Tag: bio-based plastic
Living Plastic Houses Bacterial Spores That Help It Break Down
A new type of bioplastic could help reduce the plastic industry’s environmental footprint. Researchers led by the University of California San Diego have developed...
Research Team Develops Process for Bio-Based Nylon
Electrons and microbes are the decisive factor in this
Research Team Develops Process for Bio-Based Nylon: Until now, nylon has been produced from petroleum-based raw materials....
Leaf-inspired bioplastic shrugs off liquids and biodegrades in soil
By Ben Coxworth
February 09, 2022
If you're designing a plastic for applications such as food packaging, you want it to stay clean but you don't want it to...
Alternative for petroleum polycarbonate
The Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) has developed a bio-polycarbonate which has been monopolized by Japan, and has opened up the possibility...
All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic
A research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has developed an efficient process for breaking down any plastic waste to a molecular level....
Bioplastic derived from cactus leaves
Sandra Pascoe Ortiz, a chemical engineering professor at the University of the Valley of Atemajac, in Zapopan, Mexico, has created bioplastic derived from the...
Kumovis High Temperature PEEK Medical Printer
Last year at Formnext I spotted a young team standing around a 3D printer. This team was Kumovis. Kumovis launched a medical high-temperature FDM...
New bioplastic food packaging degrades in a couple of years
Group of scientists at Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). Lithuania has created biodegradable plastic, which decays in a compost bin in a couple of...
Japanese Company Improves Bioplastic with Nanocellulose
One of the hurdles that come with the development of new bioplastics has been the lack of mechanical strength compared to traditional plastic.
With the...
Intelligent Healing for Complex Wounds
A bioelectronic interface could speed the body’s natural healing processes to deliver faster recovery from wounds with fewer complications
Blast injuries, burns, and other wounds...
