Renewable Materials

Areas of Research Focus

Environmental impact of solar technologies (scarcity, toxicity, and energy payback)		Valorization of plastic waste by recycling and/or upcycling technologies
Renewable energy system design		Development/evaluation of processes relevant to environmental biotechnology
Circular economy		Development of parallel detection tools
Sustainable material manufacturing and green chemistry		Understanding how complex microbial communities work
Life cycle assessment and techno-economic assessment of new technology		The occurrence and fate of emerging contaminants in engineered and natural systems
The identification of the microorganisms and functional genes involved in biodegradation of traditional, problematic contaminants		The application of molecular methods to environmental microbiology, including quantitative PCR, TRFLP, stable isotope probing, LAMP, high throughput sequencing
Development of sustainable plastic processing and manufacturing		Characterization of the behavior of emerging airborne and waterborne plastic wastes including microplastics and organic compounds throughout the stream of plastic manufacture

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