Sydney Higgins

Sydney Higgins is a Research Scientist at Soane Materials. She graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering with a certificate in Biomaterials. While at UF she was an undergraduate researcher in the Nino Research Group where she worked on the electrospinning of memristive and conductive polymers in coaxial orientations. After graduating, she worked at Transform Materials where she contributed to the development of the net-zero carbon emission production of acetylene and hydrogen through conversion of natural gas using microwave plasma. While there, she helped with the downstream purification of acetylene as well as performed experiments to determine the safe boundaries in pressure and temperature of acetylene within a closed system.

 

At Soane Materials, Sydney has spent her time developing the SoaneClean product lines, mainly investing her time in the laundry detergent sheet. SoaneClean aims to reduce shipped water in cleaning and homecare products to vastly reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with these products. Sydney and the team have proven that NFC can be used as a matrix to safely and efficiently encapsulate active cleaning agents.