Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new composite material using wood pulp and dried pieces of an invasive exotic pest called tunicates.

Vireo Advisor’s Dr. Jo Anne Shatkin and Dr. Kimberly Ong co-authored “Current characterization methods for cellulose nanomaterials” which was led by Johan Foster of Virginia Tech and Robert Moon of the USFS Forest Products Laboratory and just published in Chemical Society Reviews.