US 11,807,760 B2
Biocomposite materials and related compositions, methods and systems
Eleftheria Roumeli, Pasadena, CA (US); Luca Bonanomi, Pasadena, CA (US); Chiara Daraio, Pasadena, CA (US); and Rodinde Hendrickx, Pasadena, CA (US)
Assigned to CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US)
Filed by CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Pasadena, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 24, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/911,269.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/865,506, filed on Jun. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0399474 A1, Dec. 24, 2020
Int. Cl. C08L 97/02 (2006.01); C08L 101/16 (2006.01); C08L 5/04 (2006.01); C08L 5/06 (2006.01); C08L 5/14 (2006.01)
CPC C08L 97/02 (2013.01) [C08L 5/04 (2013.01); C08L 5/06 (2013.01); C08L 5/14 (2013.01); C08L 101/16 (2013.01); C08L 2201/06 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A biocomposite comprising
compacted plant and/or algae cells having a water content of less than 15 wt %, the compacted plant and/or algae cells being poreless or having pores with a diameter of less than 10 μm,
the compacted plant and/or algae cells being in a lamellar stacked configuration with a plurality of lamellae arranged one above the other,
each lamella independently having a thickness of 20 nm to 5 μm, and comprising a semi-crystalline structure formed by cell walls of the compacted plant and/or algae cells,
the semi-crystalline structure having a crystalline component with a glucose-based biopolymer in a matrix of amorphous sugar-based biopolymers and/or phenol-based biopolymers of the cell walls.