Katrina Cornish has spent more than three decades studying natural rubber and working to develop a viable alternative NR that can be grown domestically in the U.S.After starting with the U.S.Department of Agriculture and working at Yulex Corp.,she has been a research scholar at Ohio State University since mid-2010.Cornish also is chief science and technology officer at EnergyEne Inc.,which produces latex natural rubber from guayule,the desert shrub that,along with the TKS dandelion,is one of the brightest hopes to produce alternative natural rubber in the coming years.After all those years of R&D,Cornish was blunt about her hopes of seeing her life's work blossom as it should."If we can put a man on the moon,we can have a domestic rubber crop,"she said in her presentation at the International Tire Exhibition & Conference.
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