Novel Catalysts for Environmental Green Chemistry Application
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 3596
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Inorganic biochemistry; Inorganic metal catalysis, Metal chemical toxicity analysis; Protein structure and function
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the 2018 EPA national analysis agency TRI national analysis, the chemical industry is one of the most wasteful industries (14%), second only to the metal mining industry (44%). Since the industrial revolution, due to the rapid development and integration of industrial technology, humans have rapidly consumed natural resources to produce daily necessities for people’s lives, which has led to the deterioration of the earth’s overall environment. Beginning in the early 1990s, academia and industry have been promoting the concept of green chemistry and sustainable operations in an effort to reduce the environmental and health impacts caused by the production of the chemical industry. As chemists and advocates of sustainability, we must take precautions before they happen, not let it happen and then try to make up for the damage that has already been done. The use of chemical methods to design products and auxiliary processes to reduce pollution and cater to the health of our environment is the torch we should carry forward. Catalysts have always been an important part of many chemical processes, whether manually introduced or naturally occurring. There are many kinds of such catalysts, including enzymatic, photocatalytic, chemical, and so on. Although each catalyst can work under its own conditions, by finding the best combination of different catalysts, more effective methods can be developed. We can start to reverse the reversible effects and relieve the existing pain points of irreversible effects.
Prof. Dr. Kelvin H.-C. Chen
Prof. Dr. Jong-Chin Huang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Green chemistry principles
- Environmental catalysis
- Sustainable catalysis
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Enzyme Catalysis
- Wastewater treatment
- Bioavailability and toxic assessment
- Toxicity reduction process
- Photosynthesis process
- Biocatalysis
- Photocatalysis
