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Sustainable Chemistry
UvA Research Priority Area
Catalysis: A Key to Sustainability
Join us on 29 and 30 April in Wrocław, Poland, for the 3rd edition of the Key to Sustainability symposium - an initiative of the Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry.
Sustainable chemistry news
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Sustainable synthesis of formamides via a methylisocyanide intermediate
Researchers at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences led by Dr Amanda Garcia have discovered a new reaction pathway in the electrochemical synthesis of formamides. In a paper that has just been accepted by ... -
Florenz Buß named Faculty of Impact fellow
Dr Florenz Buß has recently been selected as a fellow of the Dutch national 'Faculty of Impact' programme. Buß, a postdoc working with Prof. Chris Slootweg at the Synthetic Organic Chemistry Group (Van 't Hoff ... -
Vote for Gert-Jan Gruter to win the Klokhuis Science Award
With their pitch 'Plastic of the future is made of sugar', Prof. Gert-Jan Gruter of Industrial Sustainable Chemistry together with Prof. Marja Lamoree of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam hope to win the Klokhuis Science ... -
Vici grant for Prof. Timothy Noel
Prof. Timothy Noel of the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded a Vici grant by the Dutch research council NWO. Worth 1.5 million euros, the Vici is one of the ... -
The ‘hydrogen economy’ may be relatively small, but critical
An international team of researchers led by Prof. Bob van der Zwaan of the University of Amsterdam and TNO Energy and Materials Transition have quantified the role of the ‘hydrogen economy’ in making our society more ... -
Scalable and sustainable electrochemical cyclopropanation in continuous flow
In a paper in Angewandte Chemie, researchers of the Flow Chemistry group at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences report an efficient and practical electrochemical cyclopropanation method in ... -
UvA research leads to viable solution for polycotton textile waste recycling
In a paper just published in Nature Communications, researchers at the Industrial Sustainable Chemistry group of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) present a solution to the challenging problem of recycling polycotton ...