Brainiacs Turn Water Into Elastic
Japanese scientists have found a novel way to make an incredibly cheap plastic substance from mostly water. According the journal Nature, the scientists created the substance with 95 percent water and a bit of clay and “appropriate organic matters.”
The new material was obtained by adding about two grams of clay and a small quantity of appropriate organic matters into normal water.
The new aqua substance is elastic and transparent and looks very much like jelly.
Its characteristics make it possible to use it in medicine for sticking together tissues.
If its density is increased, the new material could be used for the production of ecologically clean plastic materials.
It’s a fascinating step in creating plastic, and it really could help ease our dependence on the oil that most plastics are made from.
I just want to see what scientists could make with inappropriate matter, I bet they would get some great off-color goo.
[Via Tom's Guide | Bernama]
