Identifying Structural Motifs in Polysaccharides for Nanotechnology and Advanced Fibre Processing

管理良好的森林是储存现代碳的极其重要的资源，可以用来制造可持续消费的材料，而不与农业用地竞争。这个想法对地球的健康至关重要，因为十几年后又会有10亿人居住在地球上，需要食物和能源资源。此外，古代埋藏的碳释放到大气中，全球变暖，以及水力压裂法带来的环境问题，都增加了人们对化石技术使用的关注。消费者对减少对环境有害的技术和可以生物生产的高质量材料的兴趣，成为这项发现提案的动力，该提案旨在发展从森林资源中创造高性能纤维和新型纳米粒子的科学。

Well-managed forests are extremely important resources of stored modern-era carbon that can be used to create materials for sustainable consumption that do not compete with agricultural lands. This idea is central to the health of the earth as another billion people will inhabit the planet in a dozen years requiring both food and energy resources. Furthermore, the release of ancient buried carbon into the atmosphere, global warming, and the environmental issues with fracking have increased concern in the use of fossil technologies. Consumer interest in mitigating environmentally malignant technologies and the high quality materials that can be produced biologically, serve as the impetus for this Discovery Proposal to develop the science to create high performance fibres and new nanoparticles from forest resources.