Welcome Mia Khavari to the EcoBioMaterials Design Lab!

Welcome Dr. Liat Kugelmass and Alice Goldberg to the EcoBioMaterials Design Lab!

Now after years of testing, a new version of CDA was found to be the fastest degrading bioplastic material tested in seawater—and it’s a promising replacement for other foam plastic materials, like Styrofoam, which can linger in the environment for many years. In a new paper published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, WHOI scientists Bryan James, Collin Ward, Chris Reddy, Yanchen Sun, and Kali Pate, found that adding small pores—called foaming—to CDA material made it degrade 15 times faster than solid CDA, and even faster than paper.

Why should biomedical engineers care about research on ocean plastics?

Moldable Plastics (Polycaprolactone) can be Acutely Toxic to Developing Zebrafish and Activate Nuclear Receptors in Mammalian Cells