green chemistry
Researchers say they’ve found a new way to analyse large numbers of novel marine microbes, a technology that could help lead to greener, more efficient manufacturing of new drugs and agrochemicals. Scientists at Heriot-Watt University and Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), working in collaboration with the Edinburgh-based company Ingenza Ltd,
green chemistry
The next time you nosh on some tapas, don’t throw away those olive pits: they could provide a greener way of cleaning up industrial effluents. That’s the conclusion reached by Ángeles Martín Lara, a doctoral student in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Granada. Lara
green chemistry
A new pilot plant in Leicestershire will demonstrate how many industrial processes could be made cleaner and greener with ionic liquids. Ionic liquids are solutions of dissolved substances in which the atoms or molecules have a positive or negative, rather than neutral, electrical charge. The Ionic Liquids Demonstrator (ILD) project
