-
Press Review posted an update 2 weeks ago
New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
Research
New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminumJennifer Chu | MIT News Office The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics. 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 […]