{"id":620333,"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.com\/index\/620333","title":{"rendered":"Plastics! There\u2019s a great future in NCC plastics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<p>From CBC news &#8220;<strong><a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2009\/12\/23\/f-nano-crystalline-cellulose-bio-plastic.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2009\/12\/23\/f-nano-crystalline-cellulose-bio-plastic.html\" >Company aims to remould plastics industry with nano-crystalline cellulose from trees<\/a><\/strong>&#8220;,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Faster cars, compostable plastics, ultra-hard iridescent coatings: these are some of the potential uses of nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC).<\/strong> It&#8217;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<p><strong>NCC has many unusual properties, in addition to having all the biodegradable attributes associated with its plant-based source.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials scientists are in awe of NCC&#8217;s extraordinary potential \u2014 among its many attributes, it&#8217;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<p>And it has a pleasing iridescence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>When NCC is applied in layers on a surface, it can change colour with the angle, like a bird&#8217;s plumage,<\/strong>&#8221; 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<p>&#8220;NCC is beautiful,&#8221; says Orlando Rojas, chair of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Posted in Canada, Science &amp; Technology  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/8783\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CBC news &#8220;Company aims to remould plastics industry with nano-crystalline cellulose from trees&#8220;, Faster cars, compostable plastics, ultra-hard iridescent coatings: these are some of the potential uses of nano-crystalline cellulose (NCC). It&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":780,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Bnn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}