L.A. County officials signaled interest in rebuilding in fire zones with natural materials, such as adobe, but advocates say ...

Sustainably produced, biodegradable materials are an important focus of modern materials science. However, when working with natural materials such as cellulose, lignin or chitin, researchers face ...

Bcomp is creating plant-based technical materials that rival Carbon's performance. Bcomp. Bcomp is engineering natural fibers that are super lightweight and so tough as to rival carbon-fiber ...

Drawing inspiration from the veinous ears of jackrabbits and elephants, Drexel University researchers have come up with a new ...

For consumers worried about the risks associated with using lithium-ion batteries—which are used in everything from phones to ...

The Korvaa Consortium tapped Modern Synthesis, Ecovative and Ourobio to develop the debut shoe made with mycelium, bacterial nanocellulose and PHAs.

"It is a noble and natural material that does not kill animals, does not cut down trees and isn't plastic either." The material has suddenly become highly sought after: in the six months up until ...

While the natural, cellulose-based textiles repeatedly disintegrated in 30-35 days, the oil-based and bio-based materials showed no sign of disintegration even after a total of 428 days.

And Tecla is made from clay, which, although natural, it’s not bio-based (meaning that it comes from something ... “But the fact that they 3D-printed a bio-based material in that scale—in ...