Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following people for their generous support of our project:

• the faculty of the biotech department at BCIT for allowing us access to their laboratories to work on our project.
• Christine Taggart, Industrial Technology Advisor at the National Research Council Canada for her helpful advice and for providing us with generous quantities of fibres for use in our project.
• Mr. Benson for being our sponsor teacher and for allowing us to work after school in the school lab.
• Dr. Gabbot for his help and advice with our project.

Our bibliography is available for download here: click to download