Indian scientists develop new process to manufacture celltlose nanofibre from banan waste

摘要

Banans and plantains, described as common man's food or grown abundantly in almost all tropical countries. India produces about 15% of the word's total production of banana and plantain fruits. The banana/platain plants produce a lot of waste. Scientists have been working at how to put tonnes of banana waste to good use. Prof Varkey Mathew, He-ad of Department of Chemistry, Baselius College, Kottayam and his team of researchers, have developed a new technology for manufacture of cellulose nanofibre from the waste of banana and plantain plants.