Research

The Yale Center supports and advances research in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, a critical component to building the community, designing and discovering innovative solutions, and achieving a sustainable future. The Center serves as a catalyst to both Yale and the greater Green Chemistry and Engineering communities for discipline-specific and cross-disciplinary research collaborations focused on key areas of GC&GE within science, technology, and policy for sustainability. Through fundamental and applied research initiatives, the Yale Center aims to unleash the creativity and innovation of scientists and engineers in designing and discovering the next generation of chemicals, materials, products, processes, and systems so that they provide increased performance and increased value while meeting all goals to protect and enhance human health and the environment.

On-going Activities:

Catalogue of current Yale efforts in Green Chemistry and Green Engineering

The Center is currently performing a comprehensive cataloguing of on-going efforts on Yale campus relevant to GC&GE to build a network for future synergies and cooperation among Yale researchers.

Designing Safer Chemicals

With emerging knowledge and continuing focused research on mechanisms of action in the body and in the biosphere, molecular scientists will be further prepared to begin building in reduced hazard as a performance criterion to the next generation of molecules that are the basis of our products, processes, and systems. The Yale Center is bringing together all of the relevant knowledge from various disciplines to develop a design hierarchy for safer chemicals.

Water Treatment for Developing Communities

Providing safe water for improved health to the global population is a long-term goal; however, relying only on time- and resource-intensive centralized solutions such as piped, treated water will leave hundreds of millions of people without safe water far into the future. Subsequently, our current research focuses on the design, development, and implementation of point-of-use water treatment technologies that are low-cost, use local materials, and are appropriate for the local community and culture while maintaining high-level performance for improved water quality and human health.

See Also:

Research in the Anastas group

Research in the Zimmerman group