Printing cellulose (IMAGE)
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A new woody composite, engineered by a team at MIT, is as hard as bone and as tough as aluminum, and it could pave way for naturally-derived plastics. This image shows a tooth printed by the team resting on a background of wood cells.
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Image courtesy of A. John Hart, Abhinav Rao; edited by MIT News.
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