RSC - Advancing the Chemical Sciences


Science Activities

 

Active Challenges


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To ensure progress is made where it matters most, we have identified challenges to actively promote. These will change over time, so please check back.


Wheat

Agricultural productivity

Significantly and sustainably increase agricultural productivity to provide food, feed, fibre and fuel


Electronic Waste

Conservation of scarce natural resources

Developing alternative materials and new recovery processes for valuable components which cannot be replaced.


Biomass

Conversion of biomass feedstocks

Developing biomass conversion technology to sustainably produce renewable fuels and chemicals.


Bacteria

Diagnostics

Advancing to earlier diagnosis and improved methods of monitoring disease.


Chemistry for Tomorrow's World

Drinking water quality

Making it a priority for everybody to get access to clean drinking water.


Pills

Drugs and therapies

Harnessing and enhancing basic sciences to help transform the entire drug discovery, development and healthcare landscape.


Electric Car

Energy conversion and storage

Improve the performance of energy conversion and storage technologies, such as batteries, and develop sustainable transport systems.


Nuclear

Nuclear energy

Ensure safe and efficient harnessing of nuclear energy, through the development of fission and investigation into fusion technologies.


Solar panels

Solar energy

Develop existing technologies into more cost efficient processes and develop the next generation of solar cells to realise the potential of solar energy.


Plastic Recycling

Sustainable product design

Reducing waste by considering the entire lifecycle during design and increasing downstream processing and re-use.


Contact and Further Information

RSC Roadmap
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WF
Tel: +44 01223 432189