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NYU Tandon School of Engineering Assistant Professor Miguel Modestino and Sophia Haussener of the École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (EPFL) have developed a process they believe will lighten nylon’s environmental impact.
Their process uses solar panels to drive the electrochemical reduction of acrylonitrile (ACN), which can be derived from plant waste, to adiponitrile (ADN) and hydrogen. This in turn will be synthesized into hexanediamine (HDA), one of the existing precursors to Nylon 6,6.
