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Ramani Narayan

http://www.msu.edu/user/narayan

email: [email protected]

INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

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MBI BioMaterials Research Group

(Narayan & Staff)

Michigan State UniversityNarayan Research Group

Graduate & Undergraduates

Engineering & Design of PLA polymers for Industrial applications

Modified Biodegradable, thermoplastic Starch Esters for molding and paper coatings

Thermoplastic Starch-PCL alloys for film applications

Family of VOC-free waterborne adhesives that are biodegradable and non-interfering in repulping operations

TECHNOLOGYR&D

BUSINESSCommercialization

CARGILL(Now Cargill-Dow LLC)

Contract R&D

BIOPLASTICS INC...Start-up Business

LIONS ADHESIVES INC...Start-up Business

EVERCORN INC.JV company of GRT and Japan Corn Starch

Commercialization of agricultural feedstocks based technologies Biodegradable Materials

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BUSINESS PIPELINE

MBI

Start-Ups Joint Ventures

New InventionsUniversities

Federal LabsEntrepreneurs

New Businesses

LactechGRT/Cargill JV

EFX SystemsGRT/Ecolotrol JV

EverCorn, Inc.GRT/JCS JV

Synthon CorporationGRT

Natura, Inc.GRT

Auxein CorporationGRT

BioPlastics, Inc.GRT

Lions AdhesivesGRT

GRT

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www.wetnset.com

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Biodegradable Starch EstersBiodegradable Starch EstersBiodegradable Starch EstersBiodegradable Starch Esters

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Composting of Composting of Biodegradable Starch EstersBiodegradable Starch Esters

Composting of Composting of Biodegradable Starch EstersBiodegradable Starch Esters

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YNTHETIXTM

ADVANCED POLYMERS FROM PLANET EARTH

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About ECOSYNTHETIXAbout ECOSYNTHETIX

WHO WE AREWHO WE AREEcoSynthetix (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 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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YNTHETIXTM

ADVANCED POLYMERS FROM PLANET EARTH

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OUR RESULTS : OUR RESULTS : Sugar-Acrylic Copolymer AdhesivesSugar-Acrylic Copolymer Adhesives

• 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 fibersFORuse in film, molded products, and composites applications

Using

REACTIVE EXTRUSION PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY

polymerization/copolymerization & compounding

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STANFORD UNIVERSITYSOWING 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 UNIVERSITYSOWING ENTREPRENEURIAL SEEDS

“It takes more than a great idea/innovation to

grow a great business”

Engineering School’s Stanford Technology Ventures Program Three semester sequence designed for seniors and coterminal

master’s degree students

Classroom instruction in start-up business basics

a summer co-op experience at a high-tech start-up firm

a “debriefing” course in which students examine their

entrepreneurial experiences through presentations and discussion

15-20 students

Tom Byers; [email protected]://www.stanford.edu/group.stvp

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AN INNOVATION ENGINE FOR LUCENT

A technology that promises the efficient delivery of high quality speech and

music over the Internet

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

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

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 micro-lasers. These high-

power micro-lasers could increase the speed of voice, video, Internet, and

other data transmissions via existing fiber-optic networks or could become

the basis of entirely new architecture for local-area networks

C&EN November 30, 1998

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A SIMPLE PLASTIC TOY MADE MILLIONS!! FOR THE

ENTREPREUNER & HELPED FLEDGLING

POLYETHYLENE RESIN PRODUCER TO GET

ADDITIONAL MARKETS FOR THEIR PE RESIN

SIMPLE INNOVATION IS GOLDEN TOO!!!

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A SIMPLE PLASTIC TOY MADE MILLIONS!! FOR THE

ENTREPREUNER & HELPED FLEDGLING

POLYETHYLENE RESIN PRODUCER TO GET

ADDITIONAL MARKETS FOR THEIR PE RESIN

SIMPLE INNOVATION IS GOLDEN TOO!!!

“THE HULA HOOP”

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SO

Every student in the program ought to start a company

NOThe trend is toward an entrepreneurial global economy where

engineers need to be trained to “innovate” and learn business

skills, team work, communication

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

Time

Value

in Use

•Natural Ingredients

•Labor Intensive

•Attractive Aesthetics

•Cheap petroleum

•Ease of manufacture

•Low labor input

•Excellent functionality

•Recyclable

•Biodegradable

•Non-polluting

•Energy efficient

•Tailored Functionality

•Renewable resource based

Silk

Aramids

LycraVinyl

Polyester

Nylon

Rayon

Wool

Cotton

Feathers

Fur

?

Traditional

Materials

Synthetics Environmentally Friendly

Products/Processes

SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGYParadigm shift