UCLA, UCSB Share $23.7 Million Grant to Study Biologically Based Polymers
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Artist's concept illustration depicts the transformation resulting from using bio-based micro-organisms as the building blocks for better polymers. Photo Credit: Lillian McKinney.
James Badham and Wayne Lewis, UCLA Newsroom
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has named UC Santa Barbara and UCLA joint partners in the BioPolymers, Automated Cellular Infrastructure, Flow, and Integrated Chemistry: Materials Innovation Platform (BioPACIFIC MIP). The five-year, $23.7 million collaboration is part of the NSF Materials Innovation Platforms (MIP) Program and has a scientific methodology reflecting the broad goals of the Materials Genome Initiative, which aims to develop new materials “twice as fast at a fraction of the cost.”