UBC entrepreneur Jaiya Varshney is building Tydra Biomaterial Labs, turning food waste into chitin coatings that could ...

Seafood, insect, and mushroom industries generate chitin waste. New processing converts it into high-purity chitosan for ...

Eating foods rich in dietary fiber is part of a healthy diet. One lesser-known rich source of dietary fiber called chitin can be found in the exoskeletons of crustaceans and insects, as well as in ...

The mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions increasingly relies on advanced adsorption materials capable of capturing and releasing hydrocarbons efficiently under repeated operating cycles. Porous ...

Researchers at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI), Kanazawa University, report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society the use of three-dimensional atomic force microscopy (AFM) and ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...