Academic Initiative in Sustainability at UCSB

In October, I plan to spend two happy days down at the University of California at Santa Barbara for a symposium that is part of their ongoing “Academic Initiative in Sustainability,” called “Sustainable Materials and Product Design.”

Topics to be covered include:

• Sustainability through Catalysis: Making Biofuels and Chemicals from Biomass
• Seeking Synergies Between Technological and Ecological Systems for Sustainability
• Thermal depolymerization of biomass to sugars and phenolic monomers
• Biomass-Derived Sustainable Polymers, Fine Chemicals, and Liquid Fuels via Metal & Organocatalysis
• An Overview of CenSURF, NSF Center for the Sustainable Use of Renewable Feedstocks
• Energy Carriers for Sustainable Transportation
• Catalyzing new routes for the sustainable production of fuels and chemicals
• Earth-abundant transition metal catalysts for the conversion of CO2 to CO, HCOOH, and liquid fuels
• Integrating Chemistry, Engineering, Economics and Communication for Sustainability
• Toward the Open-Access Tool for Rapid Life Cycle Assessment of Chemicals
• High Performance Carbon- and Organic-Based Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage

Anyone wishing to attend with me can sign up via the link above.