Name: High performing monomers and polymers from plant oils
Description: Professor Andriy Voronov is finding strategies to make chemicals from renewable feedstock with lower environmental impact.

We often think of fossils fuels as a source of energy, but one of the key uses of fossil fuels is as a starting point for the synthesis of new chemical compounds. These range from plastics to pharmaceutical products. In recent years, there has been a push to move to more sustainable chemical feedstocks. Professor Andriy Voronov at North Dakota […]