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Great idea – Look at the long list of member companies already involved
The American Chemistry Council
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) – focused on anticipating and preventing accidents, as well as on educating the public about how to use chemical products safely – created a new Biobased Chemistry Network to help educate policymakers on how to develop workable regulatory programs for the growing biobased chemistry industry. Global sales of this segment range from $13.5 billion to $20 billion, with the US accounting for approximately 20 percent of those sales, or $2.7 billion to $4 billion.
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Congratulations to Karen, Fabio, and Philipp, our 2013 RISE students, for their 1st and 3rd place wins in the RISE photo contest! They snapped these creative photographs during their time in the Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group. Have a look at their winning entries here. Fabio is featured in the bottom photo!
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The GCCG has a brand new, state of the art GPC/SEC system for polymer characterization. The GPC includes Agilent’s LC front end and Wyatt’s world-leading multi-angle laser light scattering, viscometry and refractive index detectors. This will take the polymer chemistry research in the group to the next level.
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Ning Yan (Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore) has many research interests similar to our group.
His team have recently published their results on chitin conversion in the journal Green Chemistry. Fran Kerton collaborated with them on this research, and is looking forward to visiting their group this summer to further collaborative efforts.
Ning’s paper is featured in the blog of the RSC journal Green Chemistry and by a twist of fate was summarized by Jenna Flogeras (Graduate Student, Kerton Group). Jenna is performing research on CO2 activation and polymerization reactions. Other students in the Kerton group (Yi Liu, Greg Curtis and George Margoutides) are performing research on chitin, chitosan and aminosugars.
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GreenCentre Canada has just announced their Top 10 News Stories of 2013 and research from the MUN Green Chemistry and Catalysis Group made number 7 on their list. GreenCentre Canada is a commercialization centre that partners academic research in green chemistry with industrial partners for bringing the technology to market. Technology developed by us, in partnership with colleagues at University of Prince Edward Island, was in-licensed by GreenCentre. You can read more about our iron catalysts for radical-mediated polymerization and carbon-carbon cross-coupling here and here.
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Prof Ian Fleming (no, not the Ian Fleming who wrote the James Bond books), a colleague in Ocean Sciences, has received an award for his outstanding research on evolutionary ecology for fish. More on this award and story can be found on the FoS site: Faculty of Science | News.
Congratulations Ian!
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Khaled graduated from Dr. Kerton’s group around 1 year ago and has just completed a 1 year postdoc on biochar and bio-oils at Cape Breton University (MacQuarrie Group and B. W. Bioenergy). He is moving from Nova Scotia to Ontario today. He has received via NSERC a visiting fellowship position at the Southern Crop Protection and Food Research Centre/Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in London, Ontario. His new career title is “Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellow”. He will be working on functional characterization and compositional analysis for plant germplasm.
Congratulations Khaled! and continued success in your research and career.
Dr. Khaled Omari – Group Alumnus and NSERC awarded Canadian Government Laboratory Visiting Fellow
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The RSC journal Catalysis Science and Technology has selected our paper on Cr-catalyzed CO2/epoxide copolymerization as a “Hot Article” for January. The paper describes work performed by Hua Chen during her M.Sc. studies with Dr. Kozak. Thank you Hua for your hard work on this paper and thanks to Louise Dawe, whose ninja-like crystallographic skills were vital to solving the structure of one of the catalysts discussed in the paper. Access to the article can be found here.
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Can. J. Chem. announces new Best Paper Award | Inorganic Division.
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St. John’s winters aren’t as harsh as people think. We’re the warmest in Canada today!
Green Chemistry @ MUN 