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INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
Ramani Narayan
http://www.msu.edu/user/narayan
email:
[email protected]
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TECHNOLOGY
R&D
MBI
BioMaterials Research Group
(Narayan & Staff)
Engineering & Design of PLA
polymers for Industrial
applications
Modified Biodegradable,
thermoplastic Starch Esters for
molding and paper coatings
Michigan State University
Narayan Research Group
Graduate & Undergraduates
Thermoplastic Starch-PCL alloys for
film applications
Family of VOC-free waterborne
adhesives that are biodegradable and
non-interfering in repulping operations
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BUSINESS
Commercialization
CARGILL
(Now Cargill-Dow LLC)
Contract R&D
EVERCORN INC.
JV company of GRT
and Japan Corn Starch
BIOPLASTICS INC...
Start-up Business
LIONS ADHESIVES INC...
Start-up Business
Commercialization of agricultural feedstocks based technologies
Biodegradable Materials
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Biodegradable Starch Esters
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Composting of
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YNTHETIX
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ADVANCED POLYMERS FROM PLANET EARTH
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About ECOSYNTHETIX
WHO WE ARE
EcoSynthetix (formerly Lions Adhesives, Inc.) is a polymer supplier that has developed a
new technology by building on the strengths of bio-based materials and combining them
through chemical synthesis. EcoSynthetix has developed a process for making polymerizable
sugars, referred to as "sugar macromer." The sugar macromer is copolymerized with vinyl
monomers to produce new sugar-vinyl copolymers. This new technology incorporates
repulpability, biodegradability, bio-based content, and low VOC's, while retaining the high
performance associated with synthetic polymers. EcoSynthetix is currently scaling up its
proprietary sugar macromer and copolymer production technologies with commercial-level
production slated for the year 2000.
OUR VISION
was to find a process for inserting sugar molecules into the polymeric molecules that
make up adhesives and many other products...resulting in more environmentally friendly
polymers.
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OUR RESULTS : Sugar-Acrylic Copolymer Adhesives
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A new class of copolymers designed not to interfere in
paper recycling operations
High solids water borne dispersions
Resins meet requirements for label adhesives
Wide range of glass transition temperature and
chemical functionality
High sugar compositions were demonstrated to be
biodegradable under composting conditions
Unique polymer composition serves as trigger to switch
off "sticky" properties in paper recycling
This is only one example of a single application of this
innovative technology and its ability to meet the needs
of ** industry seeking solutions. Email or contact us
(517-336-4666) for further information
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Design and manufacture bioplastic resin using annually
renewable resources -- Nature’s polymers and fibers
FOR
use in film, molded products, and composites applications
Using
REACTIVE EXTRUSION PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY
polymerization/copolymerization & compounding
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY
SOWING ENTREPRENEURIAL SEEDS
1939 -- William Hewlett & David Packard trnasformed their thesis to start
manufacturing measuring equipment and scientific instruments in Packard’s
garage
1982 -- Professor James Clark and six others started Silicon Graphics
1984 -- Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner, husband & wife Stanford
staffers founded Cisco Systems -- Number one network gear supplier
1995 -- Jerry Yang & David Filo, electrical engineering graduate students
were bored to tears with their Ph.D thesis. They began almost mindlessly
making lists of their favorite Web sites. Rather than crack down on the
digital goofing, the engineering school cut them slack. They operated out of
a grungy campus trailer. Two years later, they were worth $100 million
apiece -- Guess which Internet company???
YAHOO.COM
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY
SOWING ENTREPRENEURIAL SEEDS
“It takes more than a great idea/innovation to
grow a great business”
Engineering School’s Stanford Technology Ventures Program
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Three semester sequence designed for seniors and
coterminal master’s degree students
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Classroom instruction in start-up business basics
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a summer co-op experience at a high-tech start-up firm
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a “debriefing” course in which students examine their
entrepreneurial experiences through presentations and
discussion
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15-20 students
Tom Byers; [email protected]
http://www.stanford.edu/group.stvp
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AN INNOVATION ENGINE FOR LUCENT
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A technology that promises the efficient delivery of high quality
speech and music over the Internet
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An electron beam lithography system, four generations ahead of
technology currently used to manufacture computer chips, that can
make transistors and integrated circuits with features just 250 atoms
wide
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Plastic transistors that are far less expensive to make than current
silicon transistors and could be used in products such as flexible
computer screens and credit card sized smart cards
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Experimental “bow-tie” micro-lasers so small that hundreds would fit
on the head of a pin and emit highly directional beams of light with
more than 1,000 times the power of conventional , disk-shaped microlasers. These high-power micro-lasers could increase the speed of
voice, video, Internet, and other data transmissions via existing fiberoptic networks or could become the basis of entirely new architecture
for local-area networks
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C&EN November 30, 1998
SIMPLE INNOVATION IS GOLDEN TOO!!!
A SIMPLE PLASTIC TOY MADE MILLIONS!! FOR
THE ENTREPREUNER & HELPED FLEDGLING
POLYETHYLENE RESIN PRODUCER TO GET
ADDITIONAL MARKETS FOR THEIR PE RESIN
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SIMPLE INNOVATION IS GOLDEN TOO!!!
A SIMPLE PLASTIC TOY MADE MILLIONS!! FOR
THE ENTREPREUNER & HELPED FLEDGLING
POLYETHYLENE RESIN PRODUCER TO GET
ADDITIONAL MARKETS FOR THEIR PE RESIN
“THE HULA HOOP”
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Every student in the program ought to
start a company
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The trend is toward an entrepreneurial global economy where
engineers need to be trained to “innovate” and learn business
skills, team work, communication
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increase wealth for themselves, their company(their
own or other), others (creating new jobs/employment)
and their country (growing the economy)
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DRIVERS FOR MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY SHIFTS
Traditional
Synthetics
Materials
Value
in Use
Wool
Cotton
Feathers
Silk
Aramids
Environmentally Friendly
Products/Processes
Lycra
Vinyl
Polyester
Nylon
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Paradigm shift
SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGY
Rayon
Fur
Time
•Natural
Ingredients
•Labor Intensive
•Attractive
Aesthetics
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•Cheap petroleum
•Recyclable
•Ease of
manufacture
•Biodegradable
•Low labor input
•Excellent
functionality
•Non-polluting
•Energy efficient
•Tailored Functionality
•Renewable resource based