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Designing safer chemicals

Nature Sustainability volume 6, pages 3–4 (2023)Cite this article

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Julie Zimmerman takes a complete systems-thinking approach towards lowering consumption of non-renewable resources and the technological approaches to get there. As professor of chemical and environmental engineering, environment, and epidemiology at Yale University, she is taking green chemistry to new levels.

The moment when you realized you wanted to focus your research on designing chemicals and engineering technologies that are safer for humans and the natural world became a turning point in your career. Can you tell us about that?

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Palmer, L. Designing safer chemicals. Nat Sustain 6, 3–4 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-022-01016-1

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