Units
Performance Enhanced Biopolymers
Mission
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Understanding the basic properties of wood and other materials used in conjunction with wood to improve their properties, enhance their service life, and develop new uses. |
Research in performance enhanced biopolymers focuses on three problem areas: advanced structures, advanced composites, and nano-materials. There is considerable interdependence among these three areas (i.e., improvements in structures will depend on advances in composite materials), and improving the performance of wood and woo-based structures will require basic and applied research in each of these three areas. Our research will help ensure that newly developed materials and structure components are robust, durable, cost-effective, compatible with other materials, and easily disposed of recycled at the end of their useful service lives.