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Delegates from university, industry, governmental and non-governmental organizations and venture capital providers will present their views on industrial biotechnology, sustainable (green) chemistry and agricultural policy related to the use of renewable raw materials for non-food applications and energy supply. The conference further aims to provide an overview of the scientific, technical, economic, environmental and social issues of renewable resources and biorefineries in order to give an impetus to the biobased economy and to present new developments in this area. 

The conference will provide a forum for leading political, corporate, academic and financial people to discuss recent developments and set up collaborations.

• Bioactive compounds from biomass
• Biobased materials
• Biomass fractionation
• Biocatalysis for bioresource transformation
• Bioenergy
• Bioproducts from woody biomass
• Biorefineries
• Biosurfactants
• Chemical platform molecules
• Downstream processing
• Metabolic engineering of fermentation processes
• Micro and macro algae technology
• Plant cell wall modification
• Pretreatment and transformation of lignocellulosics
• Sustainability
• Thermochemical transformations of biomass
• Valorization of biomass waste streams

The Brazilian Humboldt Kolleg 2016 titled “Environments: technoscience and its relation to sustainability, ethics, aesthetics, health and the human future” took place on 3rd-5th November at the Center of Advanced Materials and Energy Research (CPqMAE) in São Carlos, SP, Brazil. The event was also sponsored by Green Chemistry and a number of poster prizes were awarded by a committee coordinated by the Green Chemistry Advisory Board member Professor Vânia Zuin of Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil.

The first prize was awarded to Livia Loiola of the University of Campinas, Brazil for her poster ‘Amphiphilic block copolymers: what are they and what are they worth for?‘. Kassio Zanoni, of São Paulo University, Brazil, received the second prize for his poster ‘Chemical concepts for energy conversion and sustainability ‘, and `Lísias Novo, of São Paulo University, Brazil, was awarded the third prize for his poster ‘Production of nanocellulose through hydrolysis without mineral acids using sub-critical water ‘.

Congratulations!

More information about the event can be seen on http://www.avh.kollegbr.ufscar.br/

The AIChE Annual Meeting is the premier educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professional growth. Academic and industry experts will cover wide range of topics relevant to cutting-edge research, new technologies, and emerging growth areas in chemical engineering.

The technical program of the 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting includes:

• Programming from 22 of AIChE’s Divisions and Forums

• 10 topical conferences

• 100+ invited sessions

• 44 poster sessions

Register now or click through for more information on this meeting.

ISGC, the International Symposium on Green Chemistry, will be held in La Rochelle – France, May 16th-19th 2017.
There will be 10 topics / 24 plenary lectures / 280 oral communications selected from a call for communications / a green chemistry challenge / 1000 participants (academic institutions and private industry).

The call for communications is in progress. Deadline for papers is October 31th 2016.

Green Chemistry will be publishing a selection of invited contributions following ISGC-2017 to showcase some of the research presented at the conference. Please note that all submissions will be subject to initial assessment and peer-review and as such we cannot guarantee publication of invited manuscripts.

Topics :
Renewable Carbon / Biomass conversion / Valorization of waste
Smart Use of Fossil
Polymers
Environmental Impact & Life Cycle Assessment
Mechanism
Catalytic Systems
Biotechnologies
Alternative Solvents
Non-thermal Activation Methods
Networking & Education

The main objective of ISGC 2017 is to gather the most eminent scientists involved in the field of green chemistry to debate on the future challenges of Chemistry keeping in mind the problems of access to a sustainable energy, the management of resources (carbon, water, metals, minerals), Human development, global warming, impact on the environment and competitiveness of our Industry.

For more information please see www.isgc-symposium.com