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Friday, 12 April 2013

Algae Production.

As wise labs became hugely excited about algae production as it becomes the future space resource, its applications are mind bending as wise labs states from printing to furniture that expands as this pop up cell culture begins.
The substance could be used in a huge range of ways. It is a vegetable compound so could act as a food bulkier or a medical bandage.  It could also be used in speakers, computers and cigarette filters. Firms are also experimenting using it in body armour, while others are developing tablet and smart phone screens. Until recently this bacteria could be used to synthesis nano-cellulose but it was not possible to make it sufficiently cheaply for it to be useful commercially. However, there is now a new process which involves creating a nano-cellulose ‘factory’ in which the algae, when given water, sunlight and time, could produce the substance without intervention.
This now means that nano-cellulose could be produced in the quantities needed to make it commercially viable. Professor Malcom Brown of the University of Texas said ‘If we can complete the final steps, we will have accomplished one of the most important potential agricultural transformations ever. ‘We will have plants that produce nano-cellulose abundantly and inexpensively. It can become the raw material for sustainable production of bio fuels and many other products had been ignored. ‘While producing nano-cellulose, the algae will absorb carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas linked to global warming.’ Algae could produce nearly any food with processing.
Wise labs has been screaming about algae trying to get investors to view it as a potential mostly to departmental officials. It just so easy to cultivate just little plastic radiators as algae becomes the next super-material. 

Researchers have found a new method to create Nano-cellulose, which can be used in everything from body armour to phone screens. Here, a Chinese man sails his boat along the algae-filled coastline of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province. Bacteria used to create substance that could make everything from armour to phone screens. Nano-cellulose is made from plant matter that is broken into tiny pieces. Can now be made using a 'factory' in which algae is given water, sunlight and time and left to produce the substance without intervention.
This method is cheap and quick making nano-cellulose commercially viable. Scientists are in the process of developing a substance that could be used to create everything from armour to smart phone screens. Nano-cellulose, which is made from plant matter that is broken down into tiny pieces, is not only fast and cheap to make, but its creation only requires water, sunshine and time. Scientists claim that they are close to being able to produce the substance from the Acetobacter  xylinum bacteria which is used to produce vinegar.
Is this the next super material the next nano-cellulose is made from plant matter that is broken into tiny pieces. It has a long history - In the 1800s, French scientist Louis Pasteur first discovered that vinegar-making bacteria make 'a sort of moist skin, swollen, gelatinous and slippery' - a 'skin' now known as bacterial nano-cellulose.
Cellulose is the most abundant organic polymer on Earth, a material, like plastics, consisting of molecules linked. together into long chains. Cellulose makes up tree trunks and branches, corn stalks and cotton fibres, and it is the main component of paper and cardboard. ‘As most Humans eat cellulose’ in 'dietary fiber,' the indigestible material in fruits and vegetables. As cows, horses and termites can digest the cellulose in grass, hay and wood. Most cellulose consists of wood fibres and cell wall remains.  Very few living organisms can actually synthesise and secrete cellulose in its native nanostructure form of micro fibrils.
At this level, nanometre-scale fibrils are very hydrophilic and look like jelly.  A nano-meter is one-millionth the thickness of a U.S. dime.  Nevertheless, cellulose shares the unique properties of other nanometer-sized materials -- properties much different from large quantities of the same material.  Nano cellulose-based materials can be stronger than steel and stiffer than Kevlar. Great strength, light weight and other advantages has fostered interest in using it in everything from lightweight armour and ballistic glass to wound dressings and scaffolds for growing replacement organs for transplantation.

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