narayan ramani narayan email: rnarayan@compuserve.com innovation & technology transfer
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Narayan
Ramani Narayan
http://www.msu.edu/user/narayan
email: rnarayan@compuserve.com
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; thyers@stanford.eduhttp://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
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