MATERIALS & SURFACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE


PRESENTATION BY
Professor Martyn Poliakoff
School of Chemistry
University of Nottingham

PRESENTATION TITLE
Engineering a Better World Through Green Chemistry



ABSTRACT
The aim of Green Chemistry is to develop environmentally more acceptable routes for the manufacture of chemicals and materials. Therefore, it straddles the interface between Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. In this presentation, Professor Poliakoff will explain how he became involved in Green Chemistry via his interest in supercritical fluids and give some examples where these fluids can offer a real advantage. The second part will outline how he and his colleagues are now taking Green Chemistry to Africa, and to Ethiopia in particular and developing greener processes that may one day help these countries.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Professor Martyn Poliakoff studied at King’s College, Cambridge, B.A (1969) and Ph.D. (1973) under the supervision of J. J. Turner FRS on the Matrix Isolation of Large Molecules. In 1972, he was appointed Research/Senior Research Officer in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1979, he moved to a Lectureship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham. Promotion to Reader in Inorganic Chemistry and then to Professor of Chemistry followed in 1985 and 1991 respectively. In addition, he is Honorary Professor of Chemistry at Moscow State University. From 1994-99, he held an EPSRC/Royal Academy of Engineering Clean Technology Fellowship at Nottingham. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (2002), of the RSC (2002) and of the IChemE (2004). He was awarded CBE (2008) for “Services to Sciences”, made Honorary Member of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia (2008) and Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2011). He is a Council Member of the IChemE and Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society (2011-16). His research interests are focussed on supercritical fluids, continuous reactions and their applications to Green Chemistry. Watch the Periodic Table live www.periodicvideos.com


PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF USUAL VENUE TO LG-011 LONSDALE BUILDING


DATE:    Wednesday, 9 May 2012
TIME:    12h00
VENUE:    LG-011 Lonsdale Building


REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED AT 11h45
For further information, please contact:
Professor Edmond Magner, Tel. No:  (061) 202629 or Email: edmond.magner@ul.ie