Chemistry for the greater good Daniel Howell, Iowa State University graduate, worked with Wenyu Huang on iCOUP research during his time at Iowa State. His story was featured by Iowa State news.
Could cars one day run on plastic waste? Ames National Lab researchers aim to find out Ames National Laboratory scientists have developed a one-step process that uses a catalyst to break down the polymers that make up plastic and convert them into diesel.
New process tackles pollution on two fronts: plastic waste and fuel emissions What if we could help the global plastic waste problem and the transportation industry with the same technology? A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames National Laboratory are doing just that. The team, led by Aaron Sadow and Wenyu Huang, recently developed a chemical conversion process that makes diesel out of plastic waste.
iCOUP Deputy Director elected as AAAS Fellow Massimiliano “Max” Delferro, iCOUP deputy director and Argonne National Laboratory scientist, was elected as a 2024 AAAS Fellow.
ICOUP Postdoc Sam Hunt featured in Argonne Science 101 Postdoc researcher Sam Hunt, who is supported by the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) is featured in one of Argonne National Laboratory's Science 101 videos discussing circular economy.
Aaron Sadow awarded the David C. Henderson Chair in Chemistry at Iowa State University Aaron Sadow, professor of chemistry at Iowa State University and scientist at Ames National Laboratory was recently awarded the David C. Henderson Chair in Chemistry.
iCOUP Welcomes New Partners Three professors have recently joined our iCOUP EFRC research team. Their expertise will synergistically combine with existing iCOUP research projects to develop new ways to upcycle discarded plastics.
iCoup Deputy Director featured in Chicago Tribune Massimiliano Delferro, deputy director of iCOUP and scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, was featured in an article published in the Chicago Tribune.
High interest for iCOUP research on polyolefins to alkylaromatics The iCOUP paper, "Bifunctional tandem catalytic upcycling of polyethylene to surfactant-range alkylaromatics," published in the journal Chem, has ten mentions across three different URLs.
Our plastic waste can be used as raw material for detergents, thanks to an improved catalytic method But, for researchers at UC Santa Barbara, one person’s single-use packaging is another person’s useful raw material. In a paper published in the journal Chem, they have reimagined the value of single-use plastics, with improvements to an innovative process that can turn polyolefins, the most common type of polymer in single-use packaging, into valuable alkylaromatics — molecules that underlie surfactants, the active components of detergents and other useful chemicals.