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Supercritical fluids - green solvents for green chemistry?

13 - 14 April 2015 09:00 - 17:00

Scientific discussion meeting organised by Professor Peter Licence and Professor Andrew Cooper

Event details

Supercritical fluids (SCFs) are universally acknowledged to be strategically vital for the development of more sustainable (greener) chemistry.  SCFs are now being introduced as solvents for chemical synthesis, extraction and analysis, in both academia and industry. This meeting will focus on successes and innovations in this active field.

Abstracts and biographies of the organisers and speakers are available below. Papers from this meeting will be published in a future issue of Philosophical Transactions A.

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Organisers

  • Professor Peter Licence, University of Nottingham

    Recognised as a leader in the field of Green and Sustainable Chemistry, Licence’s philosophy is to develop a framework of stewardship to take atoms to products with minimal environmental impact.  Licence chaired the prestigious Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Green Chemistry in 2010; he is a Member of EPSRC College, an active reviewer for international grant awarding bodies and Associate Editor of the international journal ACS-Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.

    Principal research interests lie in the investigation, and development of efficient chemical transformations that allow the sustainable production of materials for application in the chemicals industry.  Scientific contributions lie principally at the interface of synthesis and measurement where he is recognised as pioneer of the field of ionic-liquid surface science. Principal scientific interests lie in the investigation of molecular interactions within ionic-liquids and solutions thereof, specifically at interfaces and discontinuities, i.e. catalytically active surfaces.

  • Professor Andrew Cooper FRS, University of Liverpool, UK

    Andy led the bid to establish the Materials Innovation Factory (MIF) via the UK Research Partnerships Infrastructure Fund and he is its first Academic Director. He is also the Director of the £10 M Leverhulme Centre for Functional Materials Design. His main research interests are organic materials, supramolecular chemistry, and materials for energy production and molecular separation. This is underpinned by a strong technical interest in high-throughput methods and robotics.

    Andy was elected to the Royal Society in 2015.  He has been awarded the Macro Group Young Researchers Award (2002), the RSC Award in Environmentally Friendly Polymers (2005), the McBain Medal (2007), the Corday-Morgan Prize (2009), the Macro Group Award (2010), a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, the Tilden Prize (2014), the American Chemical Society Doolittle Award (2014) and the Hughes Medal (2019).  He was also the 2015 MIT-Georgia Pacific Lecturer in Organic Chemistry. In both 2011 and 2014, Andy was named in a Thomson Reuters list as one of the Top 100 materials scientists of the last decade. He was also named in the more recent 2017 Clarivate Highly Cited list in the field of chemistry. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigators grant in 2012 (RobOT). In 2015, he was appointed as a Consultant Professor in Hauzhong University of Science & Technology, China. He was also appointed as an Honorary Professor at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, in 2017.