Advances in Chemical Modeling. Volume 6 (eBook)

In today's modern economy, and in strategic management more precisely, which is often driven by scientific and technological research-development and innovations, the best position in a market is held by the so called advantage - competitive, sustainable, or perennial! Competitive associates are in the so called "e;red oceans"e; where firms, products, and organizations offer and compete for the same customer segment. Perennial advantage associates, in contrast, create "e;blue oceans"e; by which new products and markets couple and create "e;peaceful waves"e; and a no-competition landscape! But what about sustainability? Sustainability may be regarded as a sub-class of perenniality and might eventually end the disruptive innovation that potentially attracts and converts non-customers to actual customers in a "e;blue ocean"e; enterprise! However, sustainability is not necessarily related to durability - that is a measure of time after all; it instead address a strategic development by which a product or service, once created, can be returned to its original components without affecting the environment, whenever it is necessary, by present of future generations! It is therefore a two sided attribute of products, services and processes, with a high degree of "e;cybernetics"e; inside, in the sense of inverse-connections, feed-back, and integrated-parts-in-whole construct. In modern chemistry, the so called nano-chemistry, sustainability means: controlling design, controlling synthesis, atomic-and-molecular memory, intelligent materials that are able to reverse their entropy at certain stimulus and triggering points, etc. This is what we may call sustainable nano-chemistry! It is still a large idealization of most chemical processes, yet it is fulfilled by certain parts of chemical research, especially those involved in nano-science and technology with sustainable degrees! Aiming to document this desirable and sustainable future of nano-chemistry, the present volume, while continuing the precedent in the series, contains world class chapters in the allied fields of Structural Physical Chemistry, Structural Modeling Chemistry, Nano-chemistry by Graph Theory, Nano-chemistry by Molecular Topology, QSAR (Quantitative-Structure-Activity Relationships), and Frontier Theories in Physical-Chemistry.