US-India Planning Visit: International Cooperative Program on the Producation of Biodegradable Polymers from Low-Cost Substrates

0528734数学描述：该奖项支持美国-印度计划访问：从低成本基质生产可生物降解聚合物的国际合作计划。堪萨斯州立大学的美国人Pi Alexander Mathews将前往德里的印度理工学院(IIT)，与合作者生化工程和生物技术教授T.R.Sreekrishnan进行磋商。他们建议研究从农作物、作物残渣和食品废弃物等可再生资源中开发可生物降解塑料和聚合物的方法。他们将与高级研究人员举行一系列讨论，以制定关于可再生资源利用过程的研究协议。这些讨论将导致制定一个包括交换学生在内的多年合作研究方案。范围：这项研究涉及一个重要的科学问题，并有可能产生广泛的社会和教育影响。它将启动国际合作研究，帮助节约不可再生能源，并将使用合成塑料和不可生物降解的聚合物造成的环境污染降至最低。该项目将包括研究生和本科生参与项目讨论、询问和发现过程。结果将通过两国的演讲和出版物向行业和政府机构传播。

0528734MathewsDescription: This award supports the U.S.-India Planning Visit: International Cooperative Program on the Production of Biodegradable Polymers from Low-Cost Substrates. US PI Alexander Mathews of Kansas State University will travel to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi to confer with collaborator T.R. Sreekrishnan, a professor of biochemical engineering and biotechnology. They propose to investigate ways to develop biodegradable plastics and polymers from renewable resources such as agricultural crops, crop residues, and wastes from food. They will hold a series of discussions with senior researchers to develop research protocols on processes for the utilization of renewable resources. The discussions will result in the development of a multi-year program of cooperative research including the exchange of students. Scope: This research deals with an important scientific problem and has potential for broad social and educational impacts. It will initiate international collaborative research that can help conserve nonrenewable energy resources, and minimize environmental pollution from the use of synthetic plastics and polymers that are not biodegradable. The project will include graduate and undergraduate students in the project discussion, inquiry and discovery process. Results will be disseminated to industries and government agencies through presentations and publications in both countries.