Tag - Synthetic Polymers

New Plant-Derived Material is Stronger Than Bone and Hard as Aluminum

Scientists from MIT have crafted a new composite material from a greater part of cellulose nanocrystals and a synthetic polymer.Credit: Adam HuntResearch on the new material has been published in the journal Cellulose.Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have engineered a new composite material made from cellulose and synthetic polymer. Cellulose fibers...