SBIR Phase I: Manufacturing a New Sustainable Plastic

SBIR 第一阶段：制造新型可持续塑料

• 批准号: 2126127
• 负责人: Alexander Gorkovenko
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: TRGel LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2126127&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Manufacturing; New; Sustainable

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will create a sustainable film to keep food fresh in flexible packaging. This project advances the use of abundant woody biomass residue, typically drawn from residue from forestry, agriculture, or building demolition, for a new plastic film This bioplastic film will address global demand for lightweight, fresh food packaging that is environmentally sound. Vapor barrier, flexible packaging is a $30B/yr global market, and the US produces 1B tons/yr of woody biomass - ample to supply the global demand for high barrier packaging. This project makes renewable, high barrier packaging from cellulose by deconstructing it to the sugar levoglucosan and then precisely re-polymerizing a nanostructured film with intrinsic strength, flexibility, temperature resistance, and vapor barrier properties. The innovation is biobased, poly(2,3)Glucose thermoplastic with intrinsic vapor barrier properties. Without laminations, crosslinks, or additives poly(2,3)Glucose biodegradable thermoplastic can be continuously recycled or decomposed in the environment. A recent breakthrough in the cost of pyrolyzing lignocellulose to levoglucosan makes levoglucosan cost competitive with fossil fuel feed stocks.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目将制作一部可持续的电影，以使食物保持柔软的包装。该项目推进了大量的木本生物量残留物，通常是从林业，农业或建筑拆除的残留物中绘制的，用于新的塑料膜，这种生物塑料膜将解决全球对轻巧，新鲜食品包装的需求，这些食物包装在环境上是合理的。蒸气屏障，灵活的包装是一个$ 30B/年的全球市场，美国生产1B/年的木质生物量 - 足够的足够的价格，可以满足全球对高屏障包装的需求。该项目通过将纤维素解构为糖左旋葡萄糖，然后精确地重新聚合具有内在强度，柔韧性，抗温度屏障特性的纳米结构膜，从而使纤维素可再生式屏障包装从纤维素中进行更新。该创新是生物基础的，poly（2,3）葡萄糖热塑性塑料具有固有的蒸气屏障特性。在环境中，无需层压，交联或添加剂聚（2,3）葡萄糖可生物降解的热塑性塑料可以连续回收或分解。最近在左旋葡聚糖中将木质纤维素的木质纤维素成本的突破使左旋葡聚糖的成本与化石燃料饲料库存具有竞争力。这奖反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。