{"id":137712,"date":"2010-01-04T22:06:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2010-01-04T22:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T03:06:01","slug":"plastics-there%e2%80%99s-a-great-future-in-ncc-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/137712","title":{"rendered":"Plastics! There\u2019s a great future in NCC plastics!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From CBC news “Company aims to remould plastics industry with nano-crystalline cellulose from trees<\/a><\/strong>“,<\/p>\n

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Faster cars, compostable plastics, ultra-hard iridescent coatings: these are some of the potential uses of nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC).<\/strong> It’s a new material produced from wood cellulose, using a cost-effective method developed by researchers at FP Innovations, a non-profit forest industry research consortium based in Montreal.<\/p>\n

NCC has many unusual properties, in addition to having all the biodegradable attributes associated with its plant-based source.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Materials scientists are in awe of NCC’s extraordinary potential \u2014 among its many attributes, it’s strong, lightweight, can conduct light and electricity, has anti-microbial properties, can be embedded safely in body tissue, and even has self-cleaning characteristics. In toxicity tests conducted for Environment Canada, NCC was found to be environmentally benign and no more toxic than salt.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it has a pleasing iridescence.<\/p>\n

“When NCC is applied in layers on a surface, it can change colour with the angle, like a bird’s plumage,<\/strong>” says Dr. Richard Berry, lead scientist and co-ordinator of the nanotechnology initiative at FP Innovations. Materials can be made in various colours without the use of dyes and chemicals.<\/p>\n

“NCC is beautiful,” says Orlando Rojas, chair of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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From CBC news “Company aims to remould plastics industry with nano-crystalline cellulose from trees“, Faster cars, compostable plastics, ultra-hard iridescent coatings: these are some of the potential uses of nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC). It’s a new material produced from wood cellulose, using a cost-effective method developed by researchers at FP Innovations, a non-profit forest industry research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}