Computer-assisted technology for recycling plastics, a technique for producing a valuable chemical from agricultural waste, and genetic mutations that can turn trees into carbon-sucking chemical factories are among the innovations by Wisconsin Energy Institute investigators that address critical environmental concerns while driving new business ventures.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), an organization that supports UW–Madison research and helps commercialize discoveries, recently profiled several of these scientists and their innovations.
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