Analytical Chemistry in Innovation Time
During the 20th century and the first decade of the 21rst, the chemical world together to other sciences such as information technology, instrumentation and automation, chemometrics, optics, image technology, magnetic fields, nanotechnology, physics and other scientific areas, underwent huge developments, working together to cover a wide field of applications like energy, petrochemicals, medicine, nutrition, the environment, green chemistry and many other areas to promote the development and improvement of science and industry, for the benefit of the community.
Looking forward, BrJAC has been created with the main objective of promoting integration and partnerships between academy and industry, of improving communication and propagating knowledge and development in chemistry. Certainly, after five issues of great publications we can affirm that the intended success has been achieved and we may sustain the expectation of great improvement in the next editions.
However under industry's optics, the great benefits of all this work is the capability to transform the results obtained into practical and wide applications in industrial activities to improve their productivity, competitiveness and profits, as well economic and social development. In this case we must have in mind the importance of some complementary, but not less important, tools, such as quality assurance, metrology and also the standardization process as an important subject because its final objective is know-how consolidation in such a way that it can be easily and widely used.
In the research and development field of knowledge this seems to be a little distant and difficult to achieve, but in fact the production of a technical standard should be seen as the last step of the development process, where new discoveries are transformed into an easy and simple procedures, processes, test methods or even new instruments. This is one practical way that can be used to effectively improve industry quality.
Keeping in mind that quality assurance, metrology and standardization are interesting possibilities to promote the continuity of our work, we wish you a nice reading of this issue of BrJAC.
Maura Moreira
Editor