Researchers have presented a study in the journal Water Energy Nexus for the structural characterization of the organic compound polymeric chitosan in order to consider its application potential.

Tru Shrimp Cos., an indoor shrimp farm startup on the Minnesota prairie, is looking beyond grocery stores with a new byproduct it's marketing to the medical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.

Inside a 4,000-square-foot laboratory at the heart of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a group of scientists are demonstrating how to make wearable shrimp shells. It all starts with mixing chitosan – a ...

Crustaceans (Crabs, Lobster, Shrimp) are a delicious category of seafood, but their shells can yield a biopolymer with myriad potential uses Overall, our modern food system does a good job of ...

(Nanowerk News) Flexible spheres of the biomolecule chitosan, made from shrimp waste, can be used for catalysts that generate hydrogen gas from borohydride salts. In a paper in Green Chemistry ("From ...