About the programme

Ian Cotgreave, RISE, and Jonathan Martin, Stockholm University

The specific objectives are:

• Define and systematically apply WP tools in defined approaches tailored to each Mistra SafeChem case study.
• Continuously improve the toolboxes to adapt to emerging needs and challenges within the case studies.
• Support and facilitate key decisions made in the development of processes within the case studies resulting in compliance with EU’s SSbD criteria.
• Stimulate inter and intra WP collaboration in the development of digital data workflows facilitating efficient and effective interplay between exposure and hazard data and LCA calculations.
• By the above, provide a proven and stainable research infrastructure for continued support to Swedish innovation beyond the Mistra SafeChem programme.
  

Belén Martin-Matute, Stockholm University, and Per-Olof Syrén, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Research focus center around the manufacturing, creation, and enhancement of sustainable chemicals and diverse materials while adhering to the principles of Green Chemistry. This encompasses the following aspects:

• Transforming low-value residues into valuable commodity materials and chemicals.
• Pioneering new catalytic techniques in line with the principles of green and sustainable chemistry.
• Assess the sustainability of these methods through predictive life cycle assessment (LCA) and toxicity evaluation.

Tomas Rydberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute, Anna-Karin Hellström, RISE

The specific objectives are:

• To further advance the life cycle based chemicals assessment toolbox and increase its utility to industry.
• To strengthen the link with the machine learning world to increase chemical space coverage.
• To increase focus on life cycle inventory (LCI) relevant for chemical footprints and by that reduce associated uncertainty.
• Develop prospective LCA methods applicable to a (re)design context and an aim to reduce exposure to hazardous chemicals.
  

Jan-Erling Bäckvall and Belén Martin-Matute, Stockholm University

The specific objectives are:

• Optimization of catalyst loading for pivotal chemical reactions.
• Refining the efficiency of reactions to make C-N and C-C bonds.
• Developing a strategy for the recovery and subsequent reuse of the copper metal, including the recovery of resources from wastes.
• Develop more sustainable alternatives to current copper-catalysed reactions to make C-N and C-C bonds, including less harmful reagents and immobilization.
  

Belén Martin-Matute and Jan-Erling Bäckvall, Stockholm University

The specific objectives are:

• To formulate a plan for the retrieval and/or reutilization of precious metal resources employed in organic synthesis, specifically from the generated waste.
• Identify relevant parameters for process optimization.
• Maintaining high levels of activity and selectivity in both solvent-free and solvent-assisted reactions with heterogenized rare-metal catalysts.
• Develop more sustainable alternatives to current platinum metal group-catalysed reactions, including less harmful reagents and solvents.

Joseph Samec and Aji Mathew, Stockholm University

The specific objectives are:

• To design a safe and sustainable value chain from lignin to a unique material, including circularity in terms of production, use phase and recycling and assessment of chemical hazard and risk.
• To apply novel experimental analytical methods for the early prediction and verification of potential toxic substances in lignin valorisation and products.

Aji Mathew, Stockholm University, Anna-Karin Hellström, RISE

The specific objectives are:

• To develop and evaluate safer and cleaner processes for textile recycling with focus on evaluating surfactants and existing/novel oxidants for textile upcycling into nanocellulose.
• To evaluate the process flexibility and adaptability for heterogenous textile feeds.
• To support industry with fast and simple-to-use analytical screening technology that can be established as standard methodology to design out hazardous chemicals at an early stage of production.
• To incorporate the Defined Approach (DA) for hazard and risk into the assessment, and further develop non-target screening methods for unknown textile compounds and incorporate into LCA and chemical footprint assessment.

Per-Olof Syrén, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Tomas Rydberg, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute

The specific objectives are:

• To develop methods for enzymes and light drive to complex synthesis of leads with minimal environmental impact and reduced energy consumption.
• To identify the structure-function relationships of late stage functionalization.
• To identify building blocks meeting safety and sustainability criteria.
• To assess the new processes for safety and sustainability.