American Council on Science and Health Methylene chloride decision: A win for common sense - Prioritization of chemicals of concern as low- or high-priority - EPA risk determination of whether the chemical presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the…
Oregon State University scientists have patented a better and more eco-friendly process for separating two metals that are critical in their pure forms for the semiconductor and atomic energy industries. Researchers in the OSU College of Science used a water-based…
Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: An Indian patent has been granted for an innovative, eco-friendly chemical process developed by researchers in the Department of Chemistry at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University. The patent covers a method of producing arylidene-oxindole compounds under solvent-free conditions…
Geoffrey Coates, Tisch University Professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S), was named a co-winner of the prestigious Balzan Prize for his work transforming renewable feedstocks and recovered carbon dioxide into high-performance, degradable…
A research collaboration between Durban University of Technology (DUT) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is bringing together research on agricultural waste and the production of sustainable chemicals. As part of the collaboration, Chemical Engineering researcher Kea…
The technology was recently named a finalist at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s prestigious 2026 Emerging Technologies Competition A groundbreaking process converting fluoropolymers and toxic PFAS waste into safe materials, developed by researchers from the University of Birmingham, has been heralded…
Highlights, news stories and awards from ACS meetings. Chicago—Chemistry professionals and business leaders came together in Chicago on Aug. 26, during American Chemical Society Fall 2026, to recognize green and sustainable chemistry innovators with the ACS 2026 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. This…
Mass spectrometry & spectroscopy A comprehensive review of 20 years of green analytical chemistry has concluded that no existing tool can measure the full environmental, safety and resource footprint of pharmaceutical testing on its own and has called for laboratories to combine…
Researchers have even demonstrated self-cleaning electrochemical systems in which organic contaminants are mineralized while iodate is converted back into periodate, opening the possibility of recycling the oxidant instead of treating it as a single-use chemical. Knowing how much periodate is…
A GCSE Chemistry video about the chemicals of the natural environment.. Part of Chemistry (Single Science) This video explains covalent bonding. In this video, Fran Scott demonstrates how to perform practical experiments with electrolysis. This video explains fractional distillation - the…
Green chemistry in practice: safer solvents and reagents, solvent-free and mechanochemical reactions, and more sustainable ways to make molecules.
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