CapturePhos - Next generation material for O2 barriers and scavenging application

针对社会上新出现的问题开发新技术是科学家和工程师的一项关键任务。建立可持续的环境和健康的经济对日常生活至关重要，这包括遵循“减少、再利用和再循环”的“3R”。可持续生活的“减少”部分还必须包括减少食物浪费，而食物腐败是其中的一个主要部分，在这方面，延长我们食物的保质期的能力是一个关键的议程项目。该提案中概述的项目是西方大学和索尔维集团(Cytec-Solvay)之间的协同合作伙伴关系，这两家公司正在结合他们的专业知识，产生一种新的食品包装方法，旨在对食品储存产生戏剧性的积极影响。十多年来，这一领域没有任何新的创新。通过利用西方研究人员新开发的一些聚合物化学，我们预计将在这一领域取得重大进展。我们预计，这项技术将很容易地转让给行业合作伙伴进行商业化。

Developing new technologies for emerging issues in society is a key mandate for scientists and engineers. Establishing a sustainable environment and healthy economy is critical to everyday life, this includes following the "3 R's" of "reduce, reuse and recycle". Part of the "reduce" component of sustainable living must also include the reduction of food waste of which spoilage is a major component, and in this context, the ability to extend the shelf life of our food is a key agenda item. The project outlined in this proposal is a synergistic partnership between Western University and Solvay Group (Cytec-Solvay)who with their combined expertise are generating a new approach to food packaging that aims to have a dramatic, positive impact on food storage. There have been no new innovations in this area in over a decade. By taking advantage of some newly developed polymer chemistry by researchers at Western, we anticipate making a major advancement in this area. We anticipate that the technology will be readily transferred to the industry partner for commercialization.