Panyushkina and her team at the University of Arizona carefully dissected individual tree rings from ancient wood samples ...
A team of scientists discovered a naturally occurring gene in the poplar tree that enhances photosynthetic activity and ...
Scientists and engineers at North Carolina State University have discovered trees can be used to produce greener, ...
Cellulose is everywhere. In fact, it is the most abundant organic molecule on the Earth! It’s in (but not limited to) our food, clothing, and plastics, and the cellulose compound nitrocellulose is ...
In general, cellulose nanofibres made from tree pulp are several micrometres-long or less, and therefore have particular uses. For the past 30 years, Tajima has been harnessing fermentation ...
I am a plant molecular biologist who is interested in understanding of how trees make cellulose. Simply put, cellulose is a chain of glucose molecules, and a large number of such cellulose chains ...
The cellulose nanofibrils that are found in wood and other natural materials are similar to carbon nanotubes in many ways and could be used to strengthen composites for manufacturing. Although the ...