A plant fibre can be compared to a composite material that is reinforced with cellulose fibrils (Figure 1) [1]. These are oriented helically at an angle called the microfibrillar angle. In a composite ...

ESA’s detailed testing of this natural-fibre composite has helped it find wider terrestrial uses in turn, including inside McLaren Racing’s Formula 1 cars. Fibres from the flax plant, cultivated in ...

Nisa Salim is national chair of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI) Carbon Division. The Bureau of Meteorology has warned Australia is facing one of the hottest summers on record. As the ...

Most of the microfibres polluting our oceans – which have long been assumed to be plastic – are actually natural fibres like cotton and wool. But we don’t yet know whether these fibres pose the same ...