SUSTAINABLE MANUFACTURING

UD and LSU collaborate to advance manufacturing technologies that employ carbon dioxide and renewable energy

Jan. 6, 2022

Reducing the world’s reliance on petroleum and natural gas is a worthy goal, one that could help us achieve a smaller carbon footprint. It will, however, mean rethinking how we create many of the products in our everyday lives.

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TACKLING THE PLASTICS PROBLEM

Finding a solution to plastics pollution that will work in the lab and at scale in the real world will take a diverse team of innovative individuals with expertise and wide adoption by the public.

Collaborative project aims to find sustainable ways to create, destroy plastics

Jan. 6, 2022

Finding a solution to plastics pollution that will work in the lab and in the real world will take a diverse team of innovative individuals with expertise that transcends the incredible talent found at the University of Delaware.

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RESEARCHERS WITH INFLUENCE

From left to right, UD Professors Wendy Smith, Rodrigo Vargas and Yushan Yan have been named to Clarivate’s 2021 global list of Highly Cited Researchers for the significant impact they are having on their academic fields, as evidenced by the rate at which their work is being cited by their peers.

UD professors named to global list

Nov. 16, 2021

Three professors from the University of Delaware — Wendy Smith, Rodrigo Vargas and Yushan Yan — have been recognized as Highly Cited Researchers for 2021 by Clarivate, a global analytics company.

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PROBING THE POWERS OF ZEOLITES

The University of Delaware’s Mark LaFollette, a doctoral student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD, displays a large structural model of a zeolite. The honeycomb-like structure allows zeolites to act as a “molecular sieve.”

UD’s LaFollette receives DOE Graduate Student Research Award

July 27, 2021

Researchers from the University of Delaware’s Center for Plastics Innovation (CPI) have developed a direct method to convert single-use plastic waste — plastic bags, yogurt containers, plastic bottles and bottle caps, packaging and more — to ready-to-use molecules for jet fuels, diesel and lubricants.

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COMBATING PLASTICS WASTE

In the United States, less than 9% of plastic waste is recycled.

UD researchers report possible solutions for hard-to-recycle plastics

April 21, 2021

Researchers from the University of Delaware’s Center for Plastics Innovation (CPI) have developed a direct method to convert single-use plastic waste — plastic bags, yogurt containers, plastic bottles and bottle caps, packaging and more — to ready-to-use molecules for jet fuels, diesel and lubricants.

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