SMARC trainee Melika Tajipour, from Mark Mba-Wright’s Laboratory at Iowa State University presented research on the techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of synthetic spider silk production from E. coli at the 2024 AIChE – American Institute of Chemical Engineers-Annual Meeting in San Diego. This project, a collaboration with Professors Marcus Foston, and Fuzhong Zhang from Washington University in St. Louis, focuses on advancing sustainable biomaterials to enable eco-friendly manufacturing solutions.
View the abstract for her presentation entitled, “Techno Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Assessment for Synthetic Spider Silk Production here.
