US-India Planning Visit: International Cooperative Program on the Producation of Biodegradable Polymers from Low-Cost Substrates

美印计划访问：低成本基材生产可生物降解聚合物国际合作项目

• 批准号: 0528734
• 负责人: Alexander Mathews
• 金额: $ 0.52万
• 依托单位: Kansas State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0528734&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; India; Planning; Visit; International

0528734MathewsDescription: This award supports the U.S.-India Planning Visit: International Cooperative Program on the Production of Biodegradable Polymers from Low-Cost Substrates. US PI Alexander Mathews of Kansas State University will travel to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi to confer with collaborator T.R. Sreekrishnan, a professor of biochemical engineering and biotechnology. They propose to investigate ways to develop biodegradable plastics and polymers from renewable resources such as agricultural crops, crop residues, and wastes from food. They will hold a series of discussions with senior researchers to develop research protocols on processes for the utilization of renewable resources. The discussions will result in the development of a multi-year program of cooperative research including the exchange of students. Scope: This research deals with an important scientific problem and has potential for broad social and educational impacts. It will initiate international collaborative research that can help conserve nonrenewable energy resources, and minimize environmental pollution from the use of synthetic plastics and polymers that are not biodegradable. The project will include graduate and undergraduate students in the project discussion, inquiry and discovery process. Results will be disseminated to industries and government agencies through presentations and publications in both countries.

0528734Mathews描述：该奖项支持美国-印度计划访问：利用低成本基材生产可生物降解聚合物的国际合作计划。 堪萨斯州立大学的美国 PI Alexander Mathews 将前往德里的印度理工学院 (IIT) 与合作者 T.R. Sreekrishnan，生化工程和生物技术教授。 他们提议研究如何利用农作物、农作物残留物和食品废物等可再生资源开发可生物降解的塑料和聚合物。 他们将与高级研究人员进行一系列讨论，以制定可再生资源利用过程的研究方案。 讨论将导致制定一项多年合作研究计划，包括学生交换。 范围：这项研究涉及一个重要的科学问题，具有广泛的社会和教育影响的潜力。 它将启动国际合作研究，帮助节约不可再生能源，并最大限度地减少使用不可生物降解的合成塑料和聚合物造成的环境污染。 该项目将包括研究生和本科生参与项目讨论、探究和发现过程。 结果将通过两国的演示和出版物传播给行业和政府机构。