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

作为与路博润重大合作的一部分，阿纳贝尔·兰特尔纳博士的博士研究生项目将于2023年启动。该项目将在化学品和聚合物制造中形成一种文化，即从设计的最早阶段到工业生产和使用，将可持续性融入其中。专注于实现工业重要分子的可持续路线，该奖学金将主要基于开发一种环境可持续的异构化和氢化方法，使用能耗较低的催化剂（多相光催化剂），同时消除对高压氢气的需求。该项目将利用阳光进行化学制造，以实现（i）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;以及（iii）最大限度地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.