Plant cell walls are primarily made of cellulose, which is the most abundant macromolecule on Earth. Cellulose fibers are long, linear polymers of hundreds of glucose molecules. These fibers ...

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 ...

Kima Chemical, the biggest cellulose ether maker in China, is proud to say that it can make an amazing 20,000 tons of ...

A team of scientists discovered a naturally occurring gene in the poplar tree that enhances photosynthetic activity and ...

It was once believed that cellulose was the structural material in the cell walls of all green plants. Now it appears that other substances are employed for this purpose in certain marine algae By ...

The plant will provide a sustainable and long-term solution for the factory supporting the Hitachi Energy Sustainability 2030 ...

Cellulosic bio-ethanol is poised to see large scale production for the first time next year. Poet-DSM Advanced Biofuels, LLC, is ready to start construction of a plant in early 2014 that will ...

The efficient use of cellulose—the primary plant scaffold and a major natural building block—could address many issues ...

It’s one of the new innovations DuPont said it has incorporated into the plant, touted as the world’s largest cellulosic ethanol plant; DuPont expects it to eventually make 30 million gallons ...

MOSCOW, April 17. /TASS/. Five people have died in a sewage gas outburst at the Selenga cellulose and cardboard plant in the Siberian republic of Buryatia, a source in the local emergencies ...