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.
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