A team has identified a protein that modifies the cellular machinery responsible for producing cellulose, which could inform the design of more stable, cellulose-enriched materials for biofuels and ...

Aptly called the Kyoto Process after the Kyoto University laboratory in Japan where the research is taking place, the process aims to reduce the cost of producing vehicles while making them lighter ...

Researchers have set a new world record: they 3D printed complex objects with higher cellulose content than that of any other additively manufactured cellulose-based parts. To achieve this, they used ...

You may have noticed an increasing number of hangers in high street fashion outlets sporting clothing made with the environmentally conscious shopper in mind. Organic cotton, hemp, bamboo and even ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AE Biofuels, Inc. (OTCBB:AEBF) an advanced energy company that is developing next-generation ethanol and biodiesel production worldwide, today announced that it has ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- For centuries, cellulose has formed the basis of the world's most abundantly printed-on material: paper. Now, thanks to new research at MIT, it may also become an abundant material ...

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: ...

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