Contributed by David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®
Over the past year the quantity and diversity of articles published in The Nexus is one demonstration of just how much is happening in green chemistry and engineering. This is evidenc
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Life cycle assessment has become an important tool for companies to understand the environmental impact of their products, processes, or even whole company footprint from beginning to end. LCA’s measure the total flow of mass and energy (among other thing
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Throughout the 2013-2014 school year 97 undergraduate ACS Student Chapters achieved their goals to complete different green chemistry activities. To recognize their achievements, ACS Green Chemistry Institute® in partnership with ACS Education has present
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Contributed by Zachery Norman from Clean Chemistry Consulting, @CleanChemistry, for the ACS GCI 'What's Your Green Chemistry?' Campaign.
Our green chemistry involves moving the car wash chemical technology forward. Bringing 21st century chemical technolo
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Over the past several months, I’ve been traveling from coast to coast and abroad discussing the idea of a green chemistry and engineering education roadmap. The concept of a roadmap has emerged from listening to the needs of the green chemistry community.
... moreChemistry has historically been considered a discipline that could guarantee you a job. When chemistry is everything, how could it ever be otherwise? Unfortunately, in recent years in the United States we have begun to observe "otherwise." In 2012, an Ame
... moreContributed by Thomas P. Umile, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Gwynedd Mercy University
This summer, I decided to incorporate a hefty dose of green chemistry and sustainability (GCS) in my undergraduate organic chemistry course, as many other like-min
... moreBy David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®
This is going to be a necessarily shorter than usual post given the fact that it’s hard to maintain the pace of the last few months of travel.
In case you didn’t know, there are few states that ar
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A paper titled “Implementing Green Chemistry in Chemical Manufacturing: A Survey Report” by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute’s Chemical Manufacturer’s Roundtable was published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering on September 2, 2014. In order to a
... moreLong before humans figured out how to create colors, nature had already perfected the process — think stunning, bright butterfly wings of many different hues, for example. Now scientists are tapping into those secrets to develop a more environmentally fri
... moreDr. Anne E. Marteel-Parrish of Washington College and Dr. Martin A. Abraham of Youngstown State University have put together a new textbook for general chemistry titled, “Green Chemistry and Engineering: A pathway to sustainability.” For college students
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A review of some of the talks presented at the 2014 GC&E Conference from the session, “Green Chemistry Beyond the Bachelor’s Degree”
From effective communication to interactive learning, this year’s Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference (gcande.org) h
... moreContributed by Amy Hawthorne, Marketing Assistant at ReAgent, for the ACS GCI What's Your Green Chemistry? Campaign
As a chemical manufacturer, ReAgent has to be cautious about waste and ensure we’re continuously finding new ways to reduce toxic waste and
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Contributed by Dr. Francesca Kerton, Associate Professor at Memorial University, for the ACS GCI What's Your Green Chemistry? Campaign
Our research group is busy trying to make fish and seafood waste into something else – hopefully one day we will turn it
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Contributed by Dr. Masha Petrova, MVP Consulting Solutions, LLC and Joe Garner, American Chemical Society
The field of Biopolymers is growing rapidly and with that growth comes renewed debate on what exactly constitutes a biopolymer. In addition, in today
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