"Catalyzing Green Chemistry: Sustainable Routes to New Materials"

11/06/08

Contributed by Maria Russell

The Chemistry Seminar series presents invited speaker Anna Cherian. All are welcome to attend the seminar on Tuesday, November 11, at 4:30 p.m. in CNS 333.

Lecture Synopsis

Growing demand for high performance materials, decreasing petroleum supplies, and waste disposal problems have created a market for biodegradable and biorenewable materials. Through Novomer's innovative catalyst technology CO2, an abundant greenhouse gas, is used as a feedstock in the manufacturing of aliphatic polycarbonates, contributing up to 50% of the mass of the polymer.

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