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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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Toronto’s Green Chemistry Initiative: Student-Led Education

Contributed by Laura M. Reyes, Ph.D. student and Green Chemistry Initiative Co-chair, University of Toronto.

As chemistry students advance through their education, they train and specialize to become better scientists. For those who pursue graduate school,

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Students Ask, We Tell: Opportunities for green chemistry students

Contributed by Ashley Baker, Research Assistant, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®

The ACS Green Chemistry Institute® has become a hub for green chemistry education and for students and educators to find new ways to integrate green chemistry into their curric

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Greening the ACS Student Chapter at Gordon College

Contributed by Irvin J. Levy, Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair, Gordon College.

Green Chemistry Principle #9 – Catalysis. As I look at the adventure that I have had over the past 25 years mentoring the ACS student chapter at Gordon College, eith

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Biodiesel Study in the International Context Using Technology Prospecting

Contributed by Clarissa A Biscainho, Diego Ss Aires, Sidney M C Chaves, Suzana Borschiver, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, School of Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering.

Concerns regarding the environment and growing necessity of technolo

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4th Industrial Green Chemistry World International Convention & Ecosystem

Asia’s flagship convention- “Industrial Green Chemistry World” (IGCW) is an ever growing global community of industry leaders and academic experts committed to forwarding and hand-holding the emerging field of “Green Chemistry & Green Engineering” among t

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Laboratory Safety Enhanced by Sustainability

Contributed by Ellen Sweet, Laboratory Ventilation Specialist, Cornell Department of Environmental Health and Safety; Mark Howe, Energy Manager, Cornell Department of Energy and Sustainability; and Spring Buck, Associate Director, Cornell Facilities Manag

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20th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference Call for Symposia

                  

Dates: June 14-16, 2016

Location: Portland, Oregon at the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower

Submission Deadline: October 16, 2015

Notification of acceptance by: November, 2015

The American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI

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Message from Director

Contributed by David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®

The 250th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society is rapidly drawing to a close. As always, I am appreciative that there has been a fair amount of green chemistry and relate

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Call for Symposia - 20th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference

For 20 years, the mission of the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute® (ACS GCI) has been to catalyze and enable the implementation of green chemistry and engineering throughout the global chemical enterprise. Innovation in sustainable and

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Our Future Energy and Chemicals: Biomass takes center stage

Contributed by Glaucia Mendes Souza, President of FAPESP Bioenergy Research Program BIOEN, University of São Paulo

Bioenergy is part of a larger transition to a bioeconomy in which bioproducts will be competing by means of efficiency and price. The last 5

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A Hot Topic is Cool Pigments

Contributed by Mark Ryan, Marketing Manager, Shepherd Color Co.

Shepherd Color specializes in CICP (Complex Inorganic Color Pigments) that provide durable color in the most demanding applications where heat, chemicals, UV and weathering conditions make oth

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Turning Waste Streams into High-Performance Polyols

Contributed by Dr. Gary Spilman, Principal Scientist, Resinate Materials Group®.

Environmental, health and safety concerns continue to drive rapid growth for environmentally friendly, low VOC coatings. This growth, further compounded by increased social aw

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The Role of Zeolite Catalysis in the Development of Bioplastics

Contributed by Michiel Dusselier, PhD, Dr. Joseph Breen Memorial Fellow, 2013. Postdoctoral researcher at Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Faculty of Bioscience engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium

The popularity of bioplastics - defined as being eit

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NFL Goes Green with TempLine™ Field Marking Paints

Contributed by Jim Brady, Vice President of Marketing and Sales, Eco Chemical, Inc.

This year, the NFL will be recognizing the 50th anniversary of the Super Bowl.  In preparation, the NFL has already set the wheels in motion for appropriate decoration of N

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A Roadmap for Green Chemistry Education: August Update

The 19th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference sparked an enthusiastic buzz around green chemistry education leading us up to the first education roadmap visioning workshop. The roadmap for green chemistry education project is a broad-scale, c

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