Reflections-how this is related to knowledge and skills acquired from various subjects

We can connect with the concept of a growing chemical industry and that it is central to the world's economy. The chemical industry has become so vital in our daily life because of its widespread applicatons-it converts raw materials into more than 70,000 products. Chemicals are used to make a variety of consumer goods.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_industry)

Such widespread applications of the chemical industry leads to greater efficiency and lower economic costs of production of the various consumer goods. As researchers delve into creating products whose properties are more specific to the different functions, these products become more specialised. For example in reverse osmosis, it is found that the earliest membranes, made from either polyamide fibers or cellulose acetate sheets, were fragile and had short life spans, often no longer than three years. Thus, researchers are sourcing out other possibilities for the thin membranes-a sign of the search for more specialised products to be used as the thin membranes. (Source: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00046D87-0EF4-1C71-84A9809EC588EF21&pageNumber=1&catID=2)

As future products will have more specialised functions/properties and be more selective to their usages. Thus, this increases the efficiency of the system as products are more specialised to their functions. This idea of increased efficiency runs parallel to the division of labour of cells in a complex living organism in Biology.

Physics and Mathematics are also very related to the Chemistry of Jurong Island. For example, in stoichemistry (the calculation of quantitative relationships of the reactants and products in chemical reactions) and thermodynamics (a study on the effects of changes in temperature, pressure, and volume on physical systems at the macroscopic scale by analyzing the collective motion of their particles using statistics). Stiochemistry and thermodynamics are especially important in ensuring efficiency and high productivty in the production of useful chemicals.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org)