Tag: CircularEconomy
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Why we still can’t replicate the spider’s water-resistant glue?
The adhesion failure: the impossible trade-off 🕸️ The Problem When it comes to adhesives, we currently face an impossible choice. You get something that can stick, even your fingers! or you get sustainability, but you almost never can find both. And the typical chemical adhesives we rely on? They are fundamentally flawed! They are rigid,…
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Nature’s Composite: a next step for sustainable packaging?
Current sustainable packaging is failing the structural test, driving up waste and shipping costs. This brief decodes the Beetle’s Chiral Layering System to engineer ultra-light, high-strength, mono-material composites, proving that zero-waste packaging must be an engineering problem, not just a material choice.