Creating a high-quality compostable plastic using corn is the goal of Daniel Krajovic, graduate student at the University of Minnesota working in the Hillmyer Research Group. He’s taken on a lab project that studies the potential to combine corn kernels with wood lignin. The work is funded by the Minnesota Corn Research & Promotion Council.
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Corn kernels/wood lignin could make strong/compostable plastic
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About the cover: Daniel Krajovic, graduate student at the University of Minnesota working in the Hillmyer Research Group, is showing a corn/wood lignin PLA tensile specimen. Photo used by permission of John Beumer, senior designer for the Center for Sustainable Polymers.
Daniel Krajovic, graduate student at the University of Minnesota working in the Hillmyer Research Group, is sketching out the microscopic structure of his polymers. Photo by John Beumer, senior designer for the Center for Sustainable Polymers.
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