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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Dr. Kadir Aslan, Professor of Chemistry at Morgan State University, has recently described and demonstrated the use of a new crystallization technology, called metal-assisted and microwave-assisted evaporative crystallization (MA-MAEC). The MA-MAEC technology was the subject of Morgan’s first ever patent full application in its over 140-year history.</span>
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Droid Sans', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">Morgan State Assistant Biology Professor Dr. Viji Sitther. Last month, Dr. Sitther received a $100,000 Maryland Innovation Initiative grant to begin development of a method to produce biofuel from cyanobacteria in naturally available salt water.</span>
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