Iowa State wins grant for new bioplastics center

A new center that will research bioplastics and biocomposites is getting a boost from a planning grant from the National Science Foundation.

NSF is giving start-up funding to the Biopolymers and Biocomposites Research Team at Iowa State University. The proposed center will be collaboration between Iowa State and the UMass Lowell’s department of plastics engineering.

… Full text: www.plasticsnews.com/article/20130221/NEWS/130229983/iowa-state-wins-grant-for-new-bioplastics-center

Tags: U.S. plastics industry, biobased, sustainable materials, synthesis, analysis

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Plastics News, 2013-02-21.

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Iowa State University
National Science Foundation (USA)
University of Massachusetts Lowell

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