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Green Chemistry

Chemistry is undergoing a revolution in which the aims of the science are shifting towards greener and more efficient methods, and green chemists are working towards making this happen. Environmental concerns are the biggest challenge to affect Chemistry since its conception, and green chemists are fighting against long-held beliefs to recreate a set of laboratory and industry techniques that use much fewer solvents and starting materials and are ultimately waste - and pollution free for a green future.

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Scientists agree that human activities are causing climate change, but the finer details are still unknown.
Delve deeper into climate change

Green ammonia could reduce carbon emissions hugely by synthesising hydrogen via electrolysis or using biocatalysts or electrochemical alternative routes.
Delve deeper into green ammonia

What happens to plastic when it gets disposed of into the environment, and how might it affect us?
Delve deeper into plastics

Chemists are exploring ways to mimic nature’s selective, low-temperature biochemical reactions that make delicate and reactive structures. Previously, chemists had copied high temperature geological reactions.
Delve deeper into ambient chemistry


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