Greener and Sustainable Chemistry
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical and Molecular Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2013) | Viewed by 96923
Special Issue Editor
2. ORD National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, OH 45268, USA
Interests: comprehensively broad research interests ranging from eco-friendly synthetic methods using mechanochemical mixing, photocatalysis, microwaves, ultrasound, etc.; to greener assembly of nanomaterials and sustainable appliances of magnetically retrievable nanocatalysts in benign media, preferably utilizing biomass-derived chemicals including biowaste and economic consumption of agricultural residues
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Dear Colleagues,
Chemistry in the new millennium is embracing the concept of “green chemistry” and “sustainability” to meet the scientific challenges of protecting the human health and environment while maintaining commercial success of newer processes. This emerging area of Green Chemistry is defined as “the utilization of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture, and application of chemical products” and envisages minimum hazard as the performance criteria while designing new chemical protocols. Among others, the desired approach may encompass alternative activation methodology, such as mechanochemical mixing, and microwave-, and ultrasonic irradiation. Essentially, the strategy has to follow “benign by design” principles and make an effort to utilize renewable resources wherever possible. The contributions in this issue try to address some of these issues for sustainability.
Dr. Rajender S. Varma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- benign by design
- solvent-free chemistry
- chemistry in water
- mechanochemical mixing
- microwave irradiation
- ultrasonic irradiation
- nano-catalysis
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