Hand with Foam (IMAGE)

University of Minnesota

Hand with Foam

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One success story of the Center for Sustainable Polymers is how researchers used microbial engineering to develop an inexpensive pathway to sustainably make commercially viable flexible foams usable in everyday items like chair seats and pillows. They also demonstrated that the foam could be chemically recycled back to its starting material.

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John Beumer, University of Minnesota

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