[gwern]

I was hoping to hear more about his cat litter work. What did he do? Did he ever talk about it with Barkley? etc

[sndean]

> I was hoping to hear more about his cat litter work

Of course it could be a different Lin Wang working in this area, but it looks like he has a few patents for new absorbent materials and related things [0, 1].

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5849405A/en?inventor=Lin...

[1] https://patents.google.com/patent/US7757638B2/en

[nl]

Cat Litter (and other absorbency products like diapers) are one of the most competitive areas of consumer material science.

I read a great article about how there is continual pressure the shrink the shelf space they take from super markets, and that has led to some pretty interesting breakthroughs in science.

I can't find the article now of course.

[gwern]

If you ever refind that article, please send it to me.

[Rebelgecko]

The hometown on the second link seems to match up. First one might be iffy, but maybe he moved around a bit.