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The design principles of green and sustainable chemistry and engineering provide researchers with new tools to create processes and products that cost less and are healthier and more sustainable. Try our green chemistry tools and get an overview of greener research areas.
Analytical Chemistry
Assessing the "greenness" of a reaction or product and developing safer and more efficient analytical techniques.
Biobased Chemicals
Breaking unsustainable and risky dependence on fossil carbon by developing new and existing chemicals from renewable sources.
Catalysis
Moving from stoichiometric to homogenous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions using greener organic, organometallic, inorganic and biological catalysts.
Endangered Elements
Managing the extraction, use, reuse, dispersion, and alternatives development for elements in the chemical enterprise that are facing critical supply risks.
Green Chemistry and
Engineering Metrics
Development and implementation of tools and metrics useful for analyzing the “greenness” of chemistries and processes.
Process Engineering
Designing processes, systems, and devices that minimize sustainability impacts of chemical products and/or reactions throughout their life cycle.
Rational Molecular Design
for Reduced Toxicity
Deriving information from empirical, mechanistic and computational methods to design chemicals that are less toxic.
Solvents
Techniques and applications for solvent replacement and/or removal in various process conditions, as well as sustainability assessment of solvents.
Waste to Chemicals
Transforming wastes and residues to energy, fuels and other useful chemicals.
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