Students challenged to phase out toxic chemicals using green chemistry

NYSP2I symposium, "Reagents of Change," will take place Sept. 20 in Troy, New York.

• NYSP2I’s annual summer-long research program gives students across its five partner universities—including Binghamton University, Clarkson University, Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)—in New York State the opportunity to lead research to solve real-world sustainability problems.
• The annual program’s second year once again asks student-led teams to tackle a difficult, real-world sustainability challenge. This year, the students are tasked with developing alternatives to the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products or industrial processes by applying principles of green chemistry. Their goal is to achieve “benign” chemical design, which means minimizing the use of hazardous chemical reagents and identifying safer alternatives.
• The 2024 challenge includes four teams featuring undergraduate and graduate students and research faculty members from Binghamton University, Cornell University, RPI, and RIT.
• The RIT team aims to "upcycle" post-consumer polyolefin plastic into metal sensors that can be used to monitor lead pollution in water resources.

• This year’s teams will present their findings at a research symposium on September 20, 2024, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, that is free and open to the public.

   

  The 2024 research symposium

• What: “Reagents of Change: Green Chemistry and Safer Chemicals in Products & Industry,” the 2024 NYSP2I Student and Faculty Research Program Symposium
• Where: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York
• When: Friday, September 20, 2024
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