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The NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers (CSP) integrates sustainability issues that focus on the science and technology of polymeric materials into research, education, and public outreach initiatives.
CSP News
CSP students receive NSF-GRFP awards
Congratulations to current and former CSP students who have received awards from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program!... read more →
March 31, 2020
Professor Marc Hillmyer is DSM 2020 Bright Science Award Recipient
Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, has awarded Professor Marc Hillmyer the 2020 Bright... read more →
March 18, 2020
Sustainable Polymer Framework Developed
The NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers (CSP) recognizes that the field of sustainable polymers is a very active, broad, and... read more →
March 9, 2020
Professor Geoffrey Coates honored by ACS
CSP investigator Geoffrey Coates has been awarded the 2020 Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from... read more →
February 7, 2020
Dr. Alice Chang receives Beckman Fellowship
Dr. Alice Chang (Bates Group) has received an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences for 2019-20 for her... read more →
January 21, 2020
CSP Researchers Awarded PPG Fellowship
Two CSP Graduate Students, Derek Batiste (Hillmyer group) and Hussnain Sajjad (Reineke and Tolman groups), have been awarded spring 2020... read more →
January 21, 2020
CSP Highlighted for Chemical Recycling
Principal Investigator Marc Hillmyer and the NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers are highlighted in the latest edition of Materials in... read more →
January 17, 2020
CSP featured in MN Corn Growers’ eBook
In the Minnesota Corn Growers Association’s new eBook The Expanding Role of Corn, CSP Investigators Frank Bates and Chris Ellison... read more →
January 3, 2020
2019 Chemistry Research of the Year
Research lead by CSP graduate student, Max Klemes and the Dichtel group, was recently highlighted as part of C&E News... read more →
December 10, 2019
Why do sustainable polymers matter?
Sustainable polymers aim to address the environmental challenges that are inherently associated with traditional (petroleum-based) plastics, while maintaining the outstanding properties these materials bring to our everyday lives.
Sustainable Polymers 101
Big Question: Can we make plastics sustainable?
video source: University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment and NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers
video source: University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment and NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers
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