Bryan has paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

In our efforts to combat plastic pollution, my colleagues and I unveiled groundbreaking research conducted at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in partnership with bioplastic producer, Eastman, now published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. Our work, “Foaming enables material-efficient bioplastic products with minimal persistence” with co-authors Yanchen Sun, Kali Pate, Rahul Shankar, Mounir Izallalen, Sharmistha Mazumder, Steven T. Perri, Katelyn R. Houston, Brian Edwards, Jos de Wit, Christopher M. Reddy, and Collin P. Ward, evaluated the lifetimes of several cellulose diacetate, a biodegradable bioplastic, and demonstrated that foaming can have an outsized positive impact on reducing environmental lifetimes. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c05822