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Seven innovative research projects led by promising young scientists will receive the 2019 Green Chemistry for Life research grants. The grants aim to provide support for green chemistry solutions and to encourage the elaboration by young scientists of projects that focus on the designing of sustainable products and processes that minimize or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.

One of the grants provides support for a research project on the use of phosphogypsum, a by-product generated in great quantities when producing phosphoric acid and phosphate fertilizers. 

An International Scientific Jury selected these seven projects among many proposals of a high scientific standard, submitted by young scientists who have completed their PhDs. The grants programme is part of the .

The formal award-giving ceremony will be held in the framework of the World Science Day for Peace and Development 2019 that takes places at UNESCO headquarters in Paris (France) on 8 November.

2019 Green Chemistry for Life grants: 

Dr Sara Abdel Hamid Abdel Gaber

Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh - Egypt

For the project: Phytomediated Green Synthesis of Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

Dr Jesús Campos Manzano

Institute for Chemical Research (IIQ), CSIC-University of Sevilla, Seville - Spain

For the project: Tandem Catalysis for Plastic Degradation

Dr María Antonieta Fernández-Herrera

Laboratory of Biomolecules and Biomaterials, Department of Applied Physics, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados, Unidad Mérida, Merida, Yucatan - Mexico

For the project: Development of plant growth regulators for habanero pepper from Yucatan Peninsula through an eco-friendly chemical transformation of steroidal sapogenins

Dr Galina Kalashnikova

Nanomaterials Research Centre of the Federal Research Centre “Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences” (FRC KSC RAS), Apatity, Murmansk Region – Russian Federation

For the project: The development of a universal and green method for the granulation of synthetic titanosilicate materials (sorbents, catalysts, recoverable matrices) created based on end-product waste from regional ore-enrichment and metallurgical plants

Dr Wilbert Mtangi

Institute of Materials Science, Processing and Engineering Technology, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Chinhoyi - Zimbabwe

For the project: Hydrogen generation using chiral photoelectrodes for water splitting

Dr Abu Ashfaqur Sajib

Laboratory of Molecular Biotechnology, Department of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka - Bangladesh

For the project: Novel multifunctional enzyme for biofuel production from lignocellulosic wastes

2019 Green Chemistry special grant for research projects on Phosphogypsum

Dr Hamdy Hefny

Central Metallurgical Research and Development Institute (CMRDI), Helwan, Cairo - Egypt

For the project: Utilization of Phosphogypsum for Heavy Metals Immobilization in Contaminated Soil and Extraction of Useful Materials