Featured Researcher: Mohini Sain

By Research Communications, Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Mohini Sain. Photo by Liam Sharp

Mohini Sain. Photo by Liam Sharp

Mohini Sain sees the car of the future made up of durable bumpers from renewable resources. The forestry and chemical engineering professor has pioneered the use of renewable raw materials, such as soybean oils, potato starch, wood and agro-fibre, instead of plastic in automobile parts, office furniture, sports equipment and ultimately medical devices. His spin-off company Greencore is working with a manufacturing company to further research manufacturing plant trials. Sain says that these green materials represent an important step towards reducing petrochemical-based material consumption and living in a bio-based economy.

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  1. Jul 29, 10 at 3:44 pm, Amarjit Dhaliwal said:

    Hello Mr. Sain,
    I understand the department of forestry has an injection molder which molds bio-friendly plastics. I was wondering if this injection molder is capable of producing bio-degradable microplates for use in biological assays?
    I am from the institute of optical sciences, at U of T, and am currently working out of Prof. Goh’s lab.
    Regards,
    Amarjit Dhaliwal

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