Cleaner Futures (Next-Generation Sustainable Materials for Consumer Products).

更清洁的未来（消费品的下一代可持续材料）。

• 批准号: EP/V038117/1
• 负责人: Matthew Rosseinsky
• 金额: $ 353.73万
• 依托单位: University of Liverpool
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FV038117%2F1
• 关键词: Cleaner; Futures; Next; Generation; Sustainable

Unilever has a longstanding strategic partnership with the University of Liverpool. To date, the focus has been on cocreating shared scientific capability. Over £100M has been co-invested since 2006 to drive knowledge leadership, improved productivity, reduced time to market, and high-value IP portfolios. This new partnership will address how to achieve the UK Government's 2019 target of Net-Zero by 2050, through disruptive innovation in the current chemical supply chain. It is a fundamental scientific step-change over our current collaboration, motivated by a shared commitment to achieve Net-Zero through new, targeted, co-developed chemical science.The majority of chemicals currently used in consumer products (such as shampoo & laundry liquids) are derived from virgin petrochemicals, many are not biodegradable. Unilever has a strategic target to replace its current formulation ingredients with non-petroleum sourced materials designed for environmental degradation. Currently, its suppliers cannot supply this type of material in sufficient quantity. This Prosperity Partnership will address this, through its ambitious vision to co-create the science base for a radically transformed sustainable consumer products materials platform in a Net-Zero world.The project has four tightly integrated technical work-packages. They will deliver a versatile suite of catalyst materials for sustainable production of surfactants, monomers, and polymers from waste, new tools for measuring and predicting polymer bio-degradability, state-of-the-art predictive digital methods, and high-throughput lab techniques. A dedicated work-package will undertake a detailed consideration of the wider social, ecological and economic consequences of the science programme, and how the outputs of the chemistry research can be translated into a wider Innovation Ecosystem.The project will deliver a wide range of outcomes and impacts including new scientific platforms for designing and inventing renewable and bio-degradable materials, and new routes to make these materials. This fundamental research will greatly benefit the UK and Global scientific communities in the development of Net-Zero aligned chemistries.Our 5Ps for PROSPERITY framework will be used to deliver key outcomes.PEOPLE: High calibre research and innovation staff, with the ability to create and deploy new knowledge, are the human capital we will need to deliver Net-Zero innovation. The level of ambition of the project and the translational research environment of the Materials Innovation Factory will provide a unique training and professional development opportunity for students, researchers, Unilever staff, and other company staff involved in the project and wider ecosystem.PARTNERSHIPS: new knowledge-based partnerships will be used to orchestrate an Innovation Ecosystem (TRL 1-9) that can maximise value creation and exploitation from the project.PATENTS: Numerous high-value inventions, with wide applicability, including outside Unilever's core interests, will be used to galvanise investors into backing these innovative ideas with expertise and capital. A range of investment routes will be explored to exploit high-value IP (e.g. Unilever patent filings, UoL in-house filing/commercialisation, partnerships with commercial IP development teams).PLATFORMS: Digital platforms package and exploit scientific know-how, underpin partnerships, monetise and exploit clever ideas. We will create new digital platforms to exploit project insights. Fully engineered platforms based on new digital assets from this project will be the focus of further funding and investment.PUBLICATIONS: Seminal academic papers in high quality peer-reviewed journals.The project is aligned to Global, National, and Regional agendas including: UN Sustainable Development Goals, UK Industrial Strategy, UK Chemistry Council Strategy, EPSRC delivery plan, and Liverpool City Region Local Industrial Strategy.

联合利华与利物浦大学建立了长期的战略伙伴关系。迄今为止，重点一直放在共同的科学能力上。自2006年以来，已共同投资超过1亿英镑，以提高知识领导力，提高生产率，减少市场时间以及高价值IP投资组合。这种新的合作伙伴关系将通过当前的化学供应链中的破坏性创新来解决到2050年，到2050年如何实现英国政府2019年Net-Zero的目标。这是对我们当前合作的根本科学阶梯变化，这是由通过新的，有针对性的，共同开发的化学科学实现净零的承诺的推动。联合利华具有战略目标，可以用专为环境降解的非甲状化材料代替其当前配方奶粉成分。目前，其供应商无法提供足够数量的这种材料。这种繁荣合作伙伴关系将通过其雄心勃勃的愿景来解决这一问题，即在一个零零世界中共同创建一个根本转化的可持续消费产品材料平台的科学基础。该项目具有四个紧密整合的技术工作包。他们将提供一套多功能的催化剂材料套件，用于从废物中可持续生产表面活性剂，单体和聚合物，新的工具，用于测量和预测聚合物生物脱位性，最先进的预测性数字方法以及高通量实验室技术。专门的工作包将对科学计划的广泛社会，生态和经济后果进行详细考虑，以及如何将化学研究的产出如何转化为广泛的创新生态系统。该项目将带来广泛的淘汰和影响，包括新的科学平台设计和发明可再生和生物构造的材料，以使这些材料和新的材料和新材料以及这些材料和新的材料以及这些材料以及这些材料以及这些材料以及这些材料。这项基本研究将极大地使英国和全球科学界在开发净零化学的发展方面受益匪浅。我们的5P繁荣框架将用于提供关键的成果。Pepeople：高素质的研究和创新员工，具有创造和部署新知识的能力，是我们需要提供Net-Zero Innovation的新知识。材料创新厂的野心和翻译研究环境水平将为学生，研究人员，联合利华的员工以及参与该项目和更广泛生态系统的其他公司员工提供独特的培训和专业发展机会。新知识的伙伴关系将用于基于知识的合作伙伴关系，可用于使许多创新生态系统（TRL 1-9）的数量创造：具有广泛适用性的邀请，包括联合利华之外的核心利益，将用于激发投资者的支持，以使用专家和资本来支持这些创新的想法。将探索一系列投资路线来利用高价值IP（例如联合利华专利申请，UOL内部申请/商业化，与商业IP开发团队的合作伙伴关系）。平台：数字平台包装和利用科学知识，基础伙伴关系，Monetise和Monetise和Monetise和Exploit Clevely Idep。我们将创建新的数字平台来利用项目见解。 Fully engineered platforms based on new digital assets from this project will be the focus of further funding and investment.PUBLICATIONS: Seminal academic papers in high quality peer-reviewed journals.The project is aligned to Global, National, and Regional agendas including: UN Sustainable Development Goals, UK Industrial Strategy, UK Chemistry Council Strategy, EPSRC delivery plan, and Liverpool City Region Local Industrial Strategy.

项目成果

Synergic Heterodinuclear Catalysts for the Ring-Opening Copolymerization (ROCOP) of Epoxides, Carbon Dioxide, and Anhydrides.

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.2c00197
• 发表时间: 2022-08-02
• 期刊: ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH
• 影响因子: 18.3
• 作者: Diment, Wilfred T.;Lindeboom, Wouter;Fiorentini, Francesca;Deacy, Arron C.;Williams, Charlotte K.
• 通讯作者: Williams, Charlotte K.