An area in my day-to-day life where chemistry is often overlooked is in my favorite hobby: baking. When baking, unless you are creating something new, you often follow a recipe to reach an end product. The recipe is …show more content…
According to the American Chemical Society, many properties of clothing ranging from color to warmth to clothing’s elasticity is the work of a textile chemist (2016). Textile chemistry allows us to create synthetic fibers to produce clothing that is finely tuned to a certain situation, allowing athletes to stay cool during a match and mountain climbers warm during an excursion. Synthetic fibers also allow the everyday person to go out in a torrential downpour then to dry quickly once inside. This is accomplished through the use of water resistant materials in raincoats and …show more content…
Computational chemistry is a field of chemistry “where the computer is used as an ‘experimental’ tool, much like, for example, an NMR spectrometer” (Jensen, 2013, p. 2). According to Jensen, in computational chemistry “the primary focus is on solving chemically related problems by calculations” (Jensen, 2013, p. xv). These calculations are done with computer simulations. These simulations include all aspects of chemistry and help to speed up the pace of theoretical chemistry. The first computer simulation of a liquid took place in 1953 at the Los Alamos National Laboratories (Hinechliffe, 2006, p. vi) and is considered to be influential in the field of computational chemistry. This success at Los Alamos laid the foundation for the simulation techniques that are used by computational chemists today (Allen & Tildesley, 1989, p. 2). In spite of this early success computational chemistry was held back for many years due to the cost to performance ratio of computers available. However, the cost of hardware has been decreasing while its performance has been increasing, allowing the ratio to become more reasonable and computational chemistry to flourish (Jensen, 2013, p.