Sentences with phrase «cellulose found»

The cellulose found in these ingredients is what gives these biodegradable granules their amazing clumping properties.

New startup Made from Malai developed a compostable vegan leather from bacterial cellulose found in discarded coconut water.

Also wheat bran is essential for creating the proper environment for bacterial growth (reference is on this site) including that it cleans the intestinal tract somewhat differently that indigestible cellulose found in fruits.

Not exact matches

Regular biofuel production works by fermenting the sugars stored in crops such as sugar cane or corn, but the team's idea is to instead transform the sugar found in the cellulose of the residual crop material — the stalks, stems and leaves.

But scientists do know that lignins — the much larger molecules that have a direct relationship with fibers like cellulose and hemicellulose mdash; can contain lignans including the pinoresinol and lariciresinol found in kale.

Xylitol is commercially found in the cellulose of wood, sugar cane pulp, certain seed hulls, and / or corn cobs.

The EC50, the concentration of a substance that reduces the growth of Escherichia coli to 50 %, was found to be 158 g / L for the newly developed carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, whereas the EC50 of ionic liquid * 2, one of the conventional solvents of cellulose, was 9 g / L.

Cellulose acetate loses strength as it absorbs water, so the skin is waterproofed by adding a protein found in paper wasp saliva that makes their nests hydrophobic.

Cellulose fibers produced by the model organism Komagataeibacter (Gluconacetobacter) xylinus are very similar to those found in plants (1) and are increasingly used in biotechnology and nanotechnology (2, 3).

Finding a cost - effective method for breaking down the tough cellulose in plant matter to produce ethanol has been a tough challenge, involving both innovations in chemistry and in field operations like the baling feeder developed by Woodford.

Wood the - «green gold» of Finland — is a renewable raw material and wood cellulose can be converted to a golden opportunity when we find new high added value applications alongside the traditional paper and pulp industry,» says Project Coordinator Johanna Buchert, Vice President, Research, VTT.

Other species of bacteria, such as Salmonella, also produce the modified cellulose, Cegelski and her team found.

A new view of microbes» cellulose shows how it's different from the kind found in plants.

Ford research found that the cellulose - based plastic composite met its stringent durability requirements but weighs 10 percent less than the alternative.

Despite its great strength, Berglund's «nanopaper» is produced from a biological material found in conventional paper: cellulose.

The researchers don't know what these proteins do, but they found them in a variety of microbes, including plant and human pathogens, as well as in cellulose - degrading and bioremediation organisms.

Conducted by Zainab Ngaini and colleagues at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, the study found that when sago waste (consisting primarily of cellulose and lignin) is chemically modified using fatty acid derivatives, the resulting material is more hydrophobic than untreated sago waste, implying that it has less affinity for water and an excellent affinity for oil.

Atalla finds that briefly soaking corn stover (the leftover parts of the plant, such as husks) in a solution of sodium hydroxide, ethanol, and water changes the molecular structure of the cellulose, allowing him to convert nearly twice as much of it as is possible with existing methods.

In 1996, her group found strong but not conclusive evidence that an almost identical gene controlled cellulose synthesis in cotton.

That will make genetic engineering of cellulose difficult until all the genes in at least one species are found and understood, she says.

Daniel Smalley at Brigham Young University in Utah and his colleagues have found a way to form a 3D image using a single fast - moving particle of cellulose, trapped inside a laser beam invisible to the human eye.

The researchers found insoluble cellulose fiber only modestly reduced obesity and dysglycemia.

«Our findings suggest that cellulose nanofibers extracted from banana waste could help improve ice cream in several ways,» Robin Zuluaga Gallego, Ph.D., says.

They found that the enzymes easily broke down the cellulose in plant biomass into glucose at temperatures up to 80 degrees Celsius.

But up to now, Morrison says, biochemists so far have found it difficult to match existing enzymes with the needed rates of cellulose conversion, and to make the process cost - effective.

«Our insight is that we have to find a balance which avoids cellulose dehydration but allows phase separation,» Langan said.

The special nano structure of the cellulose in Cladophora algae was found to be perfect as the basis for environmentally - friendly batteries.

Optimizing their method, the team found that they could consistently achieve a high yield of HMF — the method converted about 57 percent of the sugar content in the cellulose feedstock to HMF through this single step process.

RICHLAND, Wash. — Researchers at Washington State University Tri-Cities and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a new way to define the molecular structure of cellulose, which could lead to cheaper and more efficient ways to make a variety of crucial bioproducts.

After trying different metal chloride catalysts in the ionic solvent, they found a pair of catalysts that worked well: A combination of copper chloride and chromium chloride under 120 degrees Celsius broke down the cellulose without creating a lot of unwanted byproducts.

In Gladden et al., we characterized twenty - one cellulose - degrading enzymes derived from a thermophilic microbial community and found that 70 % of them were stable and active in [C2C1Im][OAc].

These polysaccharides, namely alginates, carrageenans, cellulose and agars found in kelp and other seaweeds aid digestion.

Soluble fibres such as pectin, guar gum, betaglucans (oat) reduce significantly blood cholesterol both in hypercholesterolemic and normocholesterolemic individuals, effects not found when non-soluble fibres such as cellulose and wheat bran are tried.

Xylitol is commercially found in the cellulose of wood, sugar cane pulp, certain seed hulls, and / or corn cobs.

But scientists do know that lignins — the much larger molecules that have a direct relationship with fibers like cellulose and hemicellulose mdash; can contain lignans including the pinoresinol and lariciresinol found in kale.

One trial compared cellulose (another type of fiber found in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains) and inulin and looked at how they both influenced weight loss.

Digestive enzymes work by breaking down compounds found in the cell walls of fiber like pectins, cellulose, and starches.

Hemicelluloses are a group of polysaccharides found in plant cell walls that surround cellulose.

Tencel is a man - made fabric but it's harvested from the natural cellulose material found in wood pulp.

However, Behall (1990) compared the addition of 19.5 g of one of four different Functional Fibers (cellulose, carboxymethycellulose gum, karaya gum, and locust bean gum) to a low fiber diet with respect to glucose and insulin response curves from a standard glucose tolerance test and found no significant differences between the diets after 4 weeks.

After all, when we find our friends eating mountains of cellulose, we disdainfully refer to their meals as «rabbit food»!

Fibers such as FOS, inulin, and resistant starch can lead to a significant increase in the production of butyrate, while fibers found in citrus pectin, citrus pulp, beet pulp, and cellulose yield relatively low levels of butyrate.8 This difference in butyrate production is directly related to the carbon structure of the individual fibers.

I received an MS in Ocean Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz a few years ago (in the area of marine nitrogen fluxes); at the time I was a recipient of an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship in microbiology — and I transferred into the Biochemistry department hoping to go into renewable energy research, which seemed to be very interesting, important and useful work — I was particularly interested in algal biochemistry (a great oil source) or fungal enzymes (for cellulose digestion)-- but when I took these proposals to the Dean of Graduate Studies, he shook his head and said «You will never be able to find funding for this kind of work — can't you do something else?»

They've found that the cellulose acetate that makes up most of the material in a cigarette butt can easily be changed into a carbon - based material that out - performs common materials used in energy storage devices.