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Interesting article/webpage on making biofuels from municipal waste in Edmonton: http://www.nacleanenergy.com/articles/15734/making-biofuels-from-waste-a-reality
Filed under: Group News, Science, Students | Tags: aminocarbohydrates, biomass, green chemistry, renewables
Fran, Khaled (PhD 2008-2012), Yi (PhD 2011-2015) and Kelly (Engineering) wrote a perspective (short review) on the possibility of producing chemicals and new materials from ocean-sourced biomass. This has now been accepted for publication in the journal Green Chemistry.
A figure from the paper summarizing some of the potential products/materials available from marine sources
Graphical Abstract for the Perspective
Here is a link to the article: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/GC/C3GC36994C
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Nduka successfully defended his thesis yesterday afternoon. Thank you to everyone involved. The examiners: Parisa Mehrkhodavandi (UBC), Bob Davis (MUN) and Peter Warburton (MUN). The chair: Shirley Solberg (MUN). The staff in the School of Graduate Studies and the members of the chemistry department who came out to offer support incl. current and past supervisory committee members, Louise Dawe and Chris Kozak.
Filed under: Chemistry Professors, Group News, Science, Students | Tags: carbon dioxide, news, publications, science, students
Fran, Nduka (PhD 2008-2013) and Jenna (PhD 2011-2015) wrote a short review article on copolymerization of carbon dioxide with epoxides late last year and early this year. It has been accepted for publication in a special issue of Dalton Transactions on the topic of “Advances in Metal-Catalysed Polymerisation and Related Transformations”. Although Aluminum catalysts are generally less-reactive than some state of the art catalysts for such reactions, there is significant scope to develop new systems based on this cheap metal. For example, Aluminum can catalyse many different types of polymerization reactions and so one could imagine preparing terpolymers (polymers made up of 3 different sub-units/monomers) or even more complex materials.
Here is a link to the article: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2013/dt/c3dt00049d
Graphical Abstract for Perspective on Al catalysts for carbon dioxide-epoxide copolymerizations
Biomimetic approach to CO2 capture in the news
Cool research from Newcastle University made it onto the BBC news website. The article also has a nice picture/scheme of conventional CO2-removal technologies using liquid amines. The new approach uses Nickel (which is the element used by sea urchins when they make CaCO3 from CO2)
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Higher value chemicals from biomass
Another interesting article from Chemistry World
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Article in the RSC’s news magazine “Chemistry World” about careers in green chemistry
New Core Sciences Building on the horizon at MUN
The department of chemistry will be moving to a new home in ~5 years time! Exciting times are ahead for our research team.
…on your award (1st place!) at the 20th annual Chemistry Colloquium Contest! Sorry we didn’t post this sooner but we were waiting for a departmental press release first.
Khaled Omari, a recent graduate of the group (PhD, Dr. Kerton), will soon be moving to Nova Scotia to begin Postdoctoral Research at Cape Breton University in collaboration with B.W.BioEnergy Inc. Congratulations on your new position and we hope you enjoy life in Sydney and your new research endeavours are as successful as those during your PhD.
Green Chemistry @ MUN 