DURING the past thirty years or so, intensive investigation of cellulose by various physical methods has directed attention repeatedly to the possible existence of supermolecular units of structure ...

(Nanowerk News) The Paper and Fibre Research Institute (PFI), a leading cellulose research facility in Trondheim, Norway, has invested in new ion-milling equipment and scanning electron microscope for ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

This transmission electron microscope image shows cellulose nanocrystals, tiny structures derived from renewable sources that might be used to create a new class of biomaterials with many potential ...

The structure of the enzyme that makes cellulose has been uncovered by researchers, a finding that could lead to easier ways of breaking down plant materials to make biofuels and other products and ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The construction of a new multimodal optical microscope, SCATTIRSTORM, that could enable more efficient bioenergy production, is the focus of a three-year, $1.5 million, U.S.

Last week two women scientists explained how plants build the cellulose membranes that form cell walls, a process of vital interest to textile technologists. Unable to see how plants manufacture their ...

New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals how plants create the load-bearing structures that let them grow - much like how building crews frame a house. Funded by the U.S ...

Material engineers at Purdue University are developing methods to use the nanocrystals that naturally give cellulose in trees and plants strength, lightweight, and resilience to strengthen ...

A new hybrid microscope for the first time allows scientists to simultaneously image the full 3D orientation and position of an ensemble of molecules, such as labeled proteins inside cells. (Nanowerk ...

Artistic rendering of cellulose regenerating on a plant protoplast cell surface with zoomed out view. Cellulose is synthesized by plasma membrane-bound enzyme complexes (green) and assembles into a ...