Validation & Scale-up of Bio-Materials & Recycling Technologies

The US Northeast has historically been a manufacturing center for raw materials processing, textiles, and agriculture. Today, through biomanufacturing, the region is poised to reinvigorate this industry and offer solutions to many of the problematic results of petrochemical dependency that has led to pollutants in our landfills, water systems, and even food. Advances include microbial-derived surfactants for interfacial solutions and/or vaccine stabilization, bioplastics coupled with biological catalysts to degrade plastics (bio-recycling), organic acids (e.g., adipic acid, succinic acid, amino acids), chemical building blocks, bio-grown materials (shaped articles, foams, wood substitutes, insulation), cellulose nanofibers from bacteria, biopesticide ingredients, and natural products and monomers for polymer synthesis. , all of which enables the manufacturing of bio-based offsets to advanced functional materials, chemicals, and additives.