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Dr. Jen Murphy (PhD 2019, Kerton group) discovered an unusual form of calcium carbonate when investigating potential uses for waste mussel shells. This new materials chemistry is now online in the journal Matter. Both Dr. Kerton and Dr. Murphy have been busy chatting with journalists over the past two weeks about this unusual discovery that happened by chance. We hope that the ‘sponge’ can be used in a range of different areas – so far we have only looked at it for adsorbing dyes and oil but we think it has much broader applications.
News coverage
Materials Today: https://www.materialstoday.com/biomaterials/news/absorbent-sponges-made-from-waste-mussel-shells/
Chemistry World, from Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/inorganic-sponge-made-from-seafood-waste/4012758.article
CBC The Broadcast, with Jane Adey, https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-122/clip/15809681
Radio Canada, interview with Gino Harel: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/les-annees-lumiere/segments/reportage/208649/universite-memorial-coquille-moule-acide-acetique–materiau-spongieux
Cosmos Magazine, from the Royal Institution of Australia: https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/materials/to-create-a-sponge-just-add-acetic-acid/
The Gazette, at Memorial University: https://gazette.mun.ca/research/hard-to-soft/
Christian Science Monitor: https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2020/1110/Science-on-the-half-shell-Mussels-yield-new-material
Interesting Engineering: https://interestingengineering.com/seafood-waste-based-sponge-could-help-clear-the-sea
ScienceDaily Website: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201105113017.htm
Phys.org Website: https://phys.org/news/2020-11-hard-soft-sponges-mussel-shells.html
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