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...Associate Professor of Chemistry N. John Cooper has already done what nature has been unable to do for millions of years...
...Cooper's specialty is constructing completely original molecules, each with a host of new properties. In particular he deals with bonding carbon atoms onto metal atoms, a process which until recently was considered a scientific impossibility...
...continually trying to tease nature into doing new things for us," says Cooper, described by colleagues as one of today's brightest young inorganic chemists. "There is a received wisdom that you cannot do some things, but when you lose your prejudices, you can do some amazing things...
That's why industry is looking very closely at Cooper's work. Polyethylene, a resin used to make kitchenware and a wide variety of containers, is a substance which was developed in laboratories. Cooper's research similarly holds open a host of practical and potentially lucrative applications in plastics and other chemical fields...
...Cooper's current research on carbons proves his importance. Carbon is a key ingredient in gasoline and plastics, and carbon dioxide is one of ten most abundant potential sources of carbon; by attaching a stable carbon dioxide molecule to a metal center, a new substance is created which in principle may be used as a carbon source, and hence a potential energy source...