Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute
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Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute is on the campus of the University of Southern California
. Nobel Laureate George A. Olah serves as Director and G.K. Surya Prakash serves as Scientific Co-Director and holds the George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair of Chemistry.
The institute conducts research in Polymer/Materials Chemistry
as well as Hydrocarbon
Chemistry.
University of Southern California
The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
. Nobel Laureate George A. Olah serves as Director and G.K. Surya Prakash serves as Scientific Co-Director and holds the George A. and Judith A. Olah Nobel Laureate Chair of Chemistry.
The institute conducts research in Polymer/Materials Chemistry
Polymer science
Polymer science or macromolecular science is the subfield of materials science concerned with polymers, primarily synthetic polymers such as plastics...
as well as Hydrocarbon
Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon. Hydrocarbons from which one hydrogen atom has been removed are functional groups, called hydrocarbyls....
Chemistry.