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For decades we have relied on oil-derived raw materials for our chemical needs - now we’re turning our attention to renewable natural sources.

Chemistry is unique, because it is the only science which allows us to make things which have never been made before.

Chemistry researchers use the process of synthesis to make unprecedented new molecules, with new properties and potential for all sorts of things which can directly benefit society: advances in medicine, to make bigger, better TVs, such as OLEDs, or to make new fabrics which can make contaminated water drinkable.