The tremendous impact of humans on the natural world has been termed, �The Anthropocene� by Paul Crutzen. It is likely that due to this oversized impact by humans that the future is largely going to be what we as a civilization design it to be. Will we design our products, processes, and systems to be sustainable or will we continue on the trajectory of depletion, degradation, and toxicity? This talk will focus on advances and approaches to molecular design to meet our sustainability challenges from energy, to water, to agriculture and reduced toxicity from chemicals. Some of the recent research to be discussed will include molecular design approaches to reduced toxicity, the integrated biorefinery, small molecules from lignin, green nanotechnology, new water purification materials, and catalytic water oxidation.

Molecular design for sustainability

248th National Meeting (2014)

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