August 4, 2000

A Professor Takes a Chemistry Trend to the Cleaners

By LILA GUTERMAN

Joseph M. DeSimone didn't plan to go into the dry-cleaning business.

In a green-chemistry success story, the professor of chemistry and chemical engineering was working with liquid carbon dioxide when he discovered that

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