CSP Director Hillmyer joined an interdisciplinary research team focused on developing innovative solutions to supply health care workers with masks to help protect them from Covid-19. The team of researchers... read more →
The NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers (CSP) recognizes that the field of sustainable polymers is a very active, broad, and diverse area of research. Moreover, there are social, industrial, and... read more →
In the Minnesota Corn Growers Association’s new eBook The Expanding Role of Corn, CSP Investigators Frank Bates and Chris Ellison discuss how the renewable properties of PLA plastics, found in... read more →
The University of Minnesota announced today that it has been awarded a $20 million grant renewal from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research in the NSF Center for Sustainable... read more →
Collaborators Russell K. W. Spencer and Professor Mark W. Matsen from the University of Waterloo recently published an article on field-theoretic simulations of bottlebrush copolymers in The Journal of Chemical Physics.... read more →
CSP investigator Geoff Coates, researcher James Eagan, and investigator Anne LaPointe, are featured in the Cornell Chronicles in an article titled, Polymer additive could revolutionize plastics recycling, for their work... read more →
Collaborative CSP research by Coates, LaPointe, Bates, and Macosko groups has been published in Science. This research focuses on compatibilizing the recycling process for two of the most common plastics. Polyethylene... read more →