Investigator Paul Dauenhauer spoke about Minnesota’s role in developing renewable chemicals from biomass as part of the University of Minnesota’s Curiosity Drives Progress Lecture Series.
A recent study in Nature Climate Change calculated the life cycle emissions of different types of plastics and looked for ways to lower their total greenhouse gas emissions. CSP Investigators Hillmyer... read more →
Here’s the issue with plastics—they’re strong, durable, and convenient. But because of those qualities, plastics are ubiquitous and hang around forever. At the NSF Center for Sustainable Polymers (CSP), researchers... read more →
Professor Emeritus and founding CSP member Chris Macosko visited the University of Guadalajara last week. As part of the Amundson lecture series he was interviewed about sustainable polymers. Sustainable plastic has... read more →
CSP investigators and researchers are attending the ACS National Meeting & Expo Chemistry for New Frontiers in Orlando, FL from March 31 - April 4, 2019. Find CSP presenters talking... read more →
CSP Investigator Chris Ellison will be speaking at Wayzata Schools’ Young Scientists Roundtable (YSR) program on April 9th. Chris's talk, "Sustainability of Plastics," will focus on the broad, complex topic... read more →
CSP Director Marc Hillmyer was interviewed by German radio station NDR on September 18, 2018 for the story " A plastic that dissolves on command." Read the English transcript or... read more →