Molecular Mechanical Engineering

Owing to the progress of techniques and technology with high performance and high efficiency, fundamental understanding of their phenomena and functions from the elementary processes of molecular motion has increasingly been required. This leads to the introduction of "molecular mechanical engineering" which forms a bridge between microscopic molecular understanding (molecular science) and macroscopic continuum engineering (mechanical engineering). The former should be viewed not as an isolated science itself but as fundamental subsystems of the latter. With respect to "molecular mechanical engineering, " we discuss and review its scientific philosophy, how it will be developed and extended, and how it will contribute to further advances in mechanical engineering technology.