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Asked by anon-353601 on 16 Mar 2023. This question was also asked by anon-353565.
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Maike Wilschnack answered on 16 Mar 2023:
My research is on improving wastewater treatment to reduce any harmful effects wastewater can have on our environment. I think protecting our environment does always help people, not only because we keep an important food source, but also the beauty of it.
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Arno Kraft answered on 17 Mar 2023:
I am no longer research-active. However, 30-odd years I was lucky enough to work in a research group that developed the first organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The efficiency was very low at the time, but it was clear that there was potential in this idea. It took 20+ years of further development by many others for OLEDs to become household names. So, the answer to your question is probably yes, indirectly, and after a lot of patience.
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Martin McCoustra answered on 17 Mar 2023:
One of the projects we’ve started recently is looking at how to recycle waste plastic into simpler materials that we can re-introduce into the production cycle rather than burning the waste for energy as that does nothing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We need plastic, it is a very useful material. The problem is the current linear.. make, use, dispose – approach to plastic. We need to go over to a – make, use, recover and recycle – approach to plastics.
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Ai-Lan Lee answered on 17 Mar 2023:
One of the main themes in our research is to improve the sustainability of chemical reactions. If we can do that, it translates to the ability to make our medicines, materials, cosmetics etc. in a more sustainable way. For example, one of our projects is about harnessing the energy of light to do our chemical reactions, instead of using high temperatures (the latter of which is much more energy inefficient). We also try to cut down on expensive/toxic metals in our chemical reactions and look for “greener” alternatives.
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