biomimetic chemistry

...Research into enzyme-like functional substances will require collaboration with biology through biochemistry, while research into new materials will require collaboration with solid-state physics through physical chemistry. Biomimetic chemistry, which seeks to reproduce in the laboratory the highly selective chemical reactions that occur in the mild environment of the body of an organism, will likely continue to expand and develop as we move into the 21st century. The segmentation of academic fields was one of the major characteristics of science in the 20th century, but on the other hand, as can be seen from the widespread use of terms such as interdisciplinary fields and interdisciplinary research, a movement toward integrating various academic fields is also progressing in parallel. ...

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…酵素様機能物質の研究は生化学を仲介として生物学との協同を，新材料の研究は物理化学を介して固体物理学との協同を必要としよう。生物の体内という穏やかな環境で高選択的に起こる化学反応を実験室で再現しようという生物機能化学biomimetic chemistryは，21世紀に向けてさらに拡大発展しよう。学問の細分化は20世紀の科学の一つの大きな特徴であったが，反面，境界領域，学際的研究といった言葉も広く用いられたように，学問の諸分野の総合化の動きも並行して進んでいる。…

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