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InspirationNew plant-derived sustainable ‘plastic’ is tough as bone and hard as aluminum

New plant-derived sustainable ‘plastic’ is tough as bone and hard as aluminum

The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells.

A single wood cell wall is constructed from fibers of cellulose­—nature’s most abundant polymer, and the main structural component of all plants and algae. Within each fiber are reinforcing cellulose nanocrystals, or CNCs, which are …

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