A team of researchers has succeeded in transforming cellulose into starch, a process that has the potential to provide a previously untapped nutrient source from plants not traditionally though of as ...

Biocompatible and biodegradable, cellulose materials are being studied for use in high-performance composites and optical films, and to deliver medicine in pills. But before a material can be ...

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs), produced by the acid hydrolysis of wood, cotton or other cellulose-rich sources, constitute a renewable nanosized raw material with a broad range of envisaged uses: for ...

This petri dish contains confetti of NCC films, a new material produced from wood cellulose, in different colors. ((FP Innovations)) "Plastics! There's a great future in plastics!" Cinema buffs will ...

I quote good news from a recent Lincoln Journal Star editorial (Feb. 23): “Experts say that the net energy gain in producing ethanol from cellulose would be as much as seven times greater than that in ...