Apr 04, 2024: Airy cellulose from a 3D printer (Nanowerk News) Ultra-light, thermally insulating and biodegradable: Cellulose-based aerogels are versatile.Empa researchers have succeeded in 3D ...

The efficient use of cellulose—the primary plant scaffold and a major natural building block—could address many issues associated with petroleum-based polymers across various industries. In the search ...

An ear cartilage model, made from the 3D-printed cellulose composite material. ETH Zurich/Empa. View 5 Images 1 / 5. A filigree mesh made from the 3D-printed cellulose composite material.

Cellulose – the most abundant organic compound on the planet – has successfully been used to 3D print a range of objects, including some that are electrically conductive. It's being pitched as ...

Researchers from the University of Chalmers created 3D objects using cellulose obtained from wood pulp. Skip to main content. Menu Digital Trends ...

Researchers in Switzerland have developed a new method for 3D printing complex objects with a higher cellulose content than has previously been achieved. Found in trees and plants, cellulose has ...

Foams have numerous possible potential applications, for example, ranging from the automotive, household and mechanical ...

Although the components of wood – cellulose and lignin – are exceedingly cheap and plentiful, combining these into a wood-like structure is not straightforward, despite many attempts to… ...

And their cellulose-based, 3D-printable aerogel can do even more. The miracle material was created under the leadership of Deeptanshu Sivaraman, Wim Malfait and Shanyu Zhao from Empa's Building Energy ...

The 3-D molecular model of a plant cellulose synthase no longer remains elusive, thanks to research from NC State University.

Ultra-light, thermally insulating and biodegradable: Cellulose-based aerogels are versatile. Empa researchers have succeeded in 3D printing the natural material into complex shapes that could one ...

Cellulose used to fabricate large 3D objects. The researchers, from ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), used a series of novel techniques to ...