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

0528734 Mathews描述：该奖项支持美国-印度规划访问：从低成本基质生产生物降解聚合物的国际合作计划。 来自堪萨斯州立大学的美国PI亚历山大马修斯将前往德里的印度理工学院（IIT）与合作者T. R.生物化学工程和生物技术教授Sreekrishnan说。 他们建议研究如何从可再生资源中开发可生物降解的塑料和聚合物，如农作物，农作物残留物和食品废物。 他们将与高级研究人员进行一系列讨论，以制定可再生资源利用过程的研究协议。 讨论将导致制定一项多年合作研究计划，包括交换学生。 范围：这项研究涉及一个重要的科学问题，并具有广泛的社会和教育影响的潜力。 它将发起国际合作研究，以帮助保护不可再生能源，并尽量减少使用不可生物降解的合成塑料和聚合物造成的环境污染。 该项目将包括研究生和本科生在项目讨论，调查和发现过程。 研究结果将通过在这两个国家的介绍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.