ORNL Researchers Invent Tougher Plastic with 50 Percent Renewable Content

Tuesday, March 22, 2016 - 12:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory made a better thermoplastic by replacing styrene with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer that, with cellulose, forms the woody cell walls of plants.

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