Growing cellulose from waste cotton
Broke down waste cotton textiles into sugars and used them to feed bacteria that make new cellulose.
Built / tested: cellulose mats from textile waste
As reported in: Hong, Guo, Zhang et al. (2012). Bacterial cellulose production from cotton-based waste textiles: Enzymatic saccharification enhanced by ionic liquid pretreatment. Bioresource Technology. doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2011.11.028
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