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Photocatalysis fascinates me. TiO2 is commonly used, a very cheap material.

It uses light (even sunlight) and oxygen to break down pollutants in air or water.

Other reactions can be devised for specific synthesis of desireable chemicals.

You can study kinetics, thermodynamics, chemical synthesis, and more by studying on photocatalysis. There are even efforts to use this type of system for solar cells.

2006-09-08 02:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by Iridium190 5 · 0 0

Okay here are some areas of research that involves chemistry.

It is huge depending upon whether you are interested in
inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry or, in my case, all of these and it led me to biochemistry (the chemistry of biological organisms) and biotechnology.

Inorganic chemistry: development of new metal oxides for use in e.g. space shuttle, medical devices, computers (electronics)
http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/archive/04-096.shtml

in organic chemistry: plastics, and adhesives (now they have just developed a new sticky skin called "gecko skin" Here is the website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5217240.stm,

in physical chemistry: how chemical reactions work at the atomic level (the subject of one Nobel Prize in 1986 by John Polanyi . Here is his acceptance lecuture: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1986/polanyi-lecture.html


There are other fields of chemistry which integrate or overlap with the three areas , and extend them to include other disciplines (biology, engineering, food, etc etc) to give you biochemistry (the chemistry of living organisms), chemical engineering (scale up of chemical processes to provide commercial products), food chemistry (chemistry of food, inlcuding processes (what happens in baking), new flavours new products.

Of course, all of the above areas have had a huge impact and are the basis for biotechnology - vaccines, medicines, gene therapy, medical tests, etc etc - not to mention, drugs, supplements, etc.

Chemistry is huge - and when you look at any one thing in your environment, there has likely been a step or a process that involved chemistry at some level.

2006-09-08 15:54:58 · answer #2 · answered by random.acts 3 · 0 0

Investigate the relationship between the Length of a hydrocarbon and its physical properties. Investigate only one aspect, are short hydrocarbons better lubricants? or are longer hydrocarbons better lubricants?

Your teacher might ask you about hydrocarbons.

Do some reading about it.

Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrocarbons

2006-09-08 04:42:36 · answer #3 · answered by Roy G. Biv 3 · 0 0

Umm.. I guess I'll start with the stuff I did last year. I worked with various metal carbonyls and attempted to react them with a diphosphine ligand with a high bite angle to see if I could get a close metal-metal bond. Now, inorganic might not be your area of interest, but I dunno.

2006-09-08 04:33:05 · answer #4 · answered by seikenfan922 3 · 0 0

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