Construction materials What if we were to omite the use of plastic? As researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found, a material from two naturally-occurring polymers , cellulose(C6H10O5)n -most abundant organic polymer on Earth and chitin(C8H13O5N)n -found in crustaceans, shrimp shells and fungi, could offer an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional plastic usage.
Chitin
CASEIN (C81H125N22O39P) The main milk’s main protein can be used to create a processable polymer. Casein is renewable, biogredable and compostable, allowing for developing a bioplastic with no significant aquatic toxicity.
Pectin
Pectin is known as a type of structural fiber found in the primary cell wall and intracellular layer of plant cells mainly in the skin of apples, oranges, lemons, and so on. How can we use to our advantage?
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Bio-materials applicability
Other applications of bio-degradable materials include obtaining bio-fuel, making clothes and obtaining resistent glue made by ants, that cements structures
Photosynthetic Clothes
What if we were to combine photosynthetic cynobacteria (located in oceans, freshwater pounds) and E.coli (bacterium that inhabits the human gut), two microorganisms that have never met. The cyanobacteria converts light into sugar, whereas the E.coli consumes sugar and turns it into biofuel, very useful for the built environment. Moreover, can fluoresce bright colours in darkness. This could go even further by creating photosynthetic wearables. create designs that are inspired by nature, to designs made with and by nature, to, possibly designing nature herself.
