Search results for gelatin

Nanomaterials Jun 5, 2024

Safer, cheaper, more flexible battery invented for wearable tech

Researchers have developed a safer, cheaper, better performing and more flexible battery option for wearable devices. A paper describing the "recipe" for their new battery type was published in the journal Nano Research Energy ...

Plants & Animals May 16, 2024

Researchers uncover how jelly sea creatures might shape modern robotics

Scientists at the University of Oregon have discovered that colonies of gelatinous sea animals swim through the ocean in giant corkscrew shapes using coordinated jet propulsion, an unusual kind of locomotion that could inspire ...

Materials Science Feb 21, 2023

Video: Starch gelatinization, retrogradation, and the world's fluffiest white bread

If you want to make the fluffiest bread possible, you're going to need to use chemistry.

Plants & Animals Nov 28, 2022

Swimming habits of gelatinous animals could inspire underwater vehicle design

A gelatinous sea creature could teach engineers a lesson or two.

Materials Science Apr 23, 2021

Synthetic gelatin-like material mimics lobster underbelly's stretch and strength

A lobster's underbelly is lined with a thin, translucent membrane that is both stretchy and surprisingly tough. This marine under-armor, as MIT engineers reported in 2019, is made from the toughest known hydrogel in nature, ...

Biotechnology Oct 29, 2020

Researchers develop new gelatin microcarrier for cell production

Researchers from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT's research enterprise in Singapore, have developed a novel microcarrier for large-scale cell production and expansion that offers higher ...

Materials Science May 1, 2020

Gelatin could soon power our wearables and IoT devices

Ground-breaking research published in Science and led by Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) has found that gelatin could be used to power devices in the future, using only the heat generated from the ...

Earth Sciences Jan 8, 2020

Gelatinous zooplankton makes an important contribution to marine carbon transport

They are small, almost transparent, similar to jellyfish, and they occur in the ocean in huge quantities. Cnidaria, Ctenophora and Urochordata belong to the gelatinous plankton communities that are omnipresent in the ocean ...

Plants & Animals Sep 25, 2017

Penguin-mounted video captures gastronomic close encounters of the gelatinous kind

Footage from penguin-mounted mini video recorders shows four species of penguin eating jellyfish and other gelatinous animals of the open ocean, a food source penguins were not previously believed to partake of, scientists ...

Plants & Animals Jun 12, 2013

Turtles watch for, snack on gelatinous prey while swimming

Loggerhead turtles use visual cues to find gelatinous prey to snack on as they swim in open waters, according to research published June 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Tomoko Narazaki and colleagues from the University ...

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