Transformation of American Rubber through Domestic Innovation for Supply Security (TARDISS) – Engineering Research Center (ERC)
• The Engineering Research Center for Transformation of American Rubber through Domestic Innovation for Supply Security: TARDISS will lead fundamental research supporting the creation of a Silicon Valley of Domestic Rubber Production s. • Our U.S. Sunlight to Material vision harnesses the power of nature, creating bridges between engineering, biology, and agriculture, to revolutionize alternative natural rubber (NR) production from domestic crops: guayule, rubber dandelion and mountain gum. • TARDISS will play a leadership role in research and accelerate current U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and industrial (Bridgestone, Goodyear) efforts towards a domestic NR supply, through fundamental research into plant biology and rubber technology obstacles that have impeded cultivation and processing of potential domestic crops.
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