Themed collection UN Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education

Schematic overview of biomass-based aerogels.

HPTPs exhibit ordered porosity and tunable coordination environments. This review highlights the synthetic strategies, structural morphology, and multifunctional applications spanning catalysis, adsorption, ion exchange, sensing, and energy storage.

The use of low(er) purity chemicals leads to size-controlled gold nanoparticles that are active catalysts for water treatment.

The interdisciplinary nature of green chemistry requires innovative approaches for engaging broad audiences, making active learning and gamified learning of interest for exploring green chemistry in classrooms and conference settings.

A newly-developed undergraduate-level lab activity allows students to explore previously inaccessible topics in atmospheric chemistry and air quality.

Through an inquiry-based approach, ninth-grade secondary students gain an understanding of how material degradation occurs in the environment, and their conclusions reveal the underlying principles of green chemistry.

Acylals can be synthesised quickly under microwave irradiation using Cyrene as a sustainable solvent. The products can be purified by precipitation from water or by a solvent-sparing chromatography, as described in this study.

In an affordable, scalable, and ‘green’ inaugural experiment for a nanochemistry teaching laboratory course, students examine surface-capped iron oxide nanoparticles as model catalysts for a Fenton-like dye degradation reaction in water.