GROWN
Welcome to the wondrous world of grown materials: fish leather, textiles created from bacteria and horsehair, plastic made from chicken feathers, and the more usual grown materials such as plant fibres and wood. This section is one of the major emerging materials families, an area that encompasses both the big chemical industries – who are looking into extracting proteins from starch to make new types of plastic – as well as research projects from individuals like Fiorenzo Omenetto, a scientist who is developing an incredible array of uses for silk.
This section includes experimental projects based on byproducts of natural waste which are deconstructed to make new types of materials. The urgent need to find rapidly renewable materials ...
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