When several ACS Central Science Editors met
for dinner at the 2015 Pacifichem meeting,
conversation turned to the grand challenges
facing science and society, and those we felt chemistry was in a
unique position to solve. With the New Year, we thought we
would share our ideas in our first editorial of 2016. The arenas
in which we see chemistry having the largest influence are the
molecular bases of disease and aging, alternative energy
advancement, and the conservation of our elemental resources
