Biodegradable materials offer a possible way to reduce the environmental impact associated with single-use medical devices ...

Researchers have developed a wearable material that may help dramatically reduce the risk of a concussion, suggests a new ...

The remarkable achievement was led by Beatrice Britton, a chemistry student at UCL, who, alongside her team, engineered a material approximately ... The creation of these starch-based nanofibers ...

Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have made a major breakthrough in sustainable electronics by developing new nanocomposite films made from starch instead of petroleum-based materials, ...

Ohio State researchers develop a new material that could reduce concussion risk by absorbing 70% of impact force.

The company began producing starch-based isosorbide last November ... used in a number of biodegradable materials, for the joint development projects with Nano Tim. The two companies are looking ...

and starch based biodegradable resins. For example, nano cellulose + PLA is a 100 % nature derived material with no petroleum, but this material is a little brittle and breaks easily. Whereas ...

Design studio Tomorrow Machine has created a biodegradable juice bottle made from a potato starch-based material that can be peeled away like fruit skin and then eaten, composted or dissolved.

Starch-based plastics, which are derived from treated starch from plants, may not be as safe or environmentally benign as previously assumed. Composed mainly of starch and typically blended with ...