Material derived from crab shells and wood pulp could replace flexible plastic packaging Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a material from two naturally-occurring ...

An international interdisciplinary team of researchers from India, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand has successfully developed a method of using chitosan from terrestrial insects to manufacture ...

The Water-Based Digital Fabrication project at MIT developed and patented a novel system for using water-based solutions of bio-polymers like chitin and cellulose to create biocomposite structures ...

Jie Wu, an engineering graduate student, was studying a type of striking white beetle found in Southeast Asia and attempting to figure out how to mimic its brilliant color when an unexpected discovery ...