{"id":215559,"date":"2025-06-07T01:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-bio-based-hot-glue-made-from-industrial-leftovers-outperforms-commercial-adhesives"},"modified":"2025-06-07T01:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T06:03:23","slug":"new-bio-based-hot-glue-made-from-industrial-leftovers-outperforms-commercial-adhesives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/new-bio-based-hot-glue-made-from-industrial-leftovers-outperforms-commercial-adhesives","title":{"rendered":"New bio-based hot glue made from industrial leftovers outperforms commercial adhesives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-bio-based-hot-glue-made-from-industrial-leftovers-outperforms-commercial-adhesives2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new bio-based hot glue derived from a byproduct of the wood pulp industry beats traditional epoxy resins and commercial hot-melt glues in terms of adhesive performance.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Beijing Forestry University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-025-01579-9\" target=\"_blank\">developed a hot-melt adhesive<\/a> derived from xylan\u2014a complex sugar found in plant cell walls\u2014that can be applied in a molten state and reused over 10 times without any loss of its original strength.<\/p>\n<p>The synthesis strategy was reported in Nature Sustainability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new bio-based hot glue derived from a byproduct of the wood pulp industry beats traditional epoxy resins and commercial hot-melt glues in terms of adhesive performance. Researchers from Beijing Forestry University developed a hot-melt adhesive derived from xylan\u2014a complex sugar found in plant cell walls\u2014that can be applied in a molten state and reused [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215559","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}