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CGTFD-2024 - International Conference on Chemistry: Global Trends & Future Directions

CGTFD-2024 - 2024 International Conference on Chemistry: Global Trends & Future Directions

Welcome to the 2024 International Conference on Chemistry: Global Trends & Future Directions! We are delighted to bring together a diverse and distinguished group of chemists, researchers, and industry experts from around the world for an immersive three-day virtual event. This conference serves as a dynamic platform to discuss and explore the latest advancements, groundbreaking research, and innovative applications in the field of chemistry.

Rising Stars in Green Chemistry Education Award

To recognize outstanding early-career scholars who have committed to a significant focus on green chemistry and/or sustainability in curricula for teaching chemistry, chemical engineering, or a closely related field.

Two awards will be given annually. Each award will consist of a certificate, a $1,000 honorarium, and travel support for the awardee and one student (up to $2,000 each) to attend the annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference (GC&E) to receive the award and present their work.

Open to all Nationalities

Principal Investigator Development in Sustainability Grant

This award will provide funding to early or mid-career investigators (Associate+) to spend 6-12 months in the laboratory of a private company, a national laboratory, or an academic laboratory in a different institution, with the goal of establishing robust collaborations across industry-academia or across disciplines and taking advantage of the mentorship of a faculty member distinct from their prior mentors.

Nanocellulose-Based Materials for Personal Care and Consumer Goods

The company focused on developing and commercializing versatile bio-base, micro-, and nanocellulose materials. FineCell’s patented technology offers sustainable material solutions with unique performance benefits, such as replacing fossil fuels and harmful chemicals in personal care products and consumer goods. FineCell’s cellulose materials are produced through a green and resource-efficient process. The technology is based on a chemical reaction under mild conditions, which enables substantially reduced energy and water consumption and significantly increases production yield.

Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products

Blueland manufactures sustainable household products using environmentally responsible ingredients that are both recyclable and compostable. The company offers a range of products including hand soap, laundry detergent, spray cleaners, and personal care items in plastic-free tablets. These tablets are added to warm or hot water in reusable bottles, shakers, and tins, eliminating the need for single-use plastics like polyvinyl alcohol (PVA and PVOH).

Microbial-Based Nitrogen Fertilizer for Crops

Developed by Pivot Bio, a sustainable agricultural company that uses microbes to deliver nitrogen to plants as an alternative to synthetic fertilizers. Pivot Bio’s technology pinpoints a microbe natural to a crop’s specific microbiome with the genetic code for nitrogen fixation. All genetic changes to the microbe are within its genome and applied during the planting phase, where they bind to the root and continuously fix nitrogen throughout the growing season.

Progress towards a more sustainable synthetic pathway to ibuprofen through the use of solar heating

Ibuprofen is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is commonly used worldwide for pain relief and fever/inflammation reduction. It was discovered in the 1960s by Andrew Dunlop, who initially tested the drug on cures for hangovers. The drug was first made available via prescription in 1974 (United States) and soon became available as an over the counter drug purchasable at retail shops around the globe.

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