Sustainable Chemical Innovations Enabling Net Carbon Emissions (SCIENCE): Fully funded PhD studentship, School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham

与Anabel Lanterna博士合作的博士奖学金将于2023年开始，这是与路博润（Lubrizol）主要合作的一部分。该项目将在化学品和聚合物制造中建立一种从最初的设计阶段到工业生产和使用的可持续性文化。该项目专注于为工业上重要的分子提供可持续的途径，主要是开发一种环境可持续的异构化和氢化方法，使用能耗更低的催化剂（异相光催化剂），同时消除对高压氢气的需求。该项目将利用阳光进行化学生产，以实现(1)在温和条件下（室温、大气压）的反应；（ii）使用可再生原料和/或试剂，（iii）尽量减少化石能源的使用。

A PhD studentship working with Dr Anabel Lanterna is available for a 2023 start as part of a major collaboration with Lubrizol.The project will develop a culture of embedding sustainability in chemicals and polymer manufacturing from the earliest stages of design through to industrial production and use. Focussed on enabling sustainable routes to industrially important molecules, the studentship will be largely based around developing an environmentally sustainable method for isomerisations and hydrogenations using less energy-demanding catalysts (heterogeneous photocatalysts) while removing the need for high pressure hydrogen. The project will harness sunlight for chemical manufacturing to enable (i) reactions under mild conditions (room temperature, atmospheric pressure); (ii) the use of renewable feedstocks and/or reagents, and (iii) minimising the use of fossil energy.