CAS article collection: Green Chemistry
Green chemistry is the utilisation of a set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use or generation of hazardous substances in the design, manufacture and application of chemical products.
Introduction
The continuous depletion of non-renewable fossil fuels and serious environmental pollution promote the development of green chemistry, which provides new ways to solve the resource and environment problems. Green chemistry has become one of the frontiers of chemical science and is being paid worldwide attention. Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have dedicated their time to researching in the field of green chemistry for decades and made significant achievements. Herein, we will introduce the progress on green chemistry research of CAS in 2018, which covers CO2 capture and chemistry, Green solvents, Biomass, bio-fuels and bioenergy, Photocatalysis, Green catalysis and synthesis, Green process and technology, Green synthesis of functional materials, Sustainable recycling of molecules, materials and products.
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Professor Zhimin Liu received her PhD from China Petroleum University in 1997. After 2-years of postdoc research work at the Institute of Chemistry, CAS (ICCAS), she was hired as an associate professor by ICCAS in 1999; and was promoted to full professor in 2008. She is currently a group leader at ICCAS with, her research interest being green chemistry with a focus on the study of green solvents and chemical conversion of CO2 and biomass. To date, she has published over 280 research papers in international journals. In 2011, she was awarded a second-class prize of the National Natural Science Award of China; and was supported by the China National Fund for Distinguished Young Scientists. In 2016, she was selected as leading talent in science and technological innovation of China Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2018, she was enrolled in the National High-level personnel of special support program. She has been selected as Elsevier Most Cited Chinese Researcher from 2015-2018. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of “Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry”.
Prof. Zhimin Liu
Dr. Yanfei Zhao obtained her PhD from Institute of Chemistry, CAS (ICCAS) in 2012. Currently, she is an associate professor of ICCAS.
Dr. Yanfei Zhao
Dr. Bo Yu received his PhD from Institute of Chemistry, CAS (ICCAS) in 2014. Currently, he is an assistant professor of ICCAS.
Dr. Bo Yu
Article collections
CO2 chemistry
Highly Selective Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Aromatics over Tandem Catalysts Zelong Li, Yuanzhi Qu, Jijie Wang, Hailong Liu, Mingrun Li, Shu Miao, Can Li
Utilization of CO2 for aromatics production over ZnO/ZrO2-ZSM-5 tandem catalyst Xinbao Zhang, Anfeng Zhang, Xiao Jiang, Jie Zhu, Junhui Liu, Junjie Li, Guanghui Zhang, Chunshan Song, Xinwen Guo
A new amino-alcohol originated from carbon dioxide and its application as chain extender in the preparation of polyurethane Xiaoyun Li, Jiexi Ke, Junwei Wang, Chen Liang, Maoqing Kang, Yuhua Zhao, Qifeng Li
Di Zhang, Jingjie Luo, Jiajie Wang, Xin Xiao, Yuefeng Liu, Wei Qi, Dang Sheng Su, Wei Chu
Catalytic reduction of low-concentration CO2 with water by Pt/Co@NC
Qianqian Wang, Wenzhong Wang, Ling Zhang, Yang Su, Kefu Wang, Huixia Wu Journal of Materials Science & Technology
Enhanced low-temperature performance of CO2 methanation over mesoporous Ni/Al2O3-ZrO2 catalysts
Jianghui Lin, Caiping Ma, Qiong Wang, Yanfei Xu, Guangyuan Ma, Jie Wang, Hongtao Wang, Chenglong Dong, Chenghua Zhang, Mingyue Ding Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Synthesis of S, N co-doped porous carbons from polybenzoxazine for CO2 capture
Zuer Jin, Jianlong Wang, Rijie Zhao, Taotao Guan, Dongdong Zhang, Kai-xi Li New Carbon Materials
Xing Zhou, Jiantao Zhao, Shuai Guo, Jiazhou Li, Zhongliang Yu, Shuangshuang Song, Junguo Li, Yitian Fang
Nitrogen and sulfur Co-doped microporous activated carbon macro-spheres for CO2 capture Yahui Sun, Kaixi Li, Jianghong Zhao, Jianlong Wang, Nan Tang, Dongdong Zhang, Taotao Guan, Zuer Jin
Green solvents
Gas separation by ionic liquids: A theoretical study Yongsheng Zhao, Mingguang Pan, Xuejing Kang, Wenhui Tu, Hongshuai Gao, Xiangping Zhang
Highly efficient and environmentally friendly microwave-assisted hydrothermal rapid synthesis of ultralong hydroxyapatite nanowires Han-Ping Yu, Ying-Jie Zhu, Bing-Qiang Lu
Manganese oxide catalyzed synthesis of anti-HIV N-substituted benzimidazoles via a one-pot multistep process Xiuru Bi, Xu Meng, Gexin Chen, Baohua Chen, Peiqing Zhao
Improvement of furanic diether selectivity by adjusting Bronsted and Lewis acidity
Wenting Fang, Hualei Hu, Ping Dong, Zhongsen Ma, Yulian He, Lei Wang, Yajie Zhang Applied Catalysis A, General
Biomass, bio-fuels and bioenergy
Long chain alcohol and succinic acid co-production process based on full utilization of lignocellulosic materials Chao Xu, Jun Zhang, Yu Zhang, Ying Guo, Huijuan Xu, Jingliang Xu
Recent advances in catalytic conversion of biomass to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and 2, 5-dimethylfuran Haiyong Wang, Changhui Zhu, Dan Li, Qiying Liu, Jin Tan, Chenguang Wang, Chiliu Cai, Longlong Ma
A review on the utilization of hybrid renewable energy Shaopeng Guo, Qibin Liu, Jie Sun, Hongguang Jin
Pyrolysis of Torrefied Biomass Zhiwen Chen, Mingfeng Wang, Enchen Jiang, Donghai Wang , Ke Zhang, Yongzhi Ren, Yang Jiang
Production of bio-jet fuel from corncob by hydrothermal decomposition and catalytic hydrogenation: Lab analysis of process and techno-economics of a pilot-scale facility Yuping Li, Cong Zhao, Lungang Chen, Xinghua Zhang, Qi Zhang, Tiejun Wang, Songbai Qiu, Jin Tan, Kai Li, Chenguang Wang, Longlong Ma
Production of hydrocarbon fuels from heavy fraction of bio-oil through hydrodeoxygenative upgrading with Ru-based catalyst Xinghua Zhang, Wenwu Tang, Qi Zhang, Yuping Li, Lungang Chen, Ying Xu, Chenguang Wang, Longlong Ma
Transfer-hydrogenation of furfural and levulinic acid over supported copper catalyst Wanbing Gong, Chun Chen, Ruoyu Fan, Haimin Zhang, Guozhong Wang, Huijun Zhao
Conversion of pyrolytic lignin to aromatic hydrocarbons by hydrocracking over pristine MoO3 catalyst Xinghua Zhang, Qiang Chen, Qi Zhang, Chenguang Wang, Longlong Ma, Ying Xu
Photocatalysis
Bench- and pilot-scale studies on the removal of pesticides from water by VUV/UV process Laxiang Yang, Mengkai Li, Wentao Li, Yuejie Jiang, Zhimin Qiang
Photocatalytic synthesis of 2,5-diformylfuran from 5-hydroxymethyfurfural or fructose over bimetallic Au-Ru nanoparticles supported on reduced graphene oxides Ben Ma, Yingyong Wang, Xiaoning Guo, Xili Tong, Chang Liu, Yunwei Wang, Xiangyun Guo
Boosting photocatalytic cross-dehydrogenative coupling reaction by incorporating [RuII(bpy)3] into a radical metal-organic framework Yanxi Tan, Shaoxia Lin, Caiping Liu, Yiyin Huang, Mi Zhou, Qiang Kang, Daqiang Yuan, Maochun Hong
The role of ozone and influence of band structure in WO3 photocatalysis and ozone integrated process for pharmaceutical wastewater treatment Jin Yang, Jiadong Xiao, Hongbin Cao, Zhuang Guo, Jabor Rabeah, Angelika Brückner, Yongbing Xie
Efficient design principle for interfacial charge separation in hydrogenintercalated nonstoichiometric oxides Zhenao Gu, Le Zhang, Bo Wen, Xiaoqiang An, Huachun Lan, Limin Liu, Tao Chen, Jing Zhang, Xingzhong Cao, Junwang Tang, Huijuan Liu, Jiuhui Qu Nano Energy
Interfacial charge kinetics of ZnO/ZnTe heterostructured nanorod arrays for CO2 photoreduction Muzaffar Iqbal, Yanjie Wang, Haifeng Hu, Meng He, Aamir Hassan Shah, Pan Li, Lin Lin, Abebe Reda Woldu, Tao He
Huifang Ye, Rui Shi, Xiao Yang, Wenfu Fu, Yong Chen
Green catalysis and synthesis
One-step aldol condensation reaction of dimethoxymethane and methyl acetate over supported Cs/ZSM-35 zeolite catalysts Zhanling Ma, Xiangang Ma, Hongchao Liu, Wenliang Zhu, Xinwen Guo, Zhongmin Liu
Room-Temperature Methane Conversion by Graphene-Confined Single Iron Atoms Xiaoju Cui, Haobo Li, Yan Wang, Yuanli Hu, Lei Hua, Haiyang Li, Xiuwen Han, Qingfei Liu, Fan Yang, Limin He , Xiaoqi Chen , Qingyun Li , Jianping Xiao , Dehui Deng, Xinhe Bao
Single-atom catalysis: Bridging the homo- and heterogeneous catalysis Fang Chen, Xunzhu Jiang, Leilei Zhang, Rui Lang, Botao Qiao
Dynamic behavior of metal nanoparticles for catalysis Yan Zhou, Chuanchuan Jin, Yong Li, Wenjie Shen
Heterogeneous cyclization of sorbitol to isosorbide catalyzed by a novel basic porous polymer-supported ionic liquid Yao-Feng Wang, Bao-Hua Xu, Yi-Ran Du, Suo-Jiang Zhang
Oxidative dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene on nanocarbon: Kinetics and reaction mechanism Wei Liu, Chao Wang, Dangsheng Su, Wei Qi
Boron doped g-C3N4 as an effective metal-free solid base catalyst in Knoevenagel condensation Jianren Wei, Wanling Shen, Jun Zhao, Chengwei Zhang , Yonghua Zhou, Hongyang Liu
Green process or technology
An environmentally friendly process to selectively recover silver from copper anode slime
L. Xiao, Y.L. Wang, Y. Yu, G.Y. Fu, P.W. Han, Z.H.I. Sun, S.F. Ye Journal of Cleaner Production
Yuwei Wang, Guoying Zhang, XiaoFeng Chi, Shilong Chen Industrial Crops and Products
A promising approach to recover a spent SCR catalyst: Deactivation by arsenic and alkaline metals and catalyst regeneration Meng Li, Biao Liu, Xinran Wang, Xiaobin Yu, Shili Zheng, Hao Du, David Dreisinger, Yi Zhang Chemical Engineering Journal
Mingyong Wang, Xuzhong Gong, Zhi Wang Journal of Cleaner Production
A solvent-free route to non-isocyanate poly(carbonate urethane) with high molecular weight and competitive mechanical properties Ziyun Shen, Jie Zhang, Wenxiang Zhu, Liuchun Zheng, Chuncheng Li, Yaonan Xiao, Jiajian Liu, Shaohua Wu, Bo Zhang
Desulfurization of thiophenes in oils into H2SO4 using molecular oxygen
Chun Yang, Hongwei Ji, Chuncheng Chen, Wanhong Ma, Jincai Zhao Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
Biotechnological routes for transglutaminase production: Recent achievements, perspectives and limits Limin Wang, Bo Yu, Ruixuan Wang, Jianchun Xie
Review on the synthesis of dimethyl carbonate Hong-Zi Tan, Zhi-Qiao Wang, Zhong-Ning Xu, Jing Sun, Yu-Ping Xu, Qing-Song Chen, Yumin Chen, Guo-Cong Guo
Green synthesis of functional materials
Yaqi Wu, Zhaoan Chen, Yanan Liu, Yunpeng Xu, Zhongmin Liu Fuel
Self-templating synthesis nitrogen and sulfur co-doped hierarchical porous carbons derived from crab shells as a high-performance metal free oxygen electroreduction catalyst Yong-feng Li , Yan-zhen Liu, Shuai Chen, Peng-fei Wang , Shu-xia Yuan, Xiaoming Li, Hui Song, Cheng-meng Chen Materials Today Energy
Study of one-step photosynthesis of Ag nanoparticles
Fengjiao Zhao, Guanghua Ren, Canhua Zhou, Yang Yang Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Zhaoqian Fan, Yukun Qin, Song Liu, Ronge Xing, Pengcheng Li Carbohydrate Polymers
Han-Ping Yu, Ying-Jie Zhu, Bing-Qiang Lu Ceramics International
Scalable Room-Temperature Synthesis of Multi-shelled Na3(VOPO4)2F Microsphere Cathodes
Yuruo Qi, Zizheng Tong, Junmei Zhao, Lu Ma, Tianpin Wu, Huizhou Liu, Chao Yang, Jun Lu , Yong-Sheng Hu Joule
Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Fengxia Wu, Anaclet Nsabimana, Baohua Lou, Guobao Xu Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Fabrication of superhydrophobic cotton fabric with fluorinated TiO2 sol by a green and one-step sol-gel process Maiping Yang, Weiqu Liu, Chi Jiang, Sha He, Yankun Xie, Zhengfang Wang Carbohydrate Polymers
An aqueous-only, green route to exfoliate boron nitride for preparation of high thermal conductive boron nitride nanosheet/cellulose nanofiber flexible film Zhuorong Hu, Shan Wang, Guokang Chen, Qian zhang, Kun Wu, Jun Shi, Liyan Liang, Mangeng Lu
Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Fengxia Wu, Tadesse Haile Fereja, Baohua Lou, Guobao Xu
Green synthesis of functional materials
One step synthesis of N-doped activated carbons derived from sustainable microalgae-NaAlg composites for CO2 and CH4 adsorption Yaqi Wu, Zhaoan Chen, Yanan Liu, Yunpeng Xu, Zhongmin Liu
Self-templating synthesis nitrogen and sulfur co-doped hierarchical porous carbons derived from crab shells as a high-performance metal free oxygen electroreduction catalyst Yong-feng Li , Yan-zhen Liu, Shuai Chen, Peng-fei Wang , Shu-xia Yuan, Xiaoming Li, Hui Song, Cheng-meng Chen
Study of one-step photosynthesis of Ag nanoparticles
Fengjiao Zhao, Guanghua Ren, Canhua Zhou, Yang Yang
Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Synthesis, characterization, and antifungal evaluation of diethoxyphosphoryl polyaminoethyl chitosan derivatives Zhaoqian Fan, Yukun Qin, Song Liu, Ronge Xing, Pengcheng Li Carbohydrate Polymers
Highly efficient and environmentally friendly microwave-assisted hydrothermal rapid synthesis of ultralong hydroxyapatite nanowires Han-Ping Yu, Ying-Jie Zhu, Bing-Qiang Lu
Scalable Room-Temperature Synthesis of Multi-shelled Na3(VOPO4)2F Microsphere Cathodes Yuruo Qi, Zizheng Tong, Junmei Zhao, Lu Ma, Tianpin Wu, Huizhou Liu, Chao Yang, Jun Lu , Yong-Sheng Hu
Inositol directed facile “green” synthesis of fluorescent gold nanoclusters as selective and sensitive detecting probes of ferric ions Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Fengxia Wu, Anaclet Nsabimana, Baohua Lou, Guobao Xu
Fabrication of superhydrophobic cotton fabric with fluorinated TiO2 sol by a green and one-step sol-gel process Maiping Yang, Weiqu Liu, Chi Jiang, Sha He, Yankun Xie, Zhengfang Wang
An aqueous-only, green route to exfoliate boron nitride for preparation of high thermal conductive boron nitride nanosheet/cellulose nanofiber flexible film Zhuorong Hu, Shan Wang, Guokang Chen, Qian zhang, Kun Wu, Jun Shi, Liyan Liang, Mangeng Lu
One-pot green synthesis of supramolecular β-cyclodextrin functionalized gold nanoclusters and their application for highly selective and sensitive fluorescent detection of dopamine Mohamed Ibrahim Halawa, Fengxia Wu, Tadesse Haile Fereja, Baohua Lou, Guobao Xu
Sustainable recycling
A novel low cost microalgal harvesting technique with coagulant recovery and recycling Yang, Lan Wang, Haiyang Zhang, Cheng Li, Xuezhi Zhang, Qiang Hu Bioresource Technology
Powering the Future with Liquid Sunshine
Choon Fong Shih, Tao Zhang, Jinghai Li, Chunli Bai Joule
Purification and reuse of non-point source wastewater via Myriophyllum-based integrative biotechnology: A review Feng Liu, Shunan Zhang, Pei Luo, Xuliang Zhuang, Xiang Chen, Jinshui Wu
Biological carbon fixation: From natural to synthetic Fuyu Gong, Huawei Zhu, Yanping Zhang, Yin Li
Zinc-catalyzed ester bond cleavage: Chemical degradation of polyethylene terephthalate Yuqi Wang, Yao Zhang, Hongyan Song, Yingxiong Wang, Tiansheng Deng, Xianglin Hou
A sustainable process for metal recycling from spent lithium-ion batteries using ammonium chloride Weiguang Lv, Zhonghang Wang, Hongbin Cao, Xiaohong Zheng, Wei Jin, Yi Zhang, Zhi Sun
Assessment of low-carbon iron and steel production with CO2 recycling and utilization technologies: A case study in China Qianqian Chen, Yu Gu, Zhiyong Tang, Wei Wei, Yuhan Sun
Changming Li, Jian Yu, Wensong Li, Yi He, Yali Qiu, Ping Li, Chao Wang, Fulin Huang, Deliang Wang, Shiqiu Gao
Recycling of drinking water treatment residue as an additional medium in columns for effective P removal from eutrophic surface water Changhui Wang, Yu Wu, Leilei Bai, Yaqian Zhao, Zaisheng Yan, Helong Jiang, Xin Liu
Recycling waste polyethylene film for amphoteric superabsorbent resin synthesis Junping Zhang, Fushen Zhang
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