Recycled Denim Finds New Life as Cartilage

Recycled Denim Finds New Life as Cartilage
Aug-09-18
An innovative new textile recycling method could turn old denim jeans into artificial cartilage.

The process, developed by a team from Deakin’s School of Engineering, involves first treating the jeans with a specialized solvent created by the researchers to reduce the cotton material to cellulose. The cellulose was then used to form an aerogel that displayed a unique porous structure with vertical, nanoscopic tunnels throughout. The team believes the tunnels were created because of the denim aerogel’s sticky nature, resulting in a material ideal for use as artificial cartilage.

Recycled Denim Finds New Life as Cartilage


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Nanoscopic tunneling,might provide the answere I need for artificial nerve creation, the problem has been the bi-transitional electrical agent crystalizing inside the body,moving away or penetrating associated organs. Can you provide full details of the parameters in totum to validate if it would provide suitable answeres to the two way electrical nerve combulation. Congrates on your alcohol denim cellulose acheivement.
Posted by Stephen Fitton on August 15, 2018

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