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Safer Alternatives

This is a directory of green chemistry and engineering technologies from around the world, developed by the Yale-UNIDO Global Green Chemistry Initiative. It provides a worldwide snapshot of technologies that are currently commercially available or are in the process of becoming commercially available. The selected technologies are applicable across a broad range of sectors and industries.

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Amyris Clean Processes

Manufactures sustainable and environmentally friendly ingredients with synthetic biology.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Consumer Products

Antiobiofilm/Antifouling Platform

Non-toxic, eco-friendly, and sustainable chemicals that prevent and remove biofilms.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Paints/Coating

AquaRefining™

Sustainable, closed-loop metal recycling process.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Bulk Chemicals

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP)

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerizatoin (ATRP) for manufacturing polymers.

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Inventor:

Carnegie Mellon University, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

Category:

Plastics & Polymers

Autodisplay/MATE

First-generation surface display technology for better performing enzymes.

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System Development/Field Test/ Commercialization

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Pharmaceuticals