Cellulose acetate was first prepared by Paul Schützenberger in 1865. It took another 29 years before Charles Cross and Edward Bevan patented a process for its manufacture. At about the same time, ...

Cellulose Acetate Butyrate (CAB) is an amorphous, transparent thermoplastic quite like cellulose acetate but more expensive and tougher with improved weathering resistance and lower moisture ...

Biopolymers have a variety of possible applications due to their renewable characteristics and their potential biodegradability. Biopolymers are polymers that are either bio-based, biodegradable, or ...

Sharmon Lebby is a writer and sustainable fashion stylist who studies and reports on the intersections of environmentalism, fashion, and BIPOC communities. Acetate is a substance in many common items, ...

The authors investigate the effects of a polyethylene glycol plasticizer and water on cellulose acetate film properties. Cellulose acetate (CA) is a polymeric excipient widely used in pharmaceutical ...

Sometimes I’m asked how the ideas for these columns come about. In this case, it was seeing a discarded overhead projector. That brought back memories of my first teaching experience in 1973 when ...

Woods Hole, MA. (December 8, 2021) -- Cellulose diacetate (CDA), a bio-based plastic widely used in consumer goods, disintegrates, and degrades in the ocean far quicker than previously assumed, ...