When manufacturing cellulose-based products, challenges, such as the high melting point of cellulose, make it impossible for it to be melted without decomposition. Thus, shaping cellulose materials ...

Utilization of biomass as a chemical resource is a promising strategy for establishing a circular economy. Cellulose, a ...

Scientists recorded 24 hours of the cellular construction process, revealing surprising new details about how plant cell ...

The discovery unveils the molecular machinery that plants use to weave cellulose chains into cable-like structures called 'microfibrils.' New research from the University of Virginia School of ...

Cellulose makes up plant cell walls, gives plants shape and form and is a target of renewable, plant-based biofuels research. But how it forms, and thus how it can be modified to design energy-rich ...

Multiple research teams across the globe have developed biodegradable packaging materials built from plant fibers, producing ...

Utilization of biomass as a chemical resource is a promising strategy for establishing a circular economy. Cellulose, a ...

Using cellulose nanofibers from wood, researchers have made paper that can be tuned using a slow heat treatment to be effective semiconductors, some almost as conductive as metals (ACS Nano 2022, DOI: ...