anchored on Reduced Graphene Oxide Sheets. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (13), 4571−4576.
Phillip E. Savage, Editor-in-Chief
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Phillip E. Savage: 0000-0002-7902-3744 Notes
Views expressed in this editorial are those of the author and not necessarily the views of the ACS.
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(1) Wang, W.; Jiang, X.; Wang, X.; Song, C. Fe−Cu Bimetallic Catalysts for Selective CO2 Hydrogenation to Olefin-Rich C2+ Hydrocarbons. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (13), 4535−4542. (2) Zhang, G.; Chen, L.; Fu, X.; Wang, H. Cellulose MicrofiberSupported TiO2@Ag Nanocomposites: A Dual-Functional Platform for Photocatalysis and in situ Reaction Monitoring. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (12), 4277−4286. (3) Zhao, Y.; Shan, B.; Wang, Y.; Zhou, J.; Wang, S.; Ma, X. An Effective CuZn-SiO2 Bimetallic Catalyst Prepared by Hydrolysis Precipitation Method for the Hydrogenation of Methyl Acetate to Ethanol. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (13), 4526−4534. (4) Hu, M.; Hanson, J. C.; Wang, X. Structure and Thermal Stability of (H2O)4 Tetrahedron and (H2O)6 Hexagon Adsorbed on NaY © 2018 American Chemical Society
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DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.8b02850 Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57, 8833−8834
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(19) Moreno, D.; Hatzell, M. C. The influence of feed-electrode concentration differences in flow-electrode systems for capacitive deionization. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2018, 57 (26), 8802−8809.
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