Wear Your Wine? Wine Leather Offers Vegan and Eco-Friendly Alternative to Leather
In Italy, fashion is getting a new material in town and shoppers will soon be able to buy prototypes of garments, bags and other...
Black phosphorus and NIR light irradiation helps repair bone defects
In China, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and City University of Hong Kong developed an implantable bio-composite made of black phosphorus nanomaterial...
Researchers program biomaterials with ‘logic gates’ that release therapeutics in response to environmental triggers
In Washington, University of Washington scientists built and tested a new biomaterial-based hydrogel delivery system that will encase a desired cargo, like drug treatments,...
Keeping grass green in more ways than one with biobased controls
In Indiana, Purdue University researchers and the USDA Agricultural Research Service found that a fungus called Metarhizium brunneum, does a great job of killing...
Kraig Biocraft begins spider silk operations in Vietnam
In Michigan, Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. a developer of spider silk based fibers, announced it has been issued its long awaited Enterprise Registration Certificate...
Distinguishing denim design – Levi’s uses “cottonized hemp”
In California, well-known jean company, Levi’s, is a new form of “cottonized hemp” denim in their spring designs. The hemp has been altered to...
Kansas company creates more comfortable prosthetics using hemp fiber
In Kansas, a company called Human Plant Solutions has developed lower-extremity prosthetics using a hemp fibers.
The company was cofounded in 2017 by medical...
Dupont Wins European Bio-based Materials Company of the Year for Biomaterial Innovations
In the United Kingdom, DuPont Industrial Biosciences won the 2017 European Bio-based Materials Company of the Year for its work on bio-based materials innovations...
BAUX launches 100% biobased acoustical panels
In Sweden, BAUX launched their latest innovation, the first 100% bio-based acoustical panels, which were developed in collaboration with design studio Form Us With...
Aries GREEN Biochar launches retail sales
In Tennessee, Aries GREEN Biochar, which has been certified by both the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label and the International...