Feng Jiang, associate professor in the faculty of forestry, and doctoral student Huayu Liu. (Credit: Lou Bosshart/UBC) Rayon has been popular for decades because of its soft cotton-like properties, ...

A UBC team has developed a cleaner, more sustainable way to produce rayon—a fabric that’s been popular for over a century but has long relied on harsh chemical processes. Traditional rayon production ...

To make silk, the silk worm reduces the cellulose in mulberry leaves to a protein liquid which it spins into a cocoon. Result of man’s learning to imitate this technique is the 45-year-old rayon ...

Sappi paper company announced Thursday that it will stop making pulp at its Cloquet mill and start making chemical cellulose that's made into a fabric for clothing, wet wipes and other consumer ...