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- Could shrimp shells help make solar power affordable for everyone? Wed, 4 Mar 15, 5:02amResearchers from Queen Mary University of London's School of Engineering and Materials Science have used hydrothermal carbonization to create carbon quantum dots for solar cells from chitin and chitosan, chemicals that can...
- Harvard Scientists Create Super Strong Degradable Bioplastic from Shrimp Shells Sat, 10 May 14, 2:47amThanks to a team of Harvard scientists, being called a "shrimp" will no longer amount to an insult. The University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering isolated chitin in the arthropod's exoskeleton to make...
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