Group Lead, Ved Krishna
Hello, hello! Here’s a riddle – What do Methane and Mangoes have in common? We’ll have to ask Molly Morse and find out! CEO and co-founder of Mango Materials, Molly is working to produce biodegradable plastics (PHA) made from waste biogas that are economically competitive with conventional oil-ba
0:00 – trying to address plastic pollution and find alternative solutions to the materials...
hello hello I’m so happy today to have Molly mors the co-founder and CEO of mango materials with us and Molly um I’m always excited by PHA and you’re doing so much there so thank you so much for joining us and teaching us more about B Sure happy to be here thank you great I know I’ve read a little bit about your growing up and the influences you ha
9:00 – of different materials to make bio composits so you take natural fibers...
the three of us uh all three of us have phds in engineering and we have some similarities and our our research was all related but different and now we all run different parts of mango and it’s been many many years and let me tell you I think there was an element of luck and it was also an element of people that are going to go on a journey with yo
18:00 – Solutions so that's our key challenge which they would probably yeah our...
it never works right no no don’t say it’s like this is your baby you’re now not going to give it up okay so I want to understand get into the veds of it um I’ve of course I’ve had a few people on this show who work with BHA Daniel carav is a very dear friend I look up to him then Brad Rogers at danimer uh again and and and lots of other people as w
27:00 – much carbon you need for how much um how how much carbon...
lot of people like I’m sure you know CJ biomaterials and nature works and both of them again have been I’ve been talking to and uh they are blending PLA and pH so so you know again and you said brittle Ina case of p3hb but of course pla is brittle and then they’re adding some you know PHA to make it less Britt so you know so that’s a different stru
36:00 – fiber um fiber whether it's for non-wovens like wipes or fiber for...
like yes all that work should happen and I will we will read all the papers and learn from it but yeah what about what about homogeneity when you look at a gas based production is do you get it pretty like you said you you in a way you’re a Puritan b3b so so you know so is that is that also because it’s quite homogenous or do you still have to it’s
45:00 – can choose a material you can choose a material for the environment...
simple huh so so tell us more about the nameific process and then of course what is yop and yop plus you know what are differ so um we were trying like so what we make is formulated PHA like generally you like you can have pellets that are nothing but PHA but even then pH is a family there’s p3hb and there’s pH phbv and a whole bunch of others like
54:00 – Plastics industry for the better like that's really what it's about and...
there’s just there’s not enough pressure yet like we know you’re a little you’re more you’re very cost sensitive right now because you’re small and yeah like we know that it’ll work for us but there’s just there’s not legislation and there’s just not enough pressure so we’re just gonna wait and like I’ve had a number of those conversations just lik
63:00 – PHA is the main type of polymer material being used in our...
really close friends in grad school that were men um and so I think the reason we ended I mean going back to kind of like when I was young and growing up like I think there was a lot of unique factors in that situation for me personally like and also for an and Allison as well the one thing I will say that like sometimes I think I’m like this would
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