In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell walls—a team of Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have captured images of the microscopic ...

Cellulose is everywhere. In fact, it is the most abundant organic molecule on the Earth! It’s in (but not limited to) our food, clothing, and plastics, and the cellulose compound nitrocellulose is ...

Recently, the stretchability of ionogels has attracted considerable attention. This is attributed to its essential role in ...

The team's most recent study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, describes the molecular process by which cellobiose—a two-sugar fragment of cellulose that is made ...

Cellulose is a very tough molecule that is used to build the cell wall of plant cells. Plant cells can also combine sugars with nitrates to make amino acids and use these to produce proteins.

Bacterial cellulose (BC), synthesized by certain bacteria ... regeneration and have identified for the first time the precise molecular mechanism underlying the process. Wounded leaves of the ...

Reconstruction of a plant cell (xylem) with its cellulose fibers labeled red (left ... reached their goal of full 3D reconstructions of molecular orientation and position.