Professor Marcus Foston, of Washington University St. Louis, helped develop a new process using byproducts from soybean oil, ...
Haipeng Yu, Zhao, and other researchers studied the plastic-like application of bamboo by developing a non-toxic alcohol solvent base to dissolve bamboo cellulose down to a molecular level. From there ...
According to Interesting Engineering, the U.S. National Science Foundation has granted a research and development group $7 ...
Soy proteins are used in plant-based natural polymers meant to eventually supplant plastic materials. But to compete with the ...
SEATTLE (KOMO) — New bioplastics that degrade in the same time frame as a banana peel have been developed at the University of Washington (UW). Researchers used heat and pressure to make bioplastics ...