Nature builds advanced functional materials in an inherently circular economy. The human built world needs to learn from nature to accomplish policy goals outlined in the UN SDGs. Material and processes can be invented to enable this that are inspired by nature. The molecular science that underpins the canonical principles of green chemistry provide a framework for making industrial materials and processes with high functional and environmental performance.
The paradigm shift to a circular economy is not hindered by a crisis of desire, but rather a lack of enabling science. This research topic aims to provide illustrious examples of success stories in the lab to inspire new directions that can map nature's processes into human design of industrial and everyday products. It aims to build and enhance the set of available processes aligned with the canonical principles of green chemistry, and turn these principles into practice.
The scope of the research topic includes innovative examples of green chemistry principles applied to material and manufacturing innovation (including the “design of chemical products and processes to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.”1,2 ), and new opportunities enabled by biofabrication, as well as metrics for evaluating functional and environmental performance of these principles in practice. Topics may include new synthesis routes, innovative green processing, mapping of form into functional materials through hierarchical structure, advances in environmentally benign processes to recover product feedstocks from waste, and design for degradation.
Keywords:
biofabrication, materials, green chemistry, sustainability, circular economy
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Nature builds advanced functional materials in an inherently circular economy. The human built world needs to learn from nature to accomplish policy goals outlined in the UN SDGs. Material and processes can be invented to enable this that are inspired by nature. The molecular science that underpins the canonical principles of green chemistry provide a framework for making industrial materials and processes with high functional and environmental performance.
The paradigm shift to a circular economy is not hindered by a crisis of desire, but rather a lack of enabling science. This research topic aims to provide illustrious examples of success stories in the lab to inspire new directions that can map nature's processes into human design of industrial and everyday products. It aims to build and enhance the set of available processes aligned with the canonical principles of green chemistry, and turn these principles into practice.
The scope of the research topic includes innovative examples of green chemistry principles applied to material and manufacturing innovation (including the “design of chemical products and processes to reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances.”1,2 ), and new opportunities enabled by biofabrication, as well as metrics for evaluating functional and environmental performance of these principles in practice. Topics may include new synthesis routes, innovative green processing, mapping of form into functional materials through hierarchical structure, advances in environmentally benign processes to recover product feedstocks from waste, and design for degradation.
Keywords:
biofabrication, materials, green chemistry, sustainability, circular economy
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.