Helping Incorporate Safe and Sustainability into Materials Research: A Checklist Tool Designed for Early Career Researchers

Chemicals and materials with essential and functional uses are central to economic and social well-being. However, the development and application of such items may be challenged when sustainability factors are considered. These are further challenged by disciplinary gaps and concerns over reproduci...

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Published inACS sustainable chemistry & engineering Vol. 10; no. 45; pp. 14658 - 14664
Main Authors Bechu, Aude, Mittal, Krittika, Xu, Ke, Yekani, Rana, Demopoulos, George P., Moores, Audrey, Basu, Niladri
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published American Chemical Society 14.11.2022
Subjects
Evaluation
Reproducibility
Environmental health
Checklist
Benchmarking
Interdisciplinary research
Green chemistry
Sustainable development
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Summary:Chemicals and materials with essential and functional uses are central to economic and social well-being. However, the development and application of such items may be challenged when sustainability factors are considered. These are further challenged by disciplinary gaps and concerns over reproducible and responsible research. Here, we detail a checklist for early career researchers on how “to do” research on chemicals, materials, processes, and products in a manner that is safe and sustainable by design. The checklist contains 20 items that are organized into five interconnected sections: (1) think broad and big, (2) set a clear research foundation, (3) focus on quality and reproducibility, (4) flag safe and sustainability issues, and (5) communicate, listen, and learn. Each item can be self-scored on 0–3 scale. This checklist is meant to be a fast tool to help researchers better “think and do” things so that outcomes and outputs may help address societal grand challenges.
ISSN:2168-0485
2168-0485
DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.2c03829