Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions (GC/CS)

Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions (GC/CS) is an ambitious project, launched by ACS in 2008, to identify the world’s most pressing sustainability challenges, and explore the solutions emerging from chemistry.
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Scientists have proposed first
mobile app to promote wider
use of environmentally friendly
and sustainable principles of
green chemistry
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Our Sustainable Future: First mobile app green chemistry fosters sustainable manufacturing of medicines

May 13, 2013

Summary

Mention mobile applications, or mobile apps, and people think of games, email, news, weather, productivity and other software for Apple, Android and other smart phones and tablet computers. But an app with broader impact — the first mobile application to foster wider use of the environmentally friendly and sustainable principles of green chemistry — is the topic of a report in the American Chemical Society’s new journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. More »

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