Components made using the cellulose-based composite weigh about 10 percent less than the non-cellulose part.
These cellulose-based bioplastics have conventionally been utilized in stationery, toys and household goods.
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For example, food vendors in the main Olympic Park will use compostable packaging made mainly from starch and cellulose-based bio-plastics.
The U.S. Department of Energy contracted with two enzyme companies, Genencor and Novozymes, to try to reduce the cost of cellulose-dismantling enzymes.
While no cellulose-based products are currently used in Ford vehicles, the company tested a prototype armrest and determined that there are multiple possible applications for cellulose use in both the interior and exterior.
Accordingly, Dr Lin and his colleagues tried to build up covalent bonds between the layers of a water-repellent, or hydrophobic, material called cellulose acetate butyrate, which is used to make water-resistant fabrics.
Next the company converted the microbe to produce means to create ethanol fuel from plant cellulose, and following scale-up and cost problems, abandoned that dream to focus upon higher cost chemicals used in cosmetics.
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As an alternative to petroleum-based components, cellulose is the plastic's major ingredient.
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The husk, the outer covering of the barley grain, is placed in a bi-fermentor which transforms the cellulose into methane gas.
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After enhancing its reactivity, cardanol is chemically bonded with cellulose, which produces a durable thermo-plastic that is strong, heat resistant, water resistant and non-crystalline (short molding time), due to the bonded cardanol's unique molecular structure consisting of flexible and rigid parts.
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Current cellulose based plastics include large amounts of petroleum-based additives, which results in a low plant component ratio.
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The technique works by focusing high-powered microwaves on plant-based material, transforming the tough cellulose molecules of the plant matter into volatile gases.
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By most standards, the hope that is such first-generation fuel additives are supplanted by next-generation ones, or those produced from cellulose.
That is one reason why in April Metsa-Botnia, a Finnish company, began building a cellulose plant on the Uruguay River bordering Argentina.
Suffice to say you eat cellulose every time you eat a salad or fruit, or any other plant-derived food.
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The cellulose fibers used during this partnership came from sustainably grown and harvested trees and also from by-products like wood chips and sawdust.
They immersed films made of cellulose acetate butyrate in solutions of phenyl azido and silica (which is positively charged) and phenyl azido and poly-allylamine hydrochloride (which is negatively charged).
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