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When “Green” Isn’t Green: Rethinking Green Solvents
Author(s)Elia Psillakis, Alasdair Matheson
Elia Psillakis discusses how a life cycle view of solvents exposes unexpected impacts in chemicals long considered safe, challenging entrenched ideas of greenness in analytical labs.
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LCGC International spoke to Elia Psillakis of the Technical University of Crete about GreenSOL, the first solvent selection guide developed specifically for analytical chemistry, and what it reveals about the often‑hidden environmental trade‑offs embedded in everyday laboratory practice.1,2
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