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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