Green Chemistry offers industry the advantage of environmentally responsible processes. By dealing with environmental impacts at the design stage of R&D, it is also possible to derive significant economic benefits as well. Regulatory, protection, handling and disposal costs are avoided when dealing with an environmentally benign material at the outset. Extrapolating from mechanisms found in natural systems, we have designed several environmentally benign materials that have commercial applications. This presentation will discuss metal oxide semiconductor nanoparticle coatings that avoid high temperature processing; Water-soluble, non-toxic photopolymers for photoresist applications based on DNA photochemistry and examples of non-covalent derivatization as a technique emoploying self assembly and crystal engineering. Mechanistic insight derived from natural processes will be discussed.
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