The millimeter-thick paperboard behaves just like plastic; it's strong, transparent, shapeable—and can hold boiling water.

They describe the material as tPB, a transparent 3D material made solely of cellulose. Testing of the material showed it worked as well as standard drinking straws, with no signs of the collapse ...

The fact that it is transparent, biodegradable in a natural environment, and plastic-like is already fantastic, but there is more. The researchers have shown that boiling water can be poured into ...