USA 2026

Geoffrey W. Coates and Marc A. Hillmyer

2026 Balzan Prize for Biodegradable Polymers from Renewable Sources

For their pioneering and collaborative development of sustainable polymers, combining molecular design and catalysis to transform renewable feedstocks and recovered carbon dioxide into high-performance, degradable and recyclable materials, and for advancing these discoveries from fundamental science to industrial materials and technologies.

Laudatio

Geoffrey W. Coates: Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University

Marc A. Hillmyer: University of Minnesota, Department of Chemistry 

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