CSP research by the Bates group featured on Materials360 Online in an article titled, "Glassy poly(lactide) toughened with diblock copolymer micelles."
Novomer, a company founded by CSP researcher Geoff Coates, is working with the automobile company, Ford, to convert collected CO2 pollution into recyclable foams and plastics. Read the article, "Preserving mother earth: Ford first automaker... read more →
Investigators Marc Hillmyer and Theresa Reineke and graduate student James Gallagher were awarded the 2016 TechConnect National Innovation Award for their research on Isosorbide-based Polymers. Read the full article from the... read more →
Jake Brutman (Minnesota – Hillmyer) and Mammad Nasiri (Minnesota – Reineke) were awarded two of the ten 2016–2017 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships from the Department of Chemistry.
Research by the Hillmyer, Macosko, and Bates groups on recyclable, sugar-derived foams was published in ACS MacroLetters. Read the ACS Press Release and the original publication, "Chemically Recyclable Biobased Polyurethanes."
On February 17 and March 23, 2016 approximately 22 students in an introductory environmental science class at Augsburg College performed a bioplastics experiment that is currently in development by CSP... read more →
CSP Researchers, led by Kechun Zhang, have engineered a new synthetic biopathway that can more efficiently and cost-effectively turn agricultural waste, like corn stover and orange peels, into a variety of... read more →