Washington-based startup Tidal Vision upcycles discarded crab shells to produce chitosan — a positively charged biopolymer with myriad applications in sustainable water treatment, textile production, ...

Who works: Some 180 employees across three divisions manufacture liquid chitosan products used by three industries across three continents. What works: Tidal Vision is on track to divert 5.4 million ...

I’ve covered battery breakthroughs for years, but few ideas feel as counterintuitive—and as promising—as turning crab shells into high‑performance power packs. By pairing zinc metal with a polymer ...

Standing outside a boutique seafood processor in Juneau on a sunny September afternoon, Zach Wilkenson held a handful of what looked like pulverized corn flakes. Wilkinson said he always knew there ...

We’ve been looking at crab, and other crustaceans, all wrong. Going crabbing for food, digging into the (admittedly delicious) meat and tossing the shell away, all to end up in a landfill or compost ...

Treatment plants in the United States process about 34 billion gallons of wastewater every day, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. But conventional treatment products that contain ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have developed a process to turn crab shells into a bioplastic that can be used to make optical components known as diffraction gratings. The resulting lightweight, ...

Most people are unaware that the yarns and fabrics that make up our carpets, clothing, car seats, mattresses, even mop heads are coated with chemicals and metals such as copper, silver and aluminum ...

A team of scientists from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines have managed to convert an extract from crab shells into a bioplastic that they say can be used to make optical parts known as ...

Standing outside a boutique seafood processor in Juneau on a sunny September afternoon, Zach Wilkenson held a handful of what looked like pulverized corn flakes. Wilkinson said he always knew there ...

JUNEAU — Standing outside a boutique seafood processor in Juneau on a sunny September afternoon, Zach Wilkenson held a handful of what looked like pulverized corn flakes. Wilkinson said he always knew ...