Summary
In this project funded by the Chemistry Division, Professors Jia Niu and X. Peter Zhang of the Department of Chemistry at Boston College in the United States is collaborating with Professor Julien Nicolas at University Paris-Saclay/CNRS in France, funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR), to develop a sustainable method to make biodegradable plastics. A key focus of this research is controlling the three-dimensional orientation of the building blocks, also known as the stereochemistry, of the plastic molecules. Each of these building blocks can have two mirror-image stereochemistrie
