Green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has gained interest as a sustainable resource because it can be easily grown using CO₂ as a carbon source owing to its high CO₂ assimilating activity. Although the robustness of the cell wall of C. reinhardtii makes it difficult to extract its intracellular products, such property is beneficial when using the cell as an ingredient to fabricate “cell-plastic” in this study. The cell layer, which is a component of the cell-plastic, was prepared with an intercellular filler to connect each cell because C. reinhardtii is a single-cell strain. The cell layers were then repeatedly piled to increase the strength of the cell-plastic. To avoid slippage between the cell layers, they were covered with a small amount of a two-dimensional polymer to maintain the flat surface structure of the cell-plastic. Based on the evaluation, the cell-plastic has the potential to be a novel, sustainable plastic using ubiquitous green algal cells in nature.

绿藻衣藻（Chlamydomonas reinhardtii）作为一种可持续资源已经引起了人们的兴趣，因为它具有很高的CO ₂同化活性，因此很容易使用CO ₂作为碳源进行生长。尽管莱茵衣藻细胞壁的坚固性使其难以提取其细胞内产物，但在本研究中，当使用细胞作为制造“细胞塑料”的成分时，这种特性是有益的。细胞塑料是细胞塑料的一个组成部分，它是用一种细胞间填充剂连接每个细胞而制备的，因为莱茵衣藻是单细胞株。然后将细胞层反复堆放以增加细胞塑料的强度。为了避免孔层之间的滑动，它们被少量的二维聚合物覆盖以保持孔塑料的平坦表面结构。根据评估结果，这种细胞塑料有可能成为使用自然界中普遍存在的绿色藻类细胞的新型可持续塑料。