From water bottles and food containers to toys and tubing, many modern materials are made of plastics. And while we produce about 110 million tons per year of synthetic polymers like polyethylene and ...

Chemical Projects Scale Up: How to Go from Laboratory to Commercialcovers the chemical engineering steps necessary for taking a laboratory development into the commercial world. The book includes the ...

Research headed by Antonia Statt, professor in Engineering, provides insight into the different variabilities of stress-responsive polymers and an opportunity for students to gain research experience.

A persistent challenge in research and development (R&D) is the "Valley of Death", which illustrates the critical gap between basic research and the commercialization of a product or technology. This ...