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The Nexus Blog and Newsletter is published by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® to connect and expand the global green chemistry and engineering community. Learn more about us: www.acs.org/gci.
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Message from the Director: ACS GCI and Change Chemistry at Climate Week NYC 2024
By Adelina Voutchkova, Director of Sustainable Development, ACS Director of Sustainable Development and the Green Chemistry Institute

Dispatch on the inaugural Sustainability Leader Summit, ACS/EPA Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, and December's upcoming

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The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Announces Eight 2024 Grant Winners
By Vittoria Valentine, ACS GCI Industry Portfolio Administrative Assistant

Eight researchers from the United States, Canada, and Europe have been awarded research grant funding totaling $480,000 from the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundt

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Green Chemistry Education Modules for Thinking Beyond the Textbook
Contributed by David A. Laviska, Portfolio Manager for Green Chemistry and Sustainability in Education, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

The ACS GCI is addressing the urgent need for more green and sustainable chemistry throughout higher education, introduci

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PFAS Degradation Technologies for Decontaminating Water
Contributed by Ashley Baker, Scientific Content and Community Manager (Contractor), ACS Green Chemistry Institute

As our virtual Clean Water Summit approaches on December 11, we had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Kimberly Heck about the promising resu

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Graduate Students Present 2025 Symposium “Bonds That Matter: Soft Materials for a Sustainable World"
Contributed by ACS GSSPC Spring 2025 Organizers Dallin Smith, Ethan Iverson, Danixa Rodriguez-Melendez, Maya Montemayor, and Sarah Fisher

From textiles to biomedical devices, soft materials can be found across industries. Research to make them more sustai

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Announcing the 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award Winners!
Contributed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Explore this year’s 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award (GCCA) winners, and join us in celebrating the creative solutions and sustainable practices they are contributing to the chemical enterprise.

Contri

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Data Sharing to Advance Sustainable and Green Chemistry
By Christiana Briddell, Communication Portfolio Manager, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

At the recent ACS Fall 2024 meeting held in August in Denver, Colorado, NSF's Division of Chemistry and the ACS jointly hosted a symposium with leaders from government,

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Proposed PFAS Restriction Signals Supply Chain Shift, Need for Innovation in Pharmaceutical Industry
By Cecilia Smith, Administrative Assistant, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Industry experts share how the European Chemicals Agency's recent proposed ban on PFAS stands to change the pharmaceutical industry and why addressing PFAS in supply chains is so co

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ACS GCI Welcomes Founding Members to the Natural Polymers Roundtable
By Christiana Briddell, Portfolio Manager, Communications, ACS GCI, and Isamir Martinez, Sr. Scientific Alliances and Business Engagement Manager, ACS GCI

Natural polymers are of high interest as biobased feedstocks, materials, packaging, and consumer pro

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At the nexus of green chemistry and environmental justice, everyone has something to contribute.
Contributed by Jarod Davis, Global Policy Director, Social Equity at Dow

Co-Authored with Ashley Baker, Scientific Content Manager (Contractor) at the ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Jarod Davis, Global Policy Director, Social Equity at Dow, shared his jour

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The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards: Impacts and Success Stories
Contributed by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute

Highlighting three decades of benefits to human health and the environment, cross-sector collaboration, and innovation for the future.

In May 2024, leaders from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (E

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Advancing Circularity through the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
Contributed by Edmond Lam, Assistant Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute

As this year’s winners convene in just two weeks at Climate Week NYC for the 2024 EPA/ACS Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Ceremony, we’re simultaneously preparing to welcome app

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U.S. National Science Foundation provides $26 million to fund new Engineering Research Center
By Mark B. Shiflett, Ph.D., Foundation Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas and Director of the NSF ERC Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH).

The Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) Engineering Researc

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Introducing the Acid-Base Selection Tool
Contributed by Charlotte Dalton, Scientific Group Leader at CatSci, Ltd.

A new, publicly available tool developed by the ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable enables chemists to filter and choose from over 200 acids and bases for the design of more sustainab

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Explore the Intersection of Chemistry & Climate Action on the Chemistry for Sustainability Platform
By Ashley Baker, Scientific Content Manager (Contractor) at the ACS Green Chemistry Institute.

We’re highlighting the key role chemists and engineers have in addressing climate change. We invite you to explore the collection of resources on this topic on

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