Institute for Advanced Materials | Sustainability

Advanced Sustainability

Researchers at the institute are pioneering new materials to help us make the most out of natural resources, reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing and extend the useful lives of products.

Materials for sustainability include:

Water and air purifications substances help us better manage our resources, supplying more clean water and breathable air
Environmentally benign materials— renewables, recyclables and biodegradables—reduce the impact of manufacturing and innovation on the environment, giving the new products we need a smaller carbon footprint
Extended life materials and coatings like anti-corrosion, self-healing, self-cleaning and anti-fouling agents make the most of what we have, helping our current products last longer

Our changing way of life

Created in the spring of 2009, Case Western Reserve University's Institute for Sustainability brings a diverse array of scholars and students together to help chart the course to that brighter future. Learn more about Institute for Sustainability.

CSE professor to teach first American college course in Myanmar

12/05/13

Daniel Lacks and a dozen master’s students are heading to the South Asian country to teach an intensive two-week course at Yangon Technical University. Myanmar is undergoing political and social reform following decades of restrictive military rule. Recently reopened, Yangon Technical University was one of several institutions shuttered in the 1990s amidst political unrest.

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering’s Umut Gurkan receives innovation award

12/02/13

Umut Gurkan, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, has won the $7,500 Belcher-Weir Family Pediatric Innovation Award from the Center for Clinical Research and Technology at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center.

CWRU researchers aim nanotechnology at micrometastases

10/31/13

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have received two grants totaling nearly $1.7 million to build nanoparticles that seek and destroy metastases too small to be detected with current technologies. They are targeting aggressive cancers that persist through traditional chemotherapy and can form new tumors. The group, led by Efstathios Karathanasis, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and radiology, will spend the next five years perfecting molecular coatings, called ligands, that enable nanochains injected into a patient's blood to home in on micrometastases. The National Cancer Institute awarded the group $1.6 million to pursue the work.

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