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

该奖项支持美印计划访问：利用低成本基材生产可生物降解聚合物的国际合作项目。堪萨斯州立大学的美国PI Alexander Mathews将前往位于德里的印度理工学院（IIT），与合作者、生物化学工程和生物技术教授T.R. Sreekrishnan进行磋商。他们提议研究如何从可再生资源（如农作物、作物残留物和食物废物）中开发可生物降解的塑料和聚合物。他们将与高级研究人员举行一系列讨论，以制定利用可再生资源过程的研究规程。讨论的结果是制定一个包括交换学生在内的多年合作研究计划。研究范围：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。它将发起国际合作研究，以帮助保护不可再生能源，并最大限度地减少使用不可生物降解的合成塑料和聚合物对环境的污染。该项目将包括研究生和本科生在项目讨论，探究和发现的过程。结果将通过在两国的演讲和出版物传播给工业界和政府机构。

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.