Novomer is commercializing a family of high performance, cost effective and environmentally responsible polymers and chemicals. Novomer's proprietary catalyst technologies enable traditional chemical feedstocks to be combined with CO2 and CO to synthesize sustainable chemicals and materials for a wide variety of applications. Novomer co-founders Geoffrey Coates, Tony Eisenhut and Scott Allen identified the potential of a suite of catalysts discovered in Coates' research labs at Cornell University and launched Novomer to develop and commercialize the innovative products and processes. Today, Novomer has two platforms: epoxide/carbon dioxide copolymers and epoxide carbonylation. The CO2-based platform uses CO2 as a raw material to produce a family of polyols for use in polyurethane applications while the CO-based platform uses CO and ethylene oxide to produce chemical intermediates, such as acrylic acid, succinic anhydride, and butanediol. This presentation will focus on the commercial development of the CO2 and CO platforms and will describe the path an invention takes from the initial university laboratory discovery to a commercial product.

Award Address (Kathryn C. Hach Award for Entrepreneurial Success sponsored by the Kathryn C. Hach Award Fund). Converting pollutants into polymers and specialty chemicals

251st National Meeting (2016)

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