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 ...

To receive the Vogue Business newsletter, sign up here. As efforts to crack down on plastic pollution grow, sustainability experts have been pushing for fashion brands to use less plastic-based ...

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 ...

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 ...

USING carrots to create concrete, turning wood into plastic, or even compressing it into a “super wood” that is as light and strong as titanium might sound like a series of almost Frankensteinish ...

Following the successful utilisation of renewable raw materials in racing cars, the BMW Group says it will now harness natural fibre composites for its series-production models. BMW maintains it has ...