The researchers, led by a team from Wuhan University in China, combined both chitin (derived from squid bone) and cellulose ...

Microplastics are everywhere. They have been found on the peak of Mount Everest and in creatures inhabiting the deepest ...

The health risks of microplastics are becoming more clear as scientists develop a pollution sponge made from squid ...

(A) Self-assembled biomass foam preparation from cellulose and β-chitin without crosslinking. (B) Microplastic removal using foam through multiple interactions: physical interception, electrostatic ...

"Few practical technologies" for removal of microplastics Cellulose and chitin are two very abundant molecules in nature and are already often used to help cleanse pollutants from wastewater.

The foam, which is made from a self-assembled network of chitin and cellulose obtained from biomass wastes, has been successfully field-tested in four natural aquatic environments. The amount of ...

Called Ct-Cel, the sponge consists of chitin and cellulose. While the researchers used cotton plants to obtain the sponge's cellulose—a carbohydrate found in all plants, making it the most ...

Researchers from the University of Wuhan and Guangxi University produced the fibrous foam by combining cellulose fibres from cotton and the tough biopolymer chitin, which forms a squid's skeleton.

A research team from Wuhan University used chitin from squid bones and cellulose from cotton – two organic compounds known for eliminating pollution from wastewater – to create a biodegradable ...

researchers detail the invention of a fabricated foam that relies solely on hydrogen bonding between protonated chitin nanofiber sheets and cellulose fibers. Experiments measured adsorption ...