Entrepreneurship Zone: 21 August 2020: Zim planeteer saving the earth with green chemistry

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Entrepreneurship Zone: 21 August 2020: Zim planeteer saving the earth with
green chemistry

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Emmie Chiyindiko grew up in Zimbabwe dreaming of superheroes and watching
Captain Planet and the Planeteers, but now she’s a chemist exploring green
chemistry: reducing the carbon footprint by making industrial processes more
efficient.

The 26-year-old, now a chemistry PhD student at South Africa’s University of
Free State, says she studies catalysts (materials that speed up chemical
reactions) in order to find better, cheaper and less toxic versions.

“By understanding their structure and reactivity, this helps in the design
of chemical processes to maximise the sustainability of industrial
activity,” she said,

“The objective of my research is to reduce pollution at its source by
minimising time and material required to produce energy.”

Chiyindiko says this is particularly important in South Africa, where she is
now based.

“South Africa is the world’s 14th largest emitter of greenhouse gases and
like many countries have done, South Africa has pledged to peak its
emissions between 2020 and 2025,” she said.

“The coal chemical industry and transportation are two of the largest
contributors to this greenhouse effect in South Africa due to their
expulsion of air pollutants, which makes the emergence of green technology
even more vital.”

On top of her scientific efforts, Chiyindiko is helping to bring to life a
science-themed comic book.

“There’s a new superhero in town, and she’s a scientist!” Chiyindiko said.

“The genesis of this project was aided by a Zimbabwean based graphic
designer and illustrator, Allen Zvidzai.”

Chiyindiko said highlighting black women in STEM ensures the younger
generations of women have role models to inspire them.

“This will also enable the world to recognize the obstacles that young girls
aspiring to careers in STEM face and solve them,” she said.

“As Captain Planet would always say: the power is yours!”

Having a science superhero for young black girls is needed because,
Chiyindiko says, one of the biggest challenges for her, as a woman in
chemistry, is representation.

“Women are highly under represented in positions of authority, such as
tenured faculty positions, but you will also see this reflected in STEM
cohorts and organisation,” she said.

“Racial and sexist macro-aggressions are also rampant in the sciences, and
these macro-aggressions, whether intentional or unintentional, expose hidden
biases and prejudices that generally make women of colour feel undermined.”

Chiyindiko says her middle-class family in Harare had expectations that she
would become a medical doctor, engineer, accountant or a disgrace upon the
family name.

“I am about to become a doctor, still, but not the kind my grandparents have
in mind,” said Chiyindiko, referring to completing her chemistry PhD.

Chiyindiko says she was an inquisitive child, desperate to figure out why
things worked the way they did.

“My favourite thing about my career is running experiments and observing
different textured fumes, precipitates and crystals of different colours and
even the bad smelling compounds like Ammonia,” she said.

She says that as a kid, she identified with Captain Planet and the
Planeteers.

“In my head, I was one of the Planeteers,” she said, adding this proves how
powerful edutainment is in changing the world for kids and adults too.

“I was lost in one of my usual brooding sessions and imagined how cool it
would be if I was an actual superhero,” she said.

“If you see me during one of these sessions you’d think I’m contemplating
the application of density functional theorem to metal complexation but most
of the time I’m exploring the endless bounds of my humour and hyperactive
imagination.”

Chiyindiko isn’t the only chemist from the global south looking to solve
global problems. Colombian scientist Laura Loaiza researches how to move
away from volatile and flammable components in modern batteries. — Forbes.

Emmie Chiyindiko is a chemistry Ph.D. student at South Africa’s University
of Free State

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