{"id":184440,"date":"2024-03-08T22:32:33","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mits-new-plant-based-material-could-replace-plastics"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:32:33","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T04:32:33","slug":"mits-new-plant-based-material-could-replace-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/mits-new-plant-based-material-could-replace-plastics","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s new plant-based material could replace plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-new-plant-based-material-could-replace-plastics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using cellulose from trees and a synthetic polymer, MIT researchers have created a material that \u201cis stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2022\/plant-derived-composite-0210\">university announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers hope their compound could lead to better, more sustainable plastics in the future. Currently, the material shrinks while drying, making printing anything large out of it difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you could avoid shrinkage, you could keep scaling up, maybe to the meter scale,\u201d said MIT\u2019s Abhinav Rao. \u201cThen, if we were to dream big, we could replace a significant fraction of plastics with cellulose composites.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using cellulose from trees and a synthetic polymer, MIT researchers have created a material that \u201cis stronger and tougher than some types of bone, and harder than typical aluminum alloys,\u201d the university announced. The researchers hope their compound could lead to better, more sustainable plastics in the future. Currently, the material shrinks while drying, making [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}