Hair conditioner made using lignin, a polymer found in wood and bark, works just as well as a commercial product - as long as you don't mind the smell ...

The new filters are impregnated with plant-based raw materials, manufactured using renewable energy and packaged in ...

When trees inhale carbon, some of it is used to build complex structural molecules like cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Cellulose—durable, tightly packed strands of the simple sugar glucose—form ...

Lignin is a polymer that helps stabilize the structure of cell walls in plants and also aids in the transport of water and nutrients. Typically, when you engineer wood to be stronger and more ...

Although the components of wood – cellulose and lignin – are exceedingly cheap and plentiful, combining these into a wood-like structure is not straightforward, despite many attempts to make ...

Their best guess is linen lignin cells within the wood are melting, interlocking and rejoining — resulting in a surprisingly strong bond. They say further research is to be performed but the ...

A study from our group spanning 18 months found no significant differences in the extent of decomposition between field-grown wild-type and lignin-modified poplar wood; indeed, the variation ...

The research team, led by Mika Sipponen at Stockholm University, sought to explore lignin, a common and renewable component in wood biomass, as a multifunctional component for hair conditioning.

After growing inside a greenhouse for six months, the CRISPR trees showed significant improvements in desirable wood properties compared to wild type trees. In the most drastic cases, the lignin ...

In a test of antioxidant activity, hair treated with the lignin gel outperformed hair treated with store-bought conditioner. That result suggests that the wood-based product may be better able to ...