AMES, Iowa – The National Science Foundation (NSF) has added three years and $8.48 million to the grant supporting the NSF Engineering Research Center for Biorenewable Chemicals based at Iowa State ...

AMES, Iowa – Fuyuan Jing reached for the top shelf of his university cubicle and pulled down a box of business cards. He picked out a slick and glossy card, the company logo printed in bright blue, ...

Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, right, and Prathamesh Prabhu, a doctoral student, work to combine electro- and bio- reactions to create the building blocks of common nylons and plastics. AMES, Iowa – ...

Polymers are a key material of choice, albeit not all plastic businesses are as attractive as they once were. But we are again living in difficult economic times, and the paradigm is once again ...