Wednesday, September 29, 2010

More heat-tolerant corn-derived plastics

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist William J. Orts and a team of collaborators from Lapol, LLC, hope to derive a corn based plastics that is more heat-tolerant. By boosting the bioplasticcs' heat tolerance, the collaboration, under way since 2007, may broaden the range of applications for which corn-derived plastics could be used as an alternative to petroleum-based plastics.

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