An EU-funded project has shown that transparent solar cells can turn modern office buildings into vital, urban energy hubs.

"It presented the possibility that transparent silicon solar cells can be used in various industries such as small devices as well as buildings and automobile glass." To demonstrate that ...

Plant cells are surrounded by an intricately structured protective coat called the cell wall. It’s built of cellulose microfibrils intertwined with polysaccharides like hemicellulose or pectin.

For the first time, high-resolution time-lapse videos of tiny bits of living plants show how they assemble their protective cell walls, researchers report March 21 in Science Advances. The image ...

In a groundbreaking study on the synthesis of cellulose—a major constituent of all plant cell ... new cell walls to be laid down by protoplast cells. "This provided little to no background ...