Although the components of wood – cellulose and lignin – are exceedingly cheap and plentiful, combining these into a wood-like structure is not straightforward, despite many attempts to make ...

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 ...

Can you imagine a smartphone with a wooden touchscreen? Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not—unless you've heard of ...

To address this need, Pengtao Liu and colleagues developed an eco-friendly detergent from ingredients found in abundant ...

Therefore, differences in density between metals are usually based on the size and mass of the atoms. Wood is made from a long molecule called cellulose. Cellulose is made from glucose molecules ...

From laundry detergent to dishwasher tablets, cleaning products are an indispensable part of life. Yet the chemicals that make these products so effective can be difficult to break down or could even ...

It just so happens that cellulose, a naturally occurring plant fiber, is found in wood pulp, and it is often ... nonetheless, ...

Lignin is synthesized by polymerization of these components and their ratio within the polymer varies between different plants, wood tissues and cell wall layers. Cellulose, hemicellulose and ...