• Question: Has any of your work helped people, animals or the planet?

    Asked by blackhole321 to Chia-Yu, Helen, Matthew, Matt H, Rhod on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Helen Pritchard-Smith

      Helen Pritchard-Smith answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      I use carbon dioxide as one of my starting materials. So instead of letting it become a greenhouse gas and destroy the environment i make it into something much more useful – a (functionalised) lactone which can be made into plastics, agrochemicals and medicinal drugs rather than polluting the atmosphere.

    • Photo: Chia-Yu Lin

      Chia-Yu Lin answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      Not yet, I am afraid. But we are working on this issue.

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