CHEMISTRY IN SMALL CUBES?

When one thinks of industrial chemistry, what comes to mind?Extensive factories and gigantic distillation columns, extractionplants and vessels with industrial stirrers. Such plants make their presenceknown in the vicinity, day and night. And the thought of minia-turization was simply unimaginable here for a very long time.What are the causes of the dramatic change that microreaction technology is bringing about?Two of them are the changes in market requirements and theavailability of technologies that were previously unknown!