Prof. Amar Mohanty, director of t
he Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre, was profiled in a Nov. 21 Maclean’s feature, Bright Ideas, on great inventions developed at universities. The article looked at how Mohanty and his research team enabled single-serve coffee pods to be composted. Mohanty studies engineering of sustainable new materials for the bioeconomy.
U of G-Developed Biodegradable Coffee Pods Featured in Maclean’s
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