UWF Smart Seminar by Karen Wooley

This lecture is part of the IHMC Evening Lecture series.
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Dr. Karen Wooley is looking for the next iteration of sustainable, biodegradable plastics. She’s looking to the insect world for part of the answer. Wooley, who holds the W. T. Doherty-Welch Chair in Chemistry and is a University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, spoke as part of the Smart Lecture series at IHMC. Her lecture shared the latest efforts to support the commercial translation of carbohydrate-derived degradable plastics to harvesting of building blocks from insect feedstocks. As scaled-up production of biomass-based biodegradable polymers grows, focus has turned to harvesting the naturally-derived building blocks from black soldier flies, to avoid competition with resources that are important to food, fuel, and construction.

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