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Chris Buurma

Institution
Battelle Columbus

Projects

SynThetic BiolOgy Driven Approach to Repurpose PolyaMides (STORM)

Lead Institution
Battelle Memorial Institute
Principal Investigator
Kate Kucharzyk
Project type
Exploratory Research
Nylon-6 (PA6) is a polyamide polymer abundant in clothing, ropes, fabrics, and automobile parts. The U.S. annual consumption of PA6 is ~0.5 million metric tons with manufacturing yields of 2.9 kg of…