“Everybody gets into chemistry because you want to help the world somehow,” says Dr. Joseph Fortunak. Motivated by this, Dr. Fortunak graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a PhD in Organic Chemistry and after a postdoctoral stint at Camb

Every year, students from all over the world come to the ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry & Sustainable Energy. This year, one student from Brazil, Thaíla de Mello Florêncio, took her knowledge gained from the program and co-authored a paper with her

Since the birth of green chemistry in the 1990's, there has been an ever increasing amount of research done to understand how to synthesize and design molecules in a framework that takes into account toxicity, process efficiency, and environmental impact.

by Jane Dmochowski, Ph.D., Managing Director, VIPER

Pictured from left to right VIPER class of 2016: Anjali Khetan, Eric Lu, Meehir Pathare, Albert Xiao,
Julia Fordham, David (Jin Soo) Lim, Gerardo Cedillo Servin, and Connor Lippincott.

The University of Pe

By Phllip Jessop, Ph.D., Technical Director, GreenCentre Canada

More and more green chemistry technologies are being invented at the chemistry and chemical engineering departments of universities, but far too few of those technologies actually make it to m

“What we really need is a biological alternative to industry.” This was the comment that Stephen del Cardayre remembers Berkeley Professor Joe Neilands making to him one day over lunch many years ago. Although he can’t remember the exact quote, the idea s

By Dr. Vincent Nyamori and Dr. Werner Van Zyl, June 2012

Green chemistry is a philosophy that aims to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of waste and to maximise the efficiency of chemical products and processes. As such, green chemistry can be app