Link: A ‘Paperless World’ – Why It Still Hasn’t Happened

 
Positives for the paper industry in 2018 have included the book emerging as a new trend, not just a one year fluke. And could it be more than just books?

1. Adult magazine print has increased for the first time in a generation. 
2. Readership of books is growing among a number of generations - and in paperback no less. Youth involvement. 
3. Electronic reading pads like the Amazon Kindle - once thought of as the next big thing is arguably seeming more and more relegated to history as the company continues to build into retail technology over "igadget" technology. 
 

Link: The Future of Green Offices May Be Rewritable Paper
 By vital  Paper, R&D
(January 10, 2017) Scientists have hacked a standard inkjet printer to create multicolor images that can be erased and reprinted eight times on the same sheet of paper.
A team of Chinese researchers recently combined some nifty chemistry with a standard inkjet printer to create multicolor images that can be printed and erased eight times using a single sheet of rewritable paper. The findings ["Dynamic metal-ligand coordination for multicolour and water-jet rewritable paper"] were reported in the journal Nature Communications.
To read complete article Go To: The Future of Green Offices May Be Rewritable Paper (Source: seeker.com / Nature Communications)
Cover Image: Structure and multicolor printing of rewritable paper.
A. schematic illustrations of four-layer structure used to create the rewritable paper based on L 1.
B. Colorful image of a flower drawn by different metal salts aqueous solution as ink. Scale bar = 1 cm.
C. An image of trees printed using a customized black inkjet cartridge filled with FeCl2 aqueous solution. Scale bar = 1 cm.
D. Colorful printing of the badge of Institute of Advanced Materials using an inkjet cartridge filled with FeCl2, Zn(NO3)2 and Co(NO3)2, respectively. Scale bar = 1 cm. Courtesy: Nature Communications

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