Green paint from trees
Learn more about how the natural products team is offering a renewable alternative to petrochemical paints.
The problem
Commercial paint is made from petrochemicals and is not a renewable product.
Our solution
Invented a new cellulose-based biopolymer as the film-forming component of paint. The synthesis used as a key ingredient a small molecule that can be generated from cellulose itself making the material “doubly-renewable.”
The impact
A patent protecting the intellectual property was completed by our industry partners and more research by our collaborators is seeing cellulose-based products entering commercialisation stages.
Research team
Natural products team
Isolation, characterization, and modification of polysaccharides in human health
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