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Innovations to make you smile, lab created wagyu beef and mink fur, BMW’s latest, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of September 8th

Innovations to make you smile, lab created wagyu beef and mink fur, BMW’s latest, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of September 8th

September 7, 2021 |

  Is that shrimp stuck in your teeth? How about shrimp weapon-inspired material for your dental implact crowns? That’s just what researchers created with a cellulose-based nanocomposite inspired by the ultra-strong clubs shrimp use to pulverize prey such as clams. And another thing to smile about is the world’s first carbon-neutral toothbrush made from cellulose […]

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New shell-and-silk hybrid is as flexible, hard as aluminium, half the weight

New shell-and-silk hybrid is as flexible, hard as aluminium, half the weight

February 13, 2012 |

In Massachusetts, Harvard researchers have developed a new material, shrilk, derived from shrimp shells and a silk protein, that is flexible, clear and as hard as aluminum while only half the weight. In an article from the Harvard Gazette, the material is described as being biodegradable, with a wide range of possible uses, from medical […]

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