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Feb 7, 2018
EnergyEne Inc. is getting hands-on in the development of guayule as an alternative to natural rubber with a radiation attenuation glove that doesn't trigger latex allergies and has better polymer-filler interaction, according to CEO Katrina Cornish. You can read more by clicking here.
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Jan 19, 2018
Three Cornish Lab students graduated in December! Congratulations to David Ramirez, Lily Luo, and Akbar Ghaffar for earning their PhD's!! We are so proud of their accomplishments and wish them all the best in their future endeavors! Click here to learn more about these remarkable graduates and other Cornish Lab alumni!
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Oct 3, 2017
Dr. Katrina Cornish received the A. E. Thompson Career Achievement Award last week at the 2017 International Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC) Conference. This award is AAIC’s highest honor. Please click here to learn more about this prestigious award.
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Oct 3, 2017
Two FABE graduate students were recognized at the recent Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops Annual Conference. David Ramirez and Tony Ren were both recognized alongside their advisor, Dr. Katrina Cornish, who received the A. E. Thompson Career Achievement Award. Read the article by clicking here.
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Oct 3, 2017
Congratulations Tony Ren, recipient of the 2017 OSU Materials Week Best Poster Award and Runnerup for the Three Minute Thesis Competition! Click here to read more!
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Jul 20, 2017
General Motors said it will commit to buying sustainable natural rubber for the 49 million tires it buys annually, an initiative aimed at helping small rubber farmers while protecting company profits by ensuring the material’s long-term availability. Click here to read the article.
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May 31, 2017
The US can support rubber/energy crops the size of corn or soybean with hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and the need is pressing, because world rubber demand is expected to grow from 12 million tons in 2014 to 30 million tons by 2030. Click here to see Dr. Cornish's illuminating overview of the alternatives at ABLC 2017 in Washington.
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May 19, 2017
Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered that food waste can partially replace the petroleum-based filler that has been used in manufacturing tires for more than a century. Click here to learn how!
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May 18, 2017
Researchers at OSU have discovered that food waste, specifically tomato peels and eggshells, makes excellent filler for rubber tires, exceeding industrial standards for performance. Filler is combined with rubber to make the rubber composite used in tires. Food waste could partially replace carbon black, the petroleum-based filler long used in tire manufacturing, which has become increasingly hard to come by. Click here to read more.
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May 18, 2017
Katrina Cornish is a professor in Ohio State's College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences who studies rubber biosynthesis and production. She and a team of researchers have found finely-ground egg shells and tomato peels are an adequate replacement for carbon black. Click here to learn more.
