Plant cell walls are primarily made of cellulose, which is the most abundant macromolecule on Earth. Cellulose fibers are long, linear polymers of hundreds of glucose molecules. These fibers ...

The first man-made plastic was made in 1862 using cellulose, the main component of plant cell walls, pre-dating the petroleum-based plastics that litter our planet today. Now, scientists are ...

A paper describing this work is published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. Cellulose is the Earth's most abundant and widespread natural polysaccharide, commonly found in plant ...