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According to a recent study from North Carolina State University, materials with increased structure obtained from seaweed and crustaceans could serve as a part of a next-generation solution to the problem of replacing petroleum-based plastic films.
Materials derived from crustaceans and seaweed could be part of a next-generation answer to the challenge of replacing plastic films.
RALEIGH - Materials with enhanced structure derived from crustaceans and seaweed could be part of a next-generation answer to the challenge of replacing petroleum-based plastic films, according to new research from North Carolina State University. Combining chitosan, a biopolymer that makes crab shells hard, with agarose, a biopolymer extracted from seaweed that is used to
Investigators recently developed and evaluated an effective and scalable technique for producing soft polymer materials in a variety of structures, or “morphologies,” ranging from ribbons and nanoscale sheets to rods and branched particles.
Bio-Scaffolds for Growing Cells May Come from 3D-Printed Jelly Hydrogel material comes from different-sized seaweed particles. [Orlin Velev, NC State University] May 17, 2021 Share Scientists from North Carolina State University report that 3D-printable gels with improved and highly controlled properties can be created by merging micro- and nano-sized networks of the same materials harnessed from seaweed. The findings could have applications in biomedical material such as biological scaffolds for growing cells, according to the researchers. Nature Communications, shows that these water-based ...