Speaker articles

Take a look at what some of our A circular economy for the chemical sector speakers have published recently and chat with them about their work in Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Plenary speakers

Alexei Lapkin, University of Cambridge, UK

• CO₂ electroreduction favors carbon isotope ¹²C over ¹³C and facilitates isotope separation

• Transition to sustainable chemistry through digitalization

• Carbon neutral manufacturing via on-site CO₂ recycling

Manju Misra, University of Guelph, Canada

• Upcycling of waste polyolefins in natural fiber and sustainable filler-based biocomposites: A study on recent developments and future perspectives

• Creating Sustainable Composites from Pyrolyzed Burlap and Ocean-Recycled Plastics using FDM

• Valorization of almond shell biomass to biocarbon materials: Influence of pyrolysis temperature on their physicochemical properties and electrical conductivity

Deepak Pant, VITO NV, Belgium

• Solvents and Supporting Electrolytes in the Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO₂

• Microbial electrosynthesis of acetate from CO₂ in three-chamber cells with gas diffusion biocathode under moderate saline conditions

• The Economics of Electrochemical Syngas Production via Direct Air Capture

Susannah Scott, UC Santa Barbara, USA

• Bifunctional tandem catalytic upcycling of polyethylene to surfactant-range alkylaromatics

• Chemical Upcycling of Polyethylene to Value-Added α,ω-Divinyl-Functionalized Oligomers

• Bioinspired methane oxidation in a zeolite

Chris Slootweg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

• Safe and sustainable by design: A computer-based approach to redesign chemicals for reduced environmental hazards

• Using waste as resource to realize a circular economy: Circular use of C, N and P

• Circular chemistry to enable a circular economy

Invited speakers

Ida Amura, AstraZeneca, UK

• Fabrication of self-doped sulfonated polyaniline membranes with enhanced antifouling ability and improved solvent resistance

Melissa Bilec, University of Pittsburgh, USA

• Quantifying and spatializing building material stock and renovation flow for circular economy

• Is Convergence Around The Circular Economy Necessary? Exploring the Productivity of Divergence in US Circular Economy Discourse and Practice

• Just by design: exploring justice as a multidimensional concept in US circular economy discourse

Eugene Chen, Colorado State University, USA

• Hybrid monomer design for unifying conflicting polymerizability, recyclability, and performance properties

• Mono-material product design with bio-based, circular, and biodegradable polymers

• Chemically circular, mechanically tough, and melt-processable polyhydroxyalkanoates

Miao Guo, King's College London, UK

• Surrogate-based optimisation of process systems to recover resources from wastewater

• Resource recovery from food-processing wastewaters in a circular economy: a methodology for the future

• Sustainable Design of Urban Rooftop Food Energy-Land Nexus

Mingming Hu, Leiden University, Netherlands

• Circular construction: Six key recommendations

• Potential of BREEAM-C to support building circularity assessment: Insights from case study and expert interview

Eleni Iacovidou, Brunel University London, UK

• Keep circularity meaningful, inclusive and practical: A view into the plastics value chain

• Unpacking the complexity of the polyethylene food contact articles value chain: A chemicals perspective

• Charting success for the Plastics Treaty

Marina Pieroni, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Denmark

• Overarching Business Models for a Circular Bioeconomy: Systematising archetypes

• Lessons, narratives, and research directions for a sustainable circular economy

• Circular economy business model innovation: Sectorial patterns within manufacturing companies

Nicholas Rorrer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), USA

• Chemical upcycling of polyethylene, polypropylene, and mixtures to high-value surfactants

• Subcritical CO₂–H₂O hydrolysis of polyethylene terephthalate as a sustainable chemical recycling platform†

• The Critical Role of Process Analysis in Chemical Recycling and Upcycling of Waste Plastics

Sara Saberi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA

• Designing a reverse supply chain network with quality control for returned products: Strategies to mitigate free-riding effect and ensure compliance with technology licensing requirements

Célia Sapart, CO₂ Value Europe, Belgium

• Carbon capture and utilization: More than hiding CO₂ for some time

• Source apportionment of methane escaping the subsea permafrost system in the outer Eurasian Arctic Shelf

• Carbon and Hydrogen Isotope Signatures of Dissolved Methane in the Scheldt Estuary

Ning Sun, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA

• A hybrid chemical-biological approach can upcycle mixed plastic waste with reduced cost and carbon footprint

• Conversion of Paper and Food-rich Municipal Solid Waste Streams to Ethanol through Bioprocessing

• Enhanced microbial production of protocatechuate from engineered sorghum using an integrated feedstock-to-product conversion technology

Magda Titirici, Imperial College, UK

• Beyond Li-ion batteries: performance, materials diversification, and sustainability

• Lignin: A sustainable precursor for nanostructured carbon materials for supercapacitors

• Near ambient N₂ fixation on solid electrodes versus enzymes and homogeneous catalysts

Ina Vollmer, Utrecht University, Netherlands

• Green Additives in Chitosan-based Bioplastic Films: Long-term Stability Assessment and Aging Effects

• Towards a Cradle-to-Cradle Polyolefin Lifecycle

• Leveraging mechanochemistry for sustainable polymer degradation

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