Improved bacterial cellulose could help create tougher, greener materials for things we use every day. As plastic waste continues to accumulate across the globe, creating serious environmental ...

Society has long struggled with petroleum-derived plastic pollution, and awareness of microplastics' detrimental effects on ...

A detailed look at how viscose is made, its material properties, and the environmental impact of production. Plus emerging ...

Engineers have developed a new way of producing sheets of bacterial cellulose, which could support the development of ...

Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a powerful new material by guiding bacteria to grow ...

Plastic recycling is inefficient, toxic, and hard to scale. Engineers are now exploring better material flows to build safer ...

Suitable for both dry goods and liquids, PAPACKS' Fiber-Bottle is composed entirely of cellulose fibers, combining 100% ...

The new approach can better target drugs and other bioactive compounds used to improve human and animal health.

Foams have numerous possible potential applications, for example, ranging from the automotive, household and mechanical engineering sectors to leisure and sports applications.

The world's first thousand-ton-scale ionic liquid-based regenerated cellulose fiber project has officially commenced ...

Plants convert sunlight to biomass, which is primarily composed of lignocellulose, the most abundant natural biopolymer and a potential feedstock for fuel and chemical production. Cellulose ...