{
  "id": 14457118,
  "title": "Engineering Outstanding Water Retention and Toughness through Gradient Cellular Architecture and Delignification: A Case Study of Palm Fronds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/14/engineering-outstanding-water-retention-and-toughness-through",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-14T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.13.758466v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Delignification can engineer wood into high-performance multi-scaled materials, building up from its elementary fibrils of nanocellulose across its micro-scaled cellular architecture. However, the potential to engineer other, structurally diverse, non-woody biomass remains largely unexplored. Non-wood plants can add additional hierarchical structures at the mm- and cm-scale. Here, we explore such…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}