Zoologist catch the Eco-friendly plastics within our grasp.

 Squid sucker contain some mysterious protein in tentcle that are used for grasping the pray. May hold this secret to a new generation of green environment plastics. Researchers are finding that proteins in these suckers called squid ring teeth – can be used into fibres and films for making tough, flexible and biodegradable plastics. Squid only contains 100 milligrams of these proteins. But Melik Demirel at Pennsylvania State University and his team say about that genetically engineered E. coli can be used to make it in huge quantities, they say one importance of the proteins could be used for coating existing synthetic clothing fibers to produce a very hard wearing fabric that would not shed microplastics. It could even lead to self-healing materials. Uses of the proteins is based on the of microscopic features, such the sequence of amino acid, are form tightly coiled helices, flat sheets and disordered tangles. Counting these features give the proteins their macro-scale properties.


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