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BATON ROUGE – LSU researchers have created a new, low-cost way to break down plastic, a potential breakthrough that could save billions of dollars and eliminate billions of tons of plastic pollution.
In 2015, LSU Chemical Engineering Adjunct Lecturer Jerry Forest’s paper on conduct of operations, “Walk the Line,” was published in peer-reviewed journal Process Safety Progress. That same year, it won Best Paper at the Process Plant Safety Symposium (PPSS) of the Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS). Both of these honors came on the heels of “Walk the Line” winning the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care Initiative of the Year honor in 2014.
November 14, 2024 BATON ROUGE, LA – Microplastics are sub-millimeter-sized plastic fragments, similar to or smaller than the thickness of a human hair, that present a relatively new and increasingly prevalent type of environmental pollutant. In fact, they have been widely detected in the air we breathe and at altitudes where clouds form.
October 23, 2024 BATON ROUGE, LA – Computer chips are virtually as essential to our daily lives as food, water, and air. They’re in everything from automobiles to smartphones, and yet there exists technological and manufacturing bottlenecks that continue to plague their production and improvement.
October 15, 2024 BATON ROUGE, LA – Monsuru Dauda, a third-year Ph.D. student in the LSU Cain Department of Chemical Engineering, has had a very busy 2024. He’s co-authored five research conference papers and been lead author on another two, the most recent being published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. This latest publication brings his total for the year to seven.
October 3, 2024 BATON ROUGE, LA – A team of LSU Chemical Engineering researchers is exploring a cheaper, alternative means of producing “clean hydrogen,” and its doing it, in part, through the use of formate salts widely used in de-icing.
September 27, 2024 BATON ROUGE, LA – Bottlebrush polymers (BBPs) are probably not something the average person considers in their daily routine, and yet, they have potential application in improving things widely used like contact lenses and the recyclability of plastics. The challenge is understanding and controlling the variable structures of these BBPs to create new properties and functions that would have the aforementioned results.