Industrial waste is reused to produce alternatives to plastic
Applied Material & Interfaces. “We set out to fill the HMPC matrix with bacterial cellulose nanocrystals in order to enhance its properties. We also wanted to create greener protocols for the development of novel composites, from the material itself to its origin, so we included the reuse of industrial waste in the project,” said Márcia Regina de Moura Aouada, a co-author of the article. Aouada has a PhD in chemistry from UNESP, where she teaches and is a researcher at the Center for Deve...
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