When mushrooms make the news, it's often for grim reasons—a mysterious poisoning, toxic species in the bush, or high-profile ...

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 a ...

Modern society is highly dependent on the production and use of traditional building materials, which contribute to ...

The sources of natural polymers can be plant-based, animal-based, and marine-derived. For instance, plant-based polymers like cellulose are widely used in paper and textile industries for their ...

A promising new material created from plants could help replace the single-use plastics that dominate our everyday lives. Developed by researchers in Japan, this cellulose-based paperboard is durable, ...

Interest in building with earthen and other natural materials — such as adobe — spiked in the wake of Eaton and Palisades fires. Architects and engineers say that L.A. County’s approval process for ...

Leather has one of the highest carbon footprints of any material used by the fashion industry, putting it high on the agenda for brands to find alternatives to meet their sustainability targets. Plant ...

For years, plant-based fashion materials were promoted as a sustainable breakthrough. Their rapid collapse tells a more ...

"At this point, we've merely confirmed that our materials are cytocompatible, meaning they are non-harmful to cells," said Wooley. "This may matter if the materials were to be used in implantable or ...

For decades, our society has predominantly embraced an extractivist approach when formulating models for material manufacturing across diverse industries. While we now know that this model is ...