According to Ingrida Pauliukaitytė, a Ph.D. student at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) and one of the creators of the new environmentally friendly cellulose nanofiber, the invention is a ...

Nanopasta, which clocks in at two hundredths the width of a human hair, is the thinnest pasta in the world. And it's so fine ...

It involves coating fruits and vegetables with cellulose nanofibers extracted from onion skin, using a synthetic biopolymer to hold the fibers together, and nanocurcumin as an additional ...

A University of Maine researcher had a lightbulb moment while watching news about wildfires raging through California in 2019. James Anderson saw clips of planes dumping out water to quench the flames ...

Nanopapers that swell into larger 3D structures pave the path towards designs of intelligent materials like robotic sensors ...

But plant-based ‘bioplastics’ are not new. The first man-made plastic was made in 1862 using cellulose, the main component of plant cell walls, pre-dating the petroleum-based plastics that ...

Nanocellulose is a derivative of cellulose, the most abundant organic polymer on Earth, largely present in the cell walls of plants. Cellulose is a natural polymer discovered in 1838 by French chemist ...

These nanofibers have the potential to be used ... it is the second-largest source of biomass on Earth, behind cellulose. And it is biodegradable, meaning it can be broken down in the body ...

He realized the material — known as cellulose nanofiber or biogel — had all the right qualities to be an effective fire extinguisher. The cellulose nanofiber quickly put out flames ...