The United Nations General Assembly adopted a new sustainable development agenda, which includes 17 sustainable development goals to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all. If achieved, these 17 goals will fundamentally change the world for the better.

The chemical enterprise has a unique role to play in reaching these goals. Chemistry offers a broad spectrum of products and services essential to our daily lives that are safe, sustainable, and environmentally sound.

Therefore, we wanted to know more how young chemists can contribute to this and talked with Prof. David Cole-Hamilton, former president of the European Chemical Society and Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Andrews.

In our new series, we interview the winners of the prestigious European  Young Chemists' Award 2020 to discuss with them their research and also  ask them for advice for other young chemists.

In our new series, we interview the winners of the prestigious European Young Chemists' Award 2020 to discuss with them their research and also ask them for advice for other young chemists.

In our new series, we interview the winners of the prestigious European  Young Chemists' Award 2020 to discuss with them their research and also  ask them for advice for other young chemists.

In our new series, we interview the winners of the prestigious European Young Chemists' Award 2020 to discuss with them their research and also ask them for advice for other young chemists.

Today, we will discuss with Dr. Kelada what the correct definition of microplastics is, how they’re formed and advantages or disadvantages associated with them. Furthermore, we are talking about transparent wood as a novel building material, the ability to replace the transistors in our computer with single molecules and the effect of family income on children's brain development.

Could we produce useful chemicals while lowering the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere? In this month's episode, we are interviewing Prof. Victor Mougel from ETH Zurich to answer this and many more questions. We talk about the basics of CO2 reduction, the different approaches and their advantages and challenges. Furthermore, we are talking about the encryption of information in DNA, a new synthesis strategy to develop more efficient pharmaceuticals, and a new high throughput methodology for drug discovery.