The Green Sciences for Sustainable Development Foundation will be organizing its ’15th Green Chemistry Postgraduate Summer School’ between 2nd and 7th July 2023, in Venice. Participation is in person and online.
The themes of the Green Chemistry Summer School 2023
The aim of the Summer School is to give updates regarding the advances in Chemistry research and sustainable processes year by year, presented by well-recognized scientists in the following ambits:
- Exploitation of renewable resources
- Bio-based platforms for chemicals
- Biorefinery
- Biogas productions
- Conversion of CO2 into chemicals and fuels
- Nanoparticles as catalysts for green liquid fuels
- Renewable resources in polymer chemistry
- Bio-based sustainable polymers
- Bioinspired materials
- Bioplastic
- Surfactants from bioresources
- New Reaction pathways
- Host-guest chemistry and supramolecular chemistry
- Carbonate Chemistry vs Esters Chemistry
- Multicomponent reactions
- Green materials by radical polymerization
- Zeolites as catalysts
- Metal-organic frameworks
- Green solvents
- Ionic liquids
- Improvement in the separation process
- Continuous flow conditions
- Microwave-assisted synthesis
- Sonochemistry
- Mechanochemistry
- Energy saving
- Perovskite for green hydrogen generation from solar light
- Perovskite crystals
- Water splitting
- Using visible light for organic synthesis
- Photosystems for the generation of electricity and fuels from solar light
- Organo-catalysts for CO2 utilization
- Photoelectrochemical reaction of CO2
- Making green steel
- Supercapacitors
- Lithium-ion battery
- Rare earths and their recycling
- Food Safety
- Antibacterial coatings for food safety
- Green nanoparticles as plants nutrients supplement
- Omega-3 rich oils
- Climate Change
- Paris Agreement for Climate Change
- Forecast for the future of Climate Change
- Remediation of Climate Change impacts
- Metal complex for CO2 conversion
- Sunlight-powered CO2 reduction
- Recycling
- Valuable chemicals by pyrolysis
- Education
- Green chemistry curricula
- Metrics for green organic synthesis
- Chemicals of war and peace
- Health
- Cancer treatment nanoparticles and metal-complexes
- Green radiochemistry
- Human health risks from organochlorine pesticides
- Antimicrobial activities of autochthonous plants
- Removal of contaminants from water including PFAs
- Molecular imprinted polymers from PFAs removal
The Summer School also embraces the principles of equality and inclusivity, by giving to the students the opportunity to grow professionally and create international connections. Many students from the previous edition had brilliant institutional careers in Offices and Universities all over the world, and some of them came returned to Venice as Teachers in the School to offer their scientific contributions.
All the information is available at the website https://www.greenchemistry.school/ . You may contact the Organizers Committee at the email: greenchemistrysummerschool2023@gmail.com .
