We speak with Niklas Warlin to learn about his research into plastics made from renewable sources and how researchers are developing the monomers to build these.
Published on SelectScience® on 8 June 2022
Despite their ubiquity in the modern world and value as extremely useful materials, plastics also come with a cost – they are currently manufactured using fossil fuels, and recycling can be difficult, leading to further pollution. In order to maintain our use of plastics while reducing their environmental impact, scientists and researchers are working together to develop new kinds of plastics from renewable sources, improving their recycling potential and creating new properties.
One researcher who is working in this area is Niklas Warlin, a Ph.D. candidate at Lund University. In this interview, he discusses the challenges with the development of plastics from renewable sources and tells us about his work developing monomers and polymers as a building block for these new plastics.
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We speak with Niklas Warlin to learn about his research into plastics made from renewable sources and how researchers are developing the monomers to build these.
Published on SelectScience® on 8 June 2022
Despite their ubiquity in the modern world and value as extremely useful materials, plastics also come with a cost – they are currently manufactured using fossil fuels, and recycling can be difficult, leading to further pollution. In order to maintain our use of plastics while reducing their environmental impact, scientists and researchers are working together to develop new kinds of plastics from renewable sources, improving their recycling potential and creating new properties.
One researcher who is working in this area is Niklas Warlin, a Ph.D. candidate at Lund University. In this interview, he discusses the challenges with the development of plastics from renewable sources and tells us about his work developing monomers and polymers as a building block for these new plastics.
