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Senay Simsek, head of the Department of Food Science and the Dean’s Chair in Food Science at Purdue University’s College of Agriculture, leads a team developing patent-pending, superabsorbent materials from cellulose extracted from hemp and refined through a sequence of treatments. Photo courtesy Tom Campbell/Purdue Agricultural Communications
Senay Simsek, head of the Department of Food Science and the Dean’s Chair in Food Science at Purdue University’s College of Agriculture, leads a team developing patent-pending, superabsorbent materials from cellulose extracted from hemp and refined through a sequence of treatments. Photo courtesy Tom Campbell/Purdue Agricultural Communications

Senay Simsek, head of the Department of Food Science and the Dean’s Chair in Food Science at
Purdue University’s College of Agriculture, leads a team developing patent-pending, superabsorbent materials from cellulose extracted from hemp and refined through a sequence of treatments. Photo courtesy Tom Campbell/Purdue Agricultural Communications