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Aaron Sadow

  • The Upcycling+ co-founders with their Spedding Hall reactor and products, left to right, Aaron Sadow, Wenyu Huang and Akalanka Tennakoon.
    Chemistry faculty establish energy start-up called Upcycling+

    Upcycling+ mixes everyday waste plastics, including grocery bags, candy wrappers, milk jugs, and turns them into solid pellets, runs them through a reactor where they’re exposed to heat and catalysts, and harvests the resulting fuel or chemicals. Read More

    April 15, 2025

  • Image of Lake LaVerne on Iowa State's campus
    Faculty receive awards for innovative work in sustainability

    Faculty members are recognized for their research related to sustainability. Read More

    March 12, 2024

  • AAAS honors three LAS faculty for innovative research

    The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is honoring Joshua Rosenbloom, Aaron Sadow, and Yanhai Yin for their distinguished contributions to science. Read More

    January 31, 2023

  • rows of plastic bottles
    Change Agent: Aaron Sadow, finding the chemistry to add value, utility to plastic waste

    This professor of chemistry and Ames Laboratory senior scientist established the Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics (iCOUP) to transform plastic waste into renewables. Read More

    August 9, 2021

  • long hydrocarbon chains breaking down
    With this new science, plastics could see a second life as biodegradable surfactants

    Aaron Sadow, Ames Laboratory scientist and chemistry professor, leads research group that discovered the breakthrough chemical process. Read More

    April 19, 2021

  • Discarded plastic containers piled up.
    Interdisciplinary team of researchers explores new methods of plastic upcycling

    LAS chemist and Ames Lab scientist Sadow works with team to further green chemistry research. Read More

    September 28, 2020

  • Sadow to lead Ames Laboratory Institute for Cooperative Upcycling of Plastics

    Researchers developing ways to upcycle plastics into more valuable materials. Read More

    July 5, 2020

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