Researchers built a fully plant-based plastic called celluplastic from wood-derived cellulose that matches the strength and flexibility of conventional fossil plastics, while remaining biodegradable and recyclable in plain water for over 100 cycles with no meaningful performance loss.
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Celluplastic achieves tensile strength above 30 MPa and strain above 100%, matching conventional fossil plastics in both toughness and flexibility.
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The material was recycled in an aqueous (water-based) closed-loop process for over 100 cycles with no substantial loss of mechanical performance.
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The bioplastic is constructed entirely from wood-derived cellulose components: microfibrillated cellulose networks, dialcohol cellulose nanorods, and modified cellulose molecular chains, requiring no synthetic cross-linking agents.
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