SusChEM Workshop

这笔资金将用于支持2012年1月在弗吉尼亚州阿灵顿举行的一个关于可持续化学的研讨会。研讨会旨在确定需要在核心学科（化学、化学工程、材料科学与工程）进行基础研究的关键领域，以推进增加化学加工和制造的可持续性的目标。预期这将包括减少或消除稀有元素和其他稀缺材料的使用、减少淡水和能源的使用以及增加回收/再循环的可行性的战略。讲习班将探讨多学科方法，并阐明需要从系统层面看可持续发展，包括科学、技术、经济和社会影响。这可能需要新的教育方法来训练下一代研究人员将这种思维融入他们的研究设计中。资助那些拥有不同观点和不同学科的研究人员的研究工作所创造的附加价值将是显而易见的。向科学界提出的广泛建议以及具体实例将被纳入一份广泛提供的报告。

This grant supports a workshop to be held in Arlington, VA in January 2012 on Sustainable Chemistry. The workshop aims to identify key areas where fundamental research in the core disciplines (Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering) is needed to advance the goal of increasing the sustainability of chemical processing and manufacturing. This is expected to include strategies to reduce or eliminate the use of rare elements and other scarce materials, reduce the use of freshwater and energy, and increase the feasibility of recovery/recycling.The workshop will explore multidisciplinary approaches and articulate the need for a systems-level view of sustainability, including science, technology, economics and societal impact. This is likely to require new educational approaches to train the next generation of researchers to incorporate such thinking into their research design. The added value created by funding research efforts that incorporate investigators with different perspectives and from different disciplines will be apparent. The broad recommendations to the scientific community as well as specific examples will be incorporated into a widely available report.