we can give polymer-based materials mechanical properties they never had before," said Hart. "If we can replace some petroleum-based plastic with naturally-derived cellulose, that’s arguably ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose – a major constituent of all plant cell walls – a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers has captured images of the ...

Regardless of the chosen composite, the goal is to enhance the properties of the base polymer matrix with the reinforcement material. Is cellulose the best material here? Plastic objects created ...

Researchers have now developed a method to make structural colors from cellulose-based polymers by using coated droplets that exist in a surrounding fluid--so-called liquid marbles. The system ...

Cellulose, the most abundant biological macromolecule, is an extracellular, linear polymer of glucose molecules. It represents an essential component of plant cell walls but is also found in algae ...

Representative AFM images are shown in Figure 1. The sulfuric acid treatment preferentially hydrolyzed the amorphous regions of the cellulose. The CNCs collected from the acid hydrolysis residues ...

The two companies agreed to develop a novel material for 3D Printing (3DP) applications utilising Aquafil’s ECONYL® Polymer chemically recycled PA6 and Asahi Kasei’s Cellulose NanoFibre (CNF), with ...