IUCRC Phase II: North Dakota State University: Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites [CB2]

爱荷华州州立大学（ISU）、格鲁吉亚大学（UGA）、华盛顿州立大学（WSU）和北达科他州州立大学（NDSU）的生物塑料和生物复合材料中心（CB 2）寻求开发和建立一个专注于生物塑料和生物复合材料的工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）。CB 2的使命是发展与生物塑料和生物复合材料相关的基础知识，向工业界传播基于研究的发现，以促进可持续发展，并教育未来的科学家和工程师。因此，工业界有兴趣利用研究工作来加速这些新型塑料和复合材料的标准化材料和加工数据的系统开发。该中心专注于可持续制造领域的就业发展，以及农业和木本作物向生物基材料的转化，这些材料有助于在美国创造就业机会。该中心还努力通过本科生和研究生参与可持续材料的研究来支持教育和多样性。CB 2的目标是提高生物塑料和生物复合材料的合成，加工，性能和复合的基础知识，为工业合作伙伴开发可靠的材料特性数据，并支持可再生材料的大规模工业实施。该中心的愿景是开发知识，促进从可再生原料生产一系列高价值产品，包括塑料，涂料，粘合剂和复合材料。 这些材料与当前的工业制造系统兼容，并促进农村发展和国家增长。第二阶段的目标有四个方面：1）扩大知识和发展可持续材料的回收和寿命终止处理的科学，特别是当它们与石化塑料混合时; 2）通过吸引表示需要回收和寿命终止处理的新公司来扩大成员; 3）发展关于可持续材料的基本知识; 4）培养学生具备行业所需的知识和技能，以便加入劳动大军。研究团队包括聚合物加工、聚合物化学、材料科学和作物利用领域的专家。WSU的研究重点是利用行业相关的技术平台开发生物基复合材料，涂料和粘合剂，以及用于各种行业应用的聚合物，以及回收生物基复合材料。 NDSU的研究重点是生物基纤维的使用，生物质衍生的新型单体，生物基聚合物在涂料，粘合剂和复合材料中的应用，以及包装应用材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (CB2) at Iowa State University (ISU), University of Georgia (UGA), Washington State University (WSU), and North Dakota State University (NDSU) seeks to develop and build on an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) that focuses on bioplastics and biocomposites. The mission of CB2 is to develop fundamental knowledge related to bioplastics and biocomposites, to disseminate research-based findings to industry to promote sustainability, and to educate future scientists and engineers. As such, there is an expressed industrial interest in leveraging research efforts to accelerate systematic development of standardized material and processing data for these novel plastics and composites. The center focusses on the development of jobs in the area of sustainable manufacturing and the conversion of agricultural and woody crops to bio-based materials that contribute to job creation in the United States. The center also strives to support education and diversity through engagement of undergraduate and graduate students in research on sustainable materials. The goal of CB2 is to improve the basic knowledge of synthesis, processing, properties, and compounding of bioplastic and biocomposite materials, to develop reliable materials characteristics data for industrial partners, and to support large-scale industrial implementation of renewable materials. The vision of the center is to develop knowledge that will facilitate the production of an array of high-value products, including plastics, coatings, adhesives, and composites, from renewable feedstocks. The materials are compatible with current industrial manufacturing systems and promote rural development as well as national growth. The goals of the Phase II are fourfold: 1) expand the knowledge and develop the science for recycling and end of life treatment of sustainable materials, in particular as they are mixed with petrochemical plastics; 2) expand membership by engaging new companies that have expressed a need for recycling and end of life treatment; 3) develop fundamental knowledge on sustainable materials; 4) prepare students to join the workforce equipped with the knowledge and skills required by industry. The team of researchers includes experts in the fields of polymer processing, polymer chemistry, materials science, and crop utilization. WSU’s research focuses on utilizing industry-relevant technology platforms to develop bio-based composites, coatings and adhesives, and polymers for various industry applications, as well as to recycle bio-based composite materials. NDSU’s research focuses on use of biobased fibers, novel monomers derived from biomass, biobased polymers with applications in coatings, adhesives and composites, and materials for packaging applications.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.