Green chemistry for chemical synthesis addresses our future challenges in working with chemical processes and products by inventing novel reactions that can maximize the desired products and minimize by-products, designing new synthetic schemes and apparati that can simplify operations in chemical productions, and seeking greener solvents that are inherently environmentally and ecologically ben...

The design of green and sustainable extraction methods of natural products is currently a hot research topic in the multidisciplinary area of applied chemistry, biology and technology. Herein we aimed to introduce the six principles of green-extraction, describing a multifaceted strategy to apply this concept at research and industrial level. The mainstay of this working protocol are new and in...

We study inequalities for the infima of Green potentials on a compact subset of an arbitrary domain in the complex plane. The results are based on a new representation of the pseudohyperbolic farthest-point distance function via a Green potential. We also give applications to sharp inequalities for the supremum norms of Blaschke products. 1. Green potentials Let G ⊂ C be a domain possessing the...

Recently, several investigations have shown that the high antioxidant potential of honey can also be exploited to develop new approaches to the efficient production and processing of nanomaterials [2-4], which offer interesting advantages over the conventional routes: they are quite simple, economically competitive and reduce risks to human health and the environment [5]. In addition, these gre...

The ‘attitude–behaviour gap’ or ‘values–action gap’ is where 30% of consumers report that they are very concerned about environmental issues but they are struggling to translate this into purchases. For example, the market share for ethical foods remains at 5 per cent of sales. This paper investigates the purchasing process for green consumers in relation to consumer technology products in the ...

BACKGROUND It is important for industries to find green chemistries for manufacturing their products that have utility, are cost-effective and that protect the environment. The paper industry is no exception. Renewable resources derived from plant components could be an excellent substitute for the chemicals that are currently used as paper binders. Air laid pressed paper products that are typi...

The non-sustainable use of water creates major environmental problems on a world wide scale. It is even an issue in regions with a relative abundance of this resources, like the Alps. Here, major problems are associated with the construction of dams and the operation of hydropower plants. The environmental impact of hydropower has been subjected to a fierce political debate in the eighties, esp...