Green Chemistry

The engineer’s mantra, said Frances Arnold, a professor of chemical engineering at the California Institute of Technology, is: “Keep it simple, stupid.” But Dr. Arnold, who last year became just the fifth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is the opposite of stupid, and her stories sometimes turn rococo.

A team of researchers have designed a recyclable plastic that can be disassembled then reassembled without loss of performance or quality.

A novel collaboration between the School of Public Health and the College of Chemistry through the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry (BCGC) is leading the nation in reimagining chemistry education to reduce waste, develop safer chemicals, and achieve sustainability.

Research led by Richard Saykally reveals a surprising chemical pathway for a CO2 reaction important in many geological and biological processes.