Sentences with phrase «cellulose material»

The cellulose material of the mask retains moisture so your mask won't dry out.

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

Made from 100 % plant - based cellulose material.

Cloth diapers or even disposables using cellulose materials for absorbency may be better choices in this regard.

The DWoC project aims to share information about the potential of cellulose materials and to strengthen the broad - based collaboration network both in Finland and the rest of the world.

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.

Researcher Jan Krauss told the website e! Science News, «Our ultimate goal is to develop a specialized degradation tool for every individual plant waste material containing cellulose.»

To help combat these issues, various companies around the world are developing and using plastics made from plant - based materials such as cornstarch, potato starch and cellulose.

Most people believe the «SCOBY» is the white pancake - like material that grows on top of your Kombucha brew, but this is simply a byproduct (cellulose pellicle) of the fermentation process and is unnecessary for your brew if you have enough starter liquid.

Innovia Films» compostable cellulose - based material, NatureFlex, has been selected by Miss Muffet & Co, to wrap its range of fairytale and nursery rhyme inspired premium confectionery.

Innovia Films» renewable, compostable cellulose - based material, NatureFlex, won Ganong Bros Limited's approval, to pack its range of Easter confectionery..

Innovia Films» compostable, cellulose - based material, NatureFlex NVS, is helping to spread the healthy eating message in Italian schools.

bloom Baby Sensitive Wipes are made of «EcoFiber», an ultra-soft, non-abrasive and skin - friendly material made from sustainably derived cellulose which means that they also breakdown easier than your average baby wipe.

Disposable pads and tampons are made from many of the same materials used in making disposable diapers — bleached pulp or viscose rayon from tree cellulose, super-absorbent acrylic polymers and gels, and plastic backings (a petroleum product)-- if you're a cloth diaper devotee and realize the hazards and costs of disposable diapers, switching to cloth for yourself might suddenly seem easier!

These pads were made from unbleached creped cellulose tissue because cotton was a war material that was difficult to come by.

To imitate the cactus root and its outer covering, they made a material composed of cellulose fibers, agarose cyrogel and microparticles.

Swathes of cellulose grown on 3 - D printed structures could precisely match the contours of specific body parts, curbing the risk of contaminants getting trapped under wrinkles in the cellulose or the material peeling off.

Leaving the material in a sealed container for a few days «nicely produced a cellulose film on top of the printed structure,» says study coauthor Patrick Rühs, a food scientist also at ETH Zurich.

Ten years later, no one knows what was in the cloud of gases released by the combustion of all that jet fuel and building material but science has revealed what was in the dust — cement, steel, gypsum from drywall, building materials, cellulose from paper, synthetic molecules from rugs, glass fibers and human hair from the long decades of the two towers» use, among other items.

Perhaps more importantly, the researchers have also imported genes that allow E. coli to secrete enzymes that break down the tough material that makes up the bulk of plants — cellulose, specifically hemicellulose — and produce the sugar needed to fuel this process.

These would be new types of bio-ethanol or other sorts of potential fuels that would be made by converting the cellulose, the stocky, woody material that's really makes up the structure of most plants; and we have a lot of that.

The material — made from nanosized whiskers of cellulose — is also lighter than conventional paper and could provide sturdy scaffolds for growing replacement tissues and organs.

Nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC), which is produced by processing wood pulp, is being hailed as the latest wonder material.

To make the new battery, the researchers dissolved cellulose, a plant material used to make paper, in a liquid salt solution.

The project will investigate formation of a value producing network of enterprises around cellulose - based material which includes, among others, design - sector companies.

Bronxculture intends to manufacture the cellulose aerogels and further expand its applications in three areas, namely, insulating materials for packaging boxes, insulating layer for winter garment and oil absorption materials.

«As a heat insulation material, our novel cellulose aerogels offer a few added advantages.

Another important application of the novel cellulose aerogels is to serve as insulation materials for buildings.

Now scientists have built a flexible nanogenerator out of cellulose, an abundant natural material, that could potentially harvest energy from the body — its heartbeats, blood flow and other almost imperceptible but constant movements.

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.

The soy protein and cellulose are cost effective and already used in numerous applications, such as adhesives, plastic products, tissue regeneration materials and wound dressings.

The WSU and Chinese team developed a new kind of air filtering material that uses natural, purified soy protein and bacterial cellulose — an organic compound produced by bacteria.

Finnish cellulose mills provide the new Ioncell fiber with high - quality raw material.

Today, Ford announced it is collaborating with the company Weyerhaeuser to use plastic composite material car parts made of cellulose fibers from sustainably grown trees instead of fiberglass or mineral reinforcements.

One of the sub-goals of the project is to produce cellulose based materials for full - scale 3D printing, which can be anything from printing weather - stripping and doors, to walls and, in the end, complete houses.

In view of the good results of the technique, Etxeberria is now working on other materials, like cellulose.

Cellulose is extracted from wood to make paper, is the basis of cellophane, and has also recently been used by materials scientists developing novel plastic materials.

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

The material — which is 20 times whiter than paper — is made from non-toxic cellulose and achieves such bright whiteness by mimicking the structure of the ultra-thin scales of certain types of beetle.

«The challenge is breaking down cellulose (plant) material, using enzymes, into sugars that can be fermented into ethanol,» he said.

One approach to tapping into all that biomass focuses on cellulose, the material that gives plant cells their strong walls.

The enzymes — lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases (LPMOs)-- are secreted by both fungi and bacteria and have the ability to «chip away» at cellulose and other intractable materials.

This insatiable demand for plant cellulose — based writing and packaging materials may end up having a silver lining: a component for a new type of low - cost, Earth - friendly rechargeable battery.

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.

This change drives a series of chemical reactions, triggering the breakdown of the various «cellulose» based materials that are present in these complex wastes.

While the hemicellulose material is easily dissolved by a process known as dilute acid - catalyzed hydrolysis, the cellulose is tougher and remains solid.

To minimize any impacts on food supplies, the investigators then sought out genes from other bacterial species that can break down cellulose, the tough material that makes up the bulk of plants but is not fit for human consumption.

In addition, the new kind of ink from the Empa lab is made from a renewable material — cellulose.

Empa researchers Gilberto Siqueira and Tanja Zimmermann from the Laboratory for Applied Wood Materials have now succeeded, together with colleagues from Harvard University and ETH Zürich, in developing a new, environmentally friendly 3D printing ink made from cellulose nanocrystals (CNC).

Fungal activity releases the nutrients locked inside material rich in lignin and cellulose, from leaves and twigs to mighty trunks, so that further generations of plants can grow.