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.

While cellulose is a well-known natural polysaccharide predominantly found in the cell walls of plants, chitin constitutes the backbone of the cell walls of fungi and is finding renewed interest in ...