Material engineers at Purdue University are developing methods to use the nanocrystals that naturally give cellulose in trees and plants strength, lightweight, and resilience to strengthen ...

The ice, dubbed BioPykrete, rivals concrete in terms of strength. The team suggested that the material might eventually be a ...

A team of researchers at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in Hangzhou has built a soft actuator from one of the most abundant ...

Cellulose nanocrystals—bio-based nanomaterials derived from natural resources such as plant cellulose—are valuable for their use in water treatment, packaging, tissue engineering, electronics, ...

Researchers paired graphene and cellulose nanoparticles with a genetic-algorithm-optimized neural network to predict hybrid ...

Researchers say the reinforced ice is still a proof of concept but could one day be used to build in the Arctic and Antarctic. The post ‘Super ice’ 10 times stronger, bends instead of shattering ...

Scientists have developed a new type of ice piece, which is about 10 times ...

Chemists in Japan, Canada and Europe have uncovered flaws in the surface structure of cellulose nanocrystals—an important step toward deconstructing cellulose to produce renewable nano-materials ...

You can never have too much ice cream, but you can have too much ice in your ice cream. Adding plant-based nanocrystals to the frozen treat could help solve that problem, researchers reported March 20 ...

A team of chemical engineering researchers studied the mechanisms of drying the nanocrystals and proposed nanotechnology to render the nanocrystals highly redispersible in aqueous mediums, while ...