Going Small to Better Make Biodegradable Polymers

The NIST microreactor plate for studying enzyme catalyzed polymerization.

Think big but go small. That’s what a team of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University were thinking when they developed an improved and “greener” method for producing biodegradable polymers. The team led by NIST materials scientist Kathryn Beers created a microscale reactor that [...]