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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.

Pharos

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Pharos provides resources to assess human and environmental health hazards of chemicals and building materials, and tools to collaborate to find safer alternatives. Products listed in the Pharos database are evaluated based on a range of criteria, including their potential impacts on human health (e.g., toxicity, emissions), environmental impact (e.g., resource depletion, energy use), and overall sustainability performance. The Pharos Project promotes transparency by providing clear and accessible information about the materials listed in its database.

Bio-Based Acrylonite (bio-ACN™) from Glycerol

Trillium has developed a technology that produces bio-ACN™ from glycerol. Glycerol is a renewable feedstock that is a byproduct of converting natural oils and fats into soaps, detergents, and biofuels. Bio-ACN™ has a 70% lower carbon footprint than petroleum-based acrylonitrile. This process is scalable and cost-competitive due to the use of an efficient catalytic process that dehydrates glycerin to acrolein. Acrylonitrile is then produced by reacting acrolein with oxygen and ammonia.

Cell Factory Engineering Platform

Replicates the natural processes of plants in smart cell factories to create a variety of products more sustainably and efficiently. Manus Bio developed an advanced technology designed to recreate plant processes in microorganisms to produce natural ingredients through fermentation. The AI-augmented computational protein design platform, MLEAP®, enables users to discover, develop, and optimize enzymes for different applications.

Certificate Sustainable Chemistry & Benign by Design

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The certificate Sustainable Chemistry & Benign by Design offered by Leuphana Professional School at Leuphana University, Lüneburg, Germany provides in four modules interdisciplinary knowledge about the design and redesign of chemicals at university Master's level. Based on findings from environmental chemistry and toxicology, you will explore the molecular (re)design of chemicals with reduced ecological and toxicological impacts, the potential and applicability of Benign by Design. In addition, experimental and in-silico methods for the molecular (re)design of chemicals are addressed.

Defining and Advancing Sustainable Chemistry: A Discussion around the Recent National Science and Technology Council Report

In this editorial, we attempt to contextualize the new definition of sustainable chemistry and its relations to established concepts. In doing so, we also propose productive actions for researchers across different sectors to maximize the impact of their fundamental research advances

Masterclass on Sustainable Chemistry – Business Opportunities and Sustainability Check

What will you learn? In the on-demand ISC3 Masterclass, basic concepts of Sustainable Chemistry are presented. Start-ups also learn, why a clear and plausible sustainability profile is important for start-ups. Furthermore, the ISC3 experts will introduce the ISC3 Sustainability Checklist for Sustainable Chemistry changemakers and explain the business opportunities when the underlying sustainability criteria are addressed. The Masterclass also includes a practical part, where the start-ups will explore which sustainability criteria could be prioritized and/or addressed.

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