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Luque, Yan, You: 2018 Winners of the ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Awards ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, the ACS Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division (I&EC), and the ACS Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division (CELL) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Awards. These awards recognize the research contributions of scientists, working in green chemistry, green engineering and sustainability in the chemical enterprise, who have completed their academic training within the past 10 years. Lectureship award winners are selected for three regions: The Americas, Europe/Middle East/Africa, and Asia/Pacific. The winners of the 2018 ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship Award are • Professor Rafael Luque of the University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Spain), honored for his work on mechanochemical, solventless synthesis of nanomaterials for heterogeneously catalyzed applications and flow processes, and his work on converting biomass to valuable chemicals.1−5 • Professor Ning Yan of National University of Singapore (Singapore), honored for pioneering the “Waste Shell Biorefinery” concept, including catalyst and process development for converting chitin based materials, as well as lignocellulose, and waste cooking oil, into fuels and chemicals.6−10 • Professor Fengqi You of Cornell University (Ithaca, New York, USA), honored for his contributions in process systems engineering, sustainability analytics, and life cycle optimization of supply chains.11−15 The winners will be honored at an I&EC/CELL Division symposium in their honor at the 255th ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, March 18−22, 2018. We thank the community of scientists devoted to sustainable chemistry and engineering for the enthusiastic response to our second call for lectureship award nominations. Details of the next award cycle will be available in Spring 2018 or by sending inquiries to Award.
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(2) Li, S.; Lai, J.; Luque, R.; Xu, G. Designed multimetallic Pd nanosponges with enhanced electrocatalytic activity for ethylene glycol and glycerol oxidation. Energy Environ. Sci. 2016, 9, 3097−3102. (3) Lai, J.; Li, S.; Wu, F.; Saqib, M.; Luque, R.; Xu, G. Unprecedented metal-free 3D porous carbonaceous electrodes for water splitting. Energy Environ. Sci. 2016, 9, 1210−1214. (4) Milovanovic, J.; Rajic, N.; Romero, A. A.; Li, H.; Shih, K.; Tschentscher, R.; Luque, R. Insights into the Microwave-Assisted Mild Deconstruction of Lignin Feedstocks Using NiO Containing ZSM-5 Zeolites. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2016, 4, 4305−4313. (5) Xu, C.; Ojeda, M.; Arancon, R. A. D.; Romero, A. A.; Domingo, J. L.; Gomez, M.; Blanco, J.; Luque, R. Bioinspired Porous ZnO Nanomaterials from Fungal Polysaccharides: Advanced Materials with Unprecedented Low Toxicity in Vitro for Human Cells. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2015, 3 (11), 2716−2725. (6) Yan, N.; Chen, X. Sustainability: Don’t Waste Seafood Waste. Nature 2015, 524, 155−157. (7) Gao, X.; Chen, X.; Zhang, J.; Guo, W.; Jin, F.; Yan, N. Transformation of Chitin and Waste Shrimp Shells into Acetic Acid and Pyrrole. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2016, 4, 3912−3920. (8) Zhang, J.; Teo, J.; Chen, X.; Asakura, H.; Tanaka, T.; Teramura, K.; Yan, N. A Series of NiM (M = Ru, Rh, and Pd) Bimetallic Catalysts for Effective Lignin Hydrogenolysis in Water. ACS Catal. 2014, 4, 1574−1583. (9) Zhang, B.; Asakura, H.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, J.; De, S.; Yan, N. Stabilizing a Platinum1 Single-Atom Catalyst on Supported Phosphomolybdic Acid without Compromising Hydrogenation Activity. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 8319−8323. (10) Zhang, Z.; Zhu, Y.; Asakura, H.; Zhang, B.; Zhang, J.; Zhou, M.; Han, Y.; Tanaka, T.; Wang, A.; Zhang, T.; Yan, N. Thermally stable single atom Pt/m-Al2O3 for selective hydrogenation and CO oxidation. Nat. Commun. 2017, 8, 16100. (11) Gong, J.; Garcia, D. J.; You, F. Unraveling Optimal Biomass Processing Routes from Bioconversion Product and Process Networks under Uncertainty: An Adaptive Robust Optimization Approach. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2016, 4, 3160−3173. (12) Gong, J.; Darling, S. B.; You, F. Perovskite Photovoltaics: LifeCycle Assessment of Energy and Environmental Impacts. Energy Environ. Sci. 2015, 8, 1953−1968. (13) Yang, M.; You, F. Comparative Techno-economic and Environmental Analysis of Ethylene and Propylene Manufacturing from Wet Shale Gas and Naphtha. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2017, 56, 4038−4051. (14) You, F.; Tao, L.; Graziano, D.; Snyder, S. W. Optimal Design of Sustainable Cellulosic Biofuel Supply Chains: Multiobjective Optimization Coupled with Life Cycle Assessment and Input-Output Analysis. AIChE J. 2012, 58, 1157−1180. (15) Sustainability of Products, Processes and Supply Chains: Theory and Applications; You, F., Ed.; Elsevier Press, 2015.
David T. Allen, Editor-in-Chief
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University of Texas at Austin, United States
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(1) Jodlowski, A. D.; Yepez, A.; Luque, R.; Camacho, L.; de Miguel, G. Benign-by-Design Solventless Mechanochemical Synthesis of Three-, Two-, and One-Dimensional Hybrid Perovskites. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 14972−14977. © 2017 American Chemical Society
Received: August 16, 2017 Published: September 5, 2017 7450
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b02826 ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 2017, 5, 7450−7450
