Rodriguez is the founder and CEO of Mycocycle, one of a fresh crop of startups using fungi, nature’s recyclers, to create plastic-like polymers for a post-fossil fuel economy.Today, nearly all ...

Cellulose and chitin are the world's first- and second-most common biopolymers, found in plants and crustacean shells (among other places) respectively. Georgia Tech scientists have now devised a ...

Cleaner, more cost-effective way to make useful industrial chemicals. McGill University. Journal Angewandte Chemie DOI 10.1002/anie.202207206 ...

Microbial extraction of chitin from seafood waste using sugars derived from fruit waste-stream. AMB Express , 2020; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1186/s13568-020-0954-7 Cite This Page : ...

Crab, lobster and prawn shells usually end up in the dustbin. Now scientists have converted this waste into a useful, biodegradable industrial product. Enzymes can convert a substance derived from ...

However, the question of whether purified chitin or cellulose fibres could be released from the packaging and induce their own allergy response should be addressed.” The spray-coated multilayer ...

Researchers from the University of Wuhan and Guangxi University produced the fibrous foam by combining cellulose fibres from cotton and the tough biopolymer chitin, which forms a squid's skeleton ...

Researchers at Empa’s Cellulose and Wood Materials laboratory have developed a biodegradable material with properties suitable for multiple applications. Using the mycelium of the edible split-gill ...

Logging residue, branch clippings and even prawn shells may serve as raw materials for cheaper biofuels -- thanks to a new enzyme that breaks down biomass more quickly. What's more, this could ...

Using a combination of yeast and white-rot fungus, mixed in with a cellulose hydrogel, the team was able to synthesize electronically conductive 3D-printable inks for use as electrodes. Their proof-of ...

Milk protein and cellulose derived from plants may be the next big thing in sustainability, thanks to a first-of-its-kind advancement made by researchers at Penn State.

Cellulose acetate is derived from renewable resources such as wood pulp, which differs from most other man-made polymers which are petrochemical derivitives. General properties include transparency, ...