Graduate student Jaddie Ho, in the Jessop and Cunningham groups, has developed a "green" paint and his work was recently published in Green Chemistry!

Graduate student Jaddie Ho, in the Jessop and Cunningham groups, has developed a "green" paint and his work was recently published in Green Chemistry!

Graduate student Jaddie Ho, (Jessop and Cunningham groups) has developed paints that work like high performance oil-based paints but are as “green" as water-based paints. His paints, which use carbonated water as a solvent, have just been published in Green Chemistry and covered as a news item in Chem & Eng News. Jaddie's research was also featured in the Queen's Gazette.

The photo on the left shows the new paint (the white strip on the right side) is more resistant to water than a commercial latex paint (the white strip, bubbling on the left). In the photo with the two test strips shows the normal oil-based paints that are flammable and smog-forming (left), but Jaddie Ho's new paints (right) work the same way as oil-based paints without using any organic solvent.