Cellulose acetate was first prepared by Paul Schützenberger in 1865. It took another 29 years before Charles Cross and Edward Bevan patented a process for its manufacture. At about the same time, ...

Engineers at MIT have developed a way to use plant cellulose as a feedstock for 3D printers, providing another renewable, biodegradable alternative to popular petroleum-based polymers like ABS ...

Cellulose Acetate Butyrate (CAB) is an amorphous, transparent thermoplastic quite like cellulose acetate but more expensive and tougher with improved weathering resistance and lower moisture ...

As previously discussed, nanotechnology is now used to produce materials with extremely high surface-to-mass and surface-to-volume ratios. Electrospinning is a well-known technique for the preparation ...