化工协会已经确定了英国化学工业在90年代应集中力量的四个关键领域。它们是电子学、先进材料、医疗和食品。光电子学被视为是一个主要的成长领域,“从纯度、物理性能以及化学功能的角度看来,通过物理学和化学的携手合作,将会开辟出一片新的天地。”虽然化学工业在研究方面的花费比英国的其他工业都多,1985年达8亿4千万英镑,但 The Chemical Society has identified four key areas where the British chemical industry should concentrate in the 1990s. They are electronics, advanced materials, medical and food. Optoelectronics is seen as a major area of ​​growth, “and from a purely physical, chemical and physical point of view, a new world opens up through a combination of physics and chemistry.” While the chemical industry is researching It costs more than any other British industry, reaching 840 million pounds in 1985, though