http://blog.lib.umn.edu/itcomm/discover/chemistry/ Hundreds of questions have been submitted to the University of Minnesota's Driven to Discover Web site. Here, faculty and staff from the Institute of Technology answer your "single greatest questions." en Copyright 2008 Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:45:30 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33.uthink http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Associate professor of chemistry Marc Hillmyer works on several collaborative efforts at the University of Minnesota aimed at developing new "natural" plastics that are biodegradable, durable, and inexpensive. Many of these materials, such as polylactide (PLA), are derived from biorenewable resources such as plain old cornstarch.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/itcomm/discover/2007/01/does_plastic_really_last_forev.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/itcomm/discover/2007/01/does_plastic_really_last_forev.html Chemistry Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:45:30 -0600