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Developing a sustainable bioeconomy based on renewable carbon is a complex challenge. We use synthetic chemistry, materials science, and green engineering principles to enable economically and environmentally sustainable industrial biorefining. This extraction of energy and carbon-based products from non-food biomass is poised to meet the energy and material needs of the citizens of the United States. However, whereas biorefining can ostensibly produce a variety of fuels at the industrial scale, there is no consistent process to produce profit-generating co-products in a manner analogous to petrochemical refining.

 

Matrix-fiber approachNew USDA Grant

The objective of this proposal is to create a renewable resin material comprised of agriculturally derived components that will enable large-format 3D printing by stereolithography. We will leverage our expertise in lignin chemistry, cellulose nanomaterials, and 3D printing by vat polymerization to create new 3D printing resins. August, 2023