Tag: chemistry

UMR chemist earns EPA award for "green" latex paint additive

Posted by on June 21, 2005

University of Missouri-Rolla chemist Dr. Michael Van De Mark, director of the UMR Coatings Institute, received a Presidential Green Chemistry Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for his invention of an environmentally friendly latex paint additive that reduces volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions. The additive is marketed under the trademark Archer RC by Archer […]

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UMR students tout new future for soybeans

Posted by on April 15, 2005

If two University of Missouri-Rolla chemistry students have their way, soybeans will one day line Missouri’s highways — literally.

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Chemist’s research named one of year’s top discoveries

Posted by on December 19, 2003

A UMR chemistry professor’s development of a process to sort biologically potent, useful chemicals from their less useful and sometimes toxic counterparts is listed as one of the most important advances in chemistry in 2003 by Chemical and Engineering News, the magazine of the American Chemical Society.

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Research suggests neutron repulsion a major energy source

Posted by on March 27, 2003

Research by an undergraduate chemistry student at the University of Missouri-Rolla may shed new light on where the Sun gets its energy.

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