The chemical industry is based on the extraction and processing of raw materials that will then be used in a variety of sectors; it allows us to obtain and manipulate materials and substances to cover our technological and, by extension, physical needs. It is an industry in constant change and with a latent need for optimization and development, as well as the preservance of certain economic and environmental sustainability standards.

The powerful impact of photonics in this industrial framework does not go unnoticed, since it is a technological revolution capable of offering the industry a new scene of capabilities – and its own development – that cover the needs and challenges of the chemical industry is and will be facing, together with a renewed efficiency and significant reduction of short and long-term costs.

Light technologies catalyze industrial chemical processes, as well as open new synthesis, processing quality control and analysis routes. The emergence of new optical sensors, characterization techniques through spectroscopy, laser stimulation, crystallography by X-ray diffraction, coating through sputtering and new ways of reading optical stimuli to obtain and transmit information, enables us to witness the industrial and technological revolution that photonics mean to chemistry.

All in all, we find ourselves in a field with a constant need for renewal and optimization, while there’s a new factor coming into play: photonics, with new capabilities and potentials which allow us to promote the adaptation and aptitudes of the chemical sector in all its transversality.

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