Network of Sustainable Chemistry

Catalysis is also one of the key enabling factors for the European Technology Platform of Sustainable Chemistry (www.suschem.org). A specific coordination of European innovation-driven research in the field of catalysis and sustainable chemistry has been made by the ACENET ERA-NET network (www.acenet.net) and a European N etwork of Excellence (ID EC AT, www.idecat.org) has been dedicated to the role of catalysis for sustainable production and energy. In Japan the Green and Sustainable Chemistry Network (www.gscn.net) dedicates much attention to catalysis. 

To sustain the development of new green chemistry curriculum and tools, a network of faculty has been formed to promote a collaborative approach to preparation of new materials. The Green Chemistry Education Network (GCEdNet) (35) began in 2004 with five ambassador faculty members located... 

James G. Anderson is Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry at Harvard University. He received his B.S. in physics from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. in physics-astrogeophysics from the University of Colorado. His research addresses three domains within physical chemistry (1) chemical reactivity viewed from the microscopic perspective of electron structure, molecular orbitals, and reactivities of radical-radical and radical-molecule systems (2) chemical catalysis sustained by free-radical chain reactions that dictate the macroscopic rate of chemical transformation in the Earth s stratosphere and troposphere and (3) mechanistic links between chemistry, radiation, and dynamics in the atmosphere that control climate. Studies are carried out both in the laboratory, where elementary processes can be isolated, and within natural systems, in which reaction networks and transport patterns are dissected by establishing cause and effect using simultaneous, in situ detection of free radicals, reactive intermediates, and long-lived tracers. Professor Anderson is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. 

As has been mentioned before, the setting up—for more than a decade— of the Spanish Inter-university Master and PhD Programmes in Sustainable Chemistry is one of the main achievements of the REDQS. The network has contributed to postgraduate education through the involvement in different Master s programmes in the areas of environmental chemistry or business and environment held at different academic institutions in Spain, showing... 

---