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How far will chemistry take us – and not just for the worse? To clean up soils, study cloud formation or reproduce organs in 3D: why chemistry has not ceased to amaze us?
Chemistry: the science of matter and its transformations, which we love to hate (well, it’s ‘chemical’) and which is nevertheless omnipresent (and more than ever) in our daily lives. For better or for worse, our future depends a lot on its necessarily ambivalent developments. Because chemistry is everywhere and in Everything! Since the appearance of the first bricks of life, the first molecules, on earth and to the bottom of the oceans, but also in space!
Chemistry pollutes, but it can also cleanse when you understand its mechanisms and chain reactions … Did you know that you yourself do it several times a day in your kitchen? That we can also more poetically study the chemistry of clouds, or even artistically unveil the secrets of the great painters of the past of forgotten perfumes or uncorked wines … There is definitely something for everyone and of all colors!
With :
Olivier Parisel, research director at the Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory (LCT / UMR 7616 – CNRS & Sorbonne University).
The collective work Astonishednte chemistry, discoveries and promises of the 21st century published by Cnrs Éditions.
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