ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry

Award at a Glance

TypeAward
Recipient Industry, Faculty, Chemistry Professional, International
Category Sustainability,  Green Chemistry,  National Awards,  Community Recognition
Amount$15,000 + Expenses
DeadlineNovember 1, 2024

Purpose

The ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry recognizes outstanding scientific discoveries that lay the foundation for environmentally-friendly products or manufacturing processes at a cost comparable to or less than that of current technologies or discoveries that deliver new applications with compelling cost/benefit profiles. The award aims to identify and recognize the discovery of new eco-friendly chemistries with the potential to enable products or manufacturing processes that are less expensive than existing alternatives.

Description

The award will consist of $15,000 and a certificate. Up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed.

Eligibility

Nominee eligibility is neither contingent on the timeframe in which the technology was developed nor on demonstrated commercial success. Discoveries must have significant commercial potential, however, to be considered for the award. The award will be granted regardless of race, gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, presence of disabilities, and educational background.

Nominees may include:

  • Individuals
  • Research Teams (Maximum 3 Individuals)
  • Representatives From an Organization (Company, University, or National Laboratory)
  • Professors or Other Academic-Based Teams Whose Work Has Been Commercialized

Deadline

November 1 (Annual Review)

How to Apply

The nomination period for the ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry is open from July 1 to November 1 annually. Learn more about submitting a nomination for the ACS National Awards.

Selection Committee Rubric for the ACS Award for Affordable Green Chemistry (XLSX, 14 KB)

Judging Process

Priority may be given to nominees that represent organizations in a position to directly commercialize or to organizations that can participate in commercialization through technology transfer (i.e. academic institutions that have technology licensing programs).

Green chemistry principles and criteria are based on those employed in consideration of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute's Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.

Affordability and practicality of a qualified application are evidenced by discoveries that:

  • Conform to existing manufacturing infrastructures with little or no additional investment in equipment or personnel to operate the manufacturing process; or
  • Are totally new products whose economics are compelling even after considering market prices for currently available alternatives, costs of starting materials, manufacturing yield and throughput, manufacturing labor, and equipment and facilities costs.

Sponsor

Supported by an Endowed Fund Established by Rohm and Haas

History

The award was established in 2007 and has been supported since 2009 through an endowment by Rohm and Haas Company, now a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow.


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2024 Affordable Green Chemistry Award Recipients
2024 Recipients Tomislav Friščić (Second Left), Karthik Nagapudi (Center), and Stefan G. Koenig (First Right) are Presented with Their Awards by Mary K. Carroll, ACS President (First Left), and Sponsor Representative Mari Rosen (Second Right)
Photo by EPNAC.com

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