Sentences with phrase «using cellulose»

This time he has created a bench from recycled cardboard cylinders which are embedded with seeds using a cellulose liquid.

Is it possible to «grow a frock from a vat of liquid» using cellulose - spinning bacteria?

We then chose highly insulated components on all sides (including R - 10 windows), using cellulose insulation for the most part, for its low cost and environmental impact.

Those promoting biofuels plead using cellulose feedstocks rather than grain or corn based feedstocks, however, the pilot projects to convert cellulose feedstocks to biofuel require multiple technical breakthroughs which may not be possible.

Biocellulose is a super fine natural fiber that has been bioengineered and woven together using cellulose from plant material such as coconut husks.

The authors report that in laboratory tests using cellulose as a model indoor material exposed to smoke, levels of newly formed TSNAs detected on cellulose surfaces were 10 times higher than those originally present in the sample following exposure for three hours to a «high but reasonable» concentration of nitrous acid (60 parts per billion by volume).

The Cambridge team, working with researchers from Aalto University in Finland, mimicked the structure of chitin using cellulose, which is non-toxic, abundant, strong and bio-compatible.

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

It is using cellulose films and origami - style packaging for its chocolates.

If I had done the over-roofing at the same time I probably would have used cellulose in the rafter cavities.

MAKAR use cellulose and sheeps» wool insulation as an alternative means of achiving good energy performance.

I use cellulose wall paper paste and use a flat smoother thing to remove all the bubbles.

Not exact matches

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.

At one point I heard them discuss how they could make a bomb using garden fertilizer for nitrogen, cellulose and battery acid.

Cermount produces tri-layer stand up pouch using renewable cellulose and sugar cane.

Andy Sweetman from Futamura will discuss the growing use of cellulose - based biopolymers in flexible packaging systems.

As the global leader for renewable and compostable packaging films and cellulose casings, Futamura is dedicated to providing high quality speciality products that enhance the lives of the people who use them.

Two hydrocolloids, xanthan gum and HPMC, a derivative of cellulose, were also used to help bind the other ingredients together, mainly because of their strong water binding abilities.

Single - use liners are made of cellulose and are both flushable and biodegradable; they are often referred to as rice paper liners.

They are made from natural cotton and cellulose pulp and can be used over and over again.

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!

Using compact florescent bulbs, compostable bubble wrap, vegetable cellulose bags, and reusable cloth bags when shopping.

We've used yeast to convert plant cellulose and starch into biofuels like ethanol for decades; however, the process still isn't efficient, and scientists are genetically altering yeast to change that.

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.

Cellulose fibers from wood, cotton, and linen are mostly used as such, but can also be chemically modified to make rayon, viscose, and other textiles.

A hydrogel containing the bacteria could be used to fabricate cellulose dressings in the exact shape of a body part or organ based on a CT scan, Rühs says.

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).

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

That's because engineers must remove one of wood's key components, known as lignin, to get to the sugary cellulose that's used for fuels.

In addition, compressed cellulose aerogels can be used to plug life - threatening wounds such as a gunshot or stabbing lesion by injecting them into the wound cavity.

Researchers used experimental data to create a 23.7 - million atom biomass model featuring cellulose (purple), lignin (brown), and enzymes (green).

The researchers made their ionic liquids using furfural, vanillin and p - anisaldehyde, which are aromatic aldehydes derived from lignin and cellulose.

Dr Sameer Rahatekar, lead author from the University's Advanced Composite Centre for Innovation and Science (ACCIS), added: «We used ionic liquids for the first time to produce cellulose and silk scaffolds for stem cells differentiation.

The EPSRC - funded study, published in Biomacromolecules and undertaken by University of Bristol researchers, explored the feasibility of using natural fibres such as silk and cellulose as stem cell scaffolds — the matrix to which stem cells can cling to as they grow.

A fungus that plagued GI's during World War II by eating shirts and tent cloth might be put to use to create biofuels from cellulose.

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.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

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.

However, that lignin needs to be extracted in order to reach the energy - rich cellulose that is used to make biofuels.

The cellulose, which is now much easier to process, is then easily filtered from the mixture for use in the next biofuel production steps.

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.

But the process can use almost any sugar, whether direct sucrose from sugarcane or the polysaccharides derived from breaking down cellulose in water.

The researchers investigated a novel technique using a pre-cut circle of cellulose - cotton paper.

Using tiny strands of cellulose, or cellulose nanofibrils, they were able to achieve the same ultra-white effect in a flexible membrane.

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

The organism uses a surprisingly small number of genes to produce its cellulose - munching enzymes.

It chewed up the cloth and used special enzymes to convert the indigestible cellulose into simple sugars.

AE Biofuels uses an enzyme - based approach to the production of cellulosic ethanol and has designed our process to be integrated with existing corn ethanol production, in addition to building cellulose - only plants.

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.