New Biobased Building Blocks
Description
Greening the plastic world: how to do?
Most nowadays developments in biobased materials show an imbalance between accessibility and functionality. New biobased building blocks that are evident from nature are explored heavily to make them fit for material applications - a challenge that often compares to making a weak horse strong. From the other side, strong desire to green blockbuster building blocks such as terephtalic acid and adipic acid with proven track record in materials, often ask for exhautive synthesis efforts because there is no evident or nereby link to renewable sources.
At DSM, we have been searching for a more subtle balance between synthesis (accessibility) and application (functionality). Would it be possible to come up with newly designed biobased building blocks that at the same time are connected to renewable sources via a few (surprising) (bio)chemical steps ("route scouting"), while contributing to performance or even an outperformance in materials?
After a few years of investigation along the value chain of [synthesis - polymerization - material application development], we indeed identified hot spots for such new biobased materials adding funtionality in their applications.
This project is a balancing act between 2 historically splitted worlds: "innovative synthesis" pairing up with "renewable polymers and their plastics".
Lecture
Possibility for asking questions
Informal meeting and networking
Speaker(s)
Stefaan de Wildeman
Senior Scientist
DSM Innovative Synthesis
Location
Chemelot Campus, Gate 2 Chemelot
Conference Room 13
Organiser
Region Limburg South
Region Maastricht
Chemelot BV
Name and contact details for information
Chemelot B.V. Klaas Bos + 31 (0)6 10 91 81 96
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