Kenneth Hancock Memorial Award Recipients

Sarah Ellis
Queen's University, Canada
CO₂-responsive agents for water filtration

Stephanie McCartney
Columbia University
Sustainable production of fertilizer using human urine and waste resources

Ariel Fernandez
University of Costa Rica
Cigarette butts treatment: a new alternative for a simple hazard

Metin Karayilan
University of Arizona
Biomimetic metallopolymers with enhanced catalytic activity for sustainable hydrogen production in neutral water

Mevan Dissanayake
University of South Carolina
Anion pool synthesis for electrochemical derivatization of pharmaceutical compounds

Emily Roberts
University of Southern California
High-throughput, continuous flow synthesis of nanoparticle catalysts as a safe and sustainable nanomanufacturing method

Adam Fisher
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Magnetic carbon nanocomposite for water treatment

Julian West
Princeton University
Design of new, sustainable chemical reactions through Earth-abundant element photocatalysis

Austin Evans
Flinders University/The University of Tulsa
A sulfur-limonene polysulfide synthesized entirely from industrial byproducts and its use in removing toxic metals from water and soil

Jesse Vanderveen
Queen’s University
Switchable hydrophilicity solvents: Benign alternatives to volatile organic solvents for syntheses, extractions, and separations

Leah K. Rubin Shen
University of California, Berkeley
Use of nitrogen heterocycles as virtual hydrogen storage materials: An electrochemical and toxicological study

Alan Medina-Gonzalez
Augsburg College
Continuous flow chemistry for the synthesis of amides from nitriles and amines

Heather Buckley
University of California, Berkeley
Functionalized metallocorroles for covalent tethering to an electrode surface: A platinum-free oxygen reduction catalyst for PEM fuel cells

Florence Chardon
University of California, Berkeley
Development of a ternary solvent blend for chromatography

Cristina de Salas
Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
SynDeNOx, recycling of nitrogen monoxide through carbonitrosation reactions

Lindsay Soh
Yale University
Towards efficient biodiesel production using carbon dioxide

Keary Mark Engle
The Scripps Research Institute
Ligand-accelerated catalysis in Palladium(II)-mediated C-H functionalization

Sean Mercer
Queen's University
The development of "switchable water": A CO₂-switchable aqueous solvent

Huan Cong
Boston University
Silver nanoparticles: A novel catalyst for green and biomimetic synthesis of anticancer natural products

Swapnil Jadhav
The City University of New York
Functional molecular gelators from crop-based feedstock

Laura Allen
Yale University
Atom economical alcohol activation with inexpensive and non-toxic catalysts

Madhav Ghanta
University of Kansas
A greener, energy efficient process for making ethylene oxide

Joseph Binder
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Simple chemical transformation of lignocellulosic biomass and olefin metathesis in aqueous solvents

Johnathan Gorke
University of Minnesota
Enzymatic synthesis in deep eutectic solvents

Lallie McKenzie
University of Oregon
High-throughput, low-waste synthesis of well-defined nanoparticles in microcapillary flow reactors

Arsen Simonyan
State University of New York
Characterization and use of linear-dendritic copolymers as building blocks of supramolecular nanoreactors for green chemistry

Arani Chanda
Carnegie Mellon University
Applications and mechanistic understanding of Fe-TAML^® activators of peroxide – A green oxidation catalysis system

Jennifer Haghpanah
Polytechnic University
Investigating cutinases for the deacetylation of polyvinyl acetate

Ke Min
Carnegie Mellon University
Atom transfer radical polymerization in aqueous dispersed media

Anindya Ghosh
Carnegie Mellon University
Synthesis and application of green catalytic oxidation systems using Fe-tetraamido macrocyclic ligand activators and hydrogen peroxide

Amy Cannon
University of Massachusetts, Boston
The environmentally benign synthesis of materials for dye-sensitized solar cells

Richard Swatloski 
The University of Alabama
Dissolution and reconstitution of cellulose without derivatization or pretreatment: A 'green' utilization of ionic liquids where traditional solvents fail

Nicolay Tsarevsky
Carnegie Mellon University
Preparation of well-defined (co)polymers by atom transfer radical polymerization in aqueous media

Biana Sculimbrene
Boston College
Biomimetic synthesis, biomimetic catalysis: Concise synthesis of D-myo-Inositol-1-Phosphate

Richard Brown
University of California, Davis
Reactions in alternative reaction media and exploring the effect of alternative media on selectivity

Clayton Bunyard
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Perfluoropolyethers: From environmentally benign synthesis to nontoxic fouling release coatings

Jeanne Jennings
University of South Carolina