The beetle's back and the crab's shell owe their toughness to a common compound called chitin that now appears to trigger airway inflammation and possibly asthma, scientists have found. The beetle ...

That means your next round of PC components could involve components made of crab shells, no less. Chitin, derived from crab shells (among other things), is a biopolymer that this research has ...

This left a crab shell made entirely of translucent chitin. Chitin is a long-chain polymer that is the main component of crustacean exoskeletons. Finally, the shell was immersed in an acrylic ...

Scientists have toyed around within chitin in past years ... While you’re not going to see crab-shell batteries anytime soon, the researchers hope their batteries may become commonplace ...

Dozens of uses Asians had learned long ago to make a poultice with crab chum. Familiarity with extracting that 20 percent of the shell called chitin had led to dozens of uses in the Far East.

A non-toxic mixture of chitin-rich crab shell powder and nanosized silver particles could be an environmentally friendly way of curbing the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes, and malaria in ...

In lab tests, the team found that the composite threads were about as strong as threads made only from the crab-shell-derived chitin. But they had the bonus of flexibility from their alginate.

Led by Prof. J. Carson Meredith, the research team is producing the material by suspending wood-derived cellulose nanocrystals and crab-shell-derived chitin nanofibers in water, and then spraying ...

After making the crab shell see-through, the team applied the same technique to a material made of crushed chitin and acrylic that was flattened to make a transparent paper. To make the crab ...