Green Chemistry Letters and Reviews

2nd Australian Green and Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering Conference Special Collection

The 12 principles of green chemistry, intersecting with the 12 principles of green engineering provide an overarching framework for designing chemical products and processes that provide the greatest benefits to humanity. These principles encompass the reduction or elimination of hazardous substances, minimising energy demands, use of renewable resources and designing products for circular economy, wherever possible. Problems with waste where circularity is not possible should be avoided. Increasingly, industry worldwide is seeking to deliver cost-competitive chemical products in the most sustainable and green manner. Green chemistry and green engineering are applied across the life cycle of a chemical product, including its design, manufacture, use, and ultimate disposal,

Articles for this special collection will come from the second Australian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, (Melbourne, December, 2024).

Chemical manufacturing and all the products that come from chemical industries are central in providing the lifestyles that people can enjoy today. Everything from food, medicines, polymer products, fertilisers, cosmetics and skincare materials, cleaning agents, coatings, adhesives, fuels, batteries to name but a selection, all come from chemical manufacturing.

In order to avoid the problems of the past; legacy problems that humanity is dealing with today, the chemical industry needs to avoid toxic materials, minimise energy requirements, use renewable feedstocks and conserve all resources so that future societies can be sustained in the most beneficial and productive ways. Adopting green and sustainable chemistry, with engineering will be crucial in achieving this vision.

Topics included in the Conference program will include:

Green synthesis, catalysis, green design for circularity, renewable feedstocks, energy production and storage, materials valorisation, green chemistry education, Life Cycle Analysis, corporate, social and environmental responsibility, green chemistry in the water industry, business models, industry sustainability strategies. Technology transfer/Commercialisation/Intellectual property, green chemistry addressing current environmental legacy issues, UN sustainable development goals.

­­All manuscripts submitted to this Article Collection will undergo a full peer-review; the Guest Advisor for this Collection will not be handling the manuscripts (unless they are an Editorial Board member).

Please review the journal scope and author submission instructions prior to submitting a manuscript.

The deadline for submitting manuscripts is 08 August 2025.

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