Leveraging Atomic Scale Modeling for Design and Discovery of Next-Generation Battery Materials

Inspection and supervision of import and export hazardous chemicals is not only an important part of national quality management, but also a part of national security work. General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward in the report of the 19th CPC National Congress: “Establish the concept of safety development, carry forward the idea of life first and safety first, improve the public safety system, improve the safety production responsibility system and resolutely curb serious security incidents", pointing the way for the safety management of hazardous chemicals in the new era.

José Navarro was excited for his new career after landing a job in the poultry industry. After five years on the job, 37 year-old Navarro began coughing up blood. He died soon after when his lungs and kidneys failed. His death triggered a federal investigation raising questions about the health risks associated with the use of toxic chemicals in poultry plants. Millions of workers are exposed to chemicals everyday on the job. All workers have the right to know about the chemicals they work with and community health workers can be an important source of information and support for workers. This workshop will teach community health workers how to explain what happens when someone is exposed to chemicals and how workers can best protect themselves

More and more, the process industry is focusing on functional safety. Yet many chemical engineers lack a basic understanding of functional safety for their instrument safety loop.

A novel method for recycling PLA using low-temperature, low-pressure reactions with alcohol or water has recently been developed. PLA is used today in many applications ranging from food packaging to implantable medical devices. Because of its sensitivity to thermal degradation, PLA is difficult to recycle and actually becomes a contaminant in the plastics stream of municipal solid waste. Using the newly discovered process, different grades of PLA can be removed from a stream of commingled plastics and broken down to give high value chemicals. Some of these chemicals, called monomers, can be purified and used as feedstock to synthesize virgin PLA resin, thereby “closing the loop” on the PLA life cycle. This result is achieved by carrying out depolymerization reactions while the PLA is in solution.