From renewable fuels to creating the materials for the technology of tomorrow, chemistry plays a pivotal role in advancing the world that we live in. Meet the chemists who are working to build that better world and see how their science is making it happen.
Vijay Kapur discusses a comprehensive scope of hydrogen in the energy economy including its energy content compared to natural gas, cost comparison with fossil fuels, its role in energy storage and more.
Learn how chemistry is being used to harness valuable carbons and create a true circular economy for plastics. Including how new chemical pathways for decomposing plastic waste into novel monomers that can be upcycled into high-performing polymers
Dr. Victor McCrary, and Dr. Barbara Sawrey, have a discussion of Vision 2030 and the actions the U.S. government, scientific societies like ACS, institutions, and others need to take so that the U.S. remains a global leader in innovation in 2030.
Peter Mahaffy and MaryKay Orgill introduce the essential characteristics of a systems thinking approach in chemistry education and discuss why a systems thinking approach can prepare students to be global citizens that support a sustainable future.
Join a panel of entrepreneurs, architects, and engineers as they present advances in the sustainable use of resources in residential housing that can be applied to both existing and new residential dwellings.
Dan Bailey of Takeda Pharmaceuticals discusses the a process used to manufacture an investigational drug substance almost entirely in water, including multiple controlled isolations from aqueous media.
Dave Horton and Brian Price review the current chemistries and water management practices in hydraulic fracturing and discuss efforts, potential opportunities and a call for innovation to use environmentally acceptable alternatives.
Join Coray Colina of the University of Florida and Theresa Reineke of the University of Minnesota as they discuss what make the combo of proteins and synthetic polymers so unique and share how molecular simulations are helping to elucidate the structure, function, and dynamics of such molecular chimeras.
Lawrence Silverman of the University of Virginia discusses how popular wearable monitors can be a source of medical data and what kind of data can be collected. .
Marek Urban and Christopher Bowman discuss the promising approach of autonomous self-healing polymers and covalent adaptable networks, which may provide revolutionary applications in energy, transportation, medicine, recycling, and homeland security.
John Wasylyk and Bob Wethman of Bristol-Myers Squibb share how spectroscopy-based analyses can provide real-time or near real-time data that lead to enhanced productivity and a faster method transfer process.
3D printing is revolutionizing our world with advances in medicine, food, energy, and water technologies. Join Timothy Long, Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Virginia Tech and Rigoberto Advincula, Research Professor at Case Western Reserve University as they discuss methods and designs for advanced polymer materials.
Join Lenka Munoz of the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney and Patrick Sexton, from the University of Melbourne as she provides novel insights into the relationship between the tubulin code and MTA efficacy as well as discusses the role of cancer cell dormancy in the sensitivity of cancer cells to MTA.
Join Rohit Pappu of Washington University in St. Louis as he discusses the emerging aspects of the molecular grammar of multivalent proteins, as embodied in a stickers-and-spacers framework, which will help you understand the driving forces and functional implications of phase separation.
Prashant Nagpal of the University of Colorado Boulder discusses the development of living nano-biohybrid organisms that use sunlight to convert massive amounts of carbon dioxide, air, and water into biodegradable plastics, fuels and more.
Join Bruce Lipshutz of UC Santa Barbara as he demonstrates how chemistry in water is our only path to sustainablility using chemical, economic, and environmental reasons.
Join Senior Research Advisor Michael Kopach of Eli Lilly and Company during this free interactive broadcast as he demonstrates why the opportunities for innovations in sustainable chemistry for peptides and oligonucleotide syntheses are much greater than for small molecule chemistry.
Join Ken Kretchman of N.C. State University, Craig Merlic of UCLA, Debbie Decker of UC Davis as well as moderator Chuck Geraci of NIOSH, as they discuss the importance of managing products containing nanomaterials by integrating them into an existing lab safety program.
Join Richard Venditti of N.C. State University as he demonstrates that paper and pulp recycling is the renewable, biodegradable, and environmentally compatible solution that society desires.
Join Ramani Narayan of Michigan State University to discover the science of biodegradability and compostability, as well as identify the facts vs. the hype.
Mark DeWitt of the Innovative Genomics Initiative at UC Berkeley covers the clinical protocol being developed to correct the sickle cell disease mutation using CRISPR /Cas9 in hematopoietic stem cells.
Discover how assembling nano super-structures opens possibilities for new classes of multi-scale nanomaterials with unprecedented physical characteristics.
James Tour and William Sikkema of Rice University describe how rats that have had their spinal cords completely severed in two were restored to near perfect mobility.
James Hutchison discusses the foundations for greener nanotechnology and presents a case study that uses nanomaterial product innovation guided by green chemistry.
Stan Frey of Honeywell profiles their Green Jet Fuel™ program, which can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by 65 to 85% when compared to petroleum based fuels.
Brian Laird and Anthony Rappé discuss how their interdisciplinary research presents new approaches to designing and using catalysts that eliminate hazardous materials while minimizing waste and conserve resources.
Modern materials use an ever-increasing number of elements, and some supplies are running short. Learn how we can face this issue with Avatar Matharu, Paul Chirik and Roderick Eggert.
George Trainor gives a first-hand account of how an innovative culture led to the discovery of one of the most valuable synthetic organic compounds ever.
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