Green Chemistry Developed at UNH's Nanostructured Polymers Research Center

By Erika Mantz, Media Relations
September 17, 2008

Courtesy UNH Photo Services

UNH recently entered into a licensing agreement with Itaconix LLC to commercialize green chemistry developed by the university's Nanostructured Polymers Research Center. The license gives Itaconix full rights to a process for creating a new generation of environmentally friendly polymers derived from renewable resources.

The business plan for this green chemistry won graduate student Ming Cao second place in this year's Paul J. Holloway Business Prize Competition at UNH.

Pictured in back: Taylor Eighmy, UNH interim vice president for research, and Robert Dalton, director of UNH’s Office of Research Partnerships & Commercialization. Front from left to right: Yvon Durant, associate research professor in material sciences and Itaconix cofounder; Paul Holloway, Ming Cao; UNH President Mark Huddleston; Anna Grace Holloway; John Shaw, president of Kensington Research and cofounder of Itaconix; and Anne DeCossy.

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