CSP researcher Guarav Kumar’s research Dehydra-decyclization of 2-methyltetrahydrofuran to pentadienes on boron-containing zeolites was selected as an Editor’s Choice article in the journal Green Chemistry. 1,3-Pentadiene (piperylene) is an important monomer... read more →
CSP graduate student Derek Batiste recently lead and published research on the efficient polymerization of methyl-ε- caprolactone mixtures to access sustainable aliphatic polyesters in ACS Macromolecules. Get a brief... 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 →
Research lead by CSP graduate student, Max Klemes and the Dichtel group, was recently highlighted as part of C&E News Magazine’s 2019 Chemistry Research of the Year showcase. Klemes’ publication,... 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 →
New CSP research from the Reineke group demonstrates a versatile, sustainable, and scalable synthetic strategy to design a class of natural phenolic acrylates for sustainable photocured formulations with potential translation... read more →
The CSP has partnered with UMN librarians Meghan Lafferty, Shannon Farrell, Carolyn Bishoff, and Lisa Johnston to create a new direction for data practices. The center is piloting a way... read more →