Science news articles about 'renewable raw materials'

  • Renewable Furniture Finish Made From Sugars and Vegetable Oils

    ... vegetable oils? Researchers can show how it’s done: They have developed a furniture varnish containing roughly 50% renewable raw materials that offers the same hard-wearing quality as ...
  • Nature’s own chemical plant

    ... . However, this fossil fuel is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. Renewable raw materials are an alternative. But can the likes of bioethanol be obtained from sources other than foods such as ...
  • Acrylic glass made of sugar

    ... worldwide is searching for suitable biological processes, so that in future, renewable raw materials can also be used as a basis for MMA synthesis. The mutase presented here provides the solution: an ...
  • Toys made of liquid wood

    ... is that this bio-plastic, known as ARBOFORM®, is made of one hundred percent renewable raw materials and is therefore not reliant on petroleum. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical ...

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