SCIENTISTS UNLOCK SECRETS OF COTTON PROPERTIES
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
DYING companies may find commercially useful new information revealed about the molecular structure of cotton by the USA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). It and collaborators the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, and the Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France, has provided new information about hydrogen bonds that connect the building blocks of cellulose, the main molecule in cotton fibres and most other plant cell walls. The researchers used a neutron beam to study nanocrystals in cotton to make their discoveries. An ...
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