Harvard research team aims for bio-based, friction-free ketchup bottle in MIT Entrepreneurship tourney

In Massachusetts, research teams from Harvard and MIT have been working on the development of a plastic bottle that ketchup cannot stick to. Over at MIT, the team has developed a bottle coated with “LiquiGlide,” which MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith told Yahoo is “kind of a structured liquid — it’s rigid like a solid, but it’s lubricated like a liquid,” originally developed for use in anti-icing fluid or in pipe coatings.

Meanwhile, the Harvard team is working on a bio-based ketchup bottle technology. Both teams are competing in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, which in this year’s effort is focused on limiting up to 1 million tons in annual food waste.