Paper to Plastics: An Interdisciplinary Summer Outreach Project in Sustainability

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1574-1579

  Tamburini, Fiona ^a   Kelly, Thomas ^a   Weerapana, Eranthie ^a   Byers, Jeffery A ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemistry; Bioorganic Chemistry; Catalysis; Green Chemistry; Hands On Learning Manipulatives; High School Introductory Chemistry; Interdisciplinary Multidisciplinary; Organic Chemistry; Polymer Chemistry; Polymerization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927617440     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed400892t     Document Type: Article

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