Polymers Audio Articles

Mucus . Yes, this is basically the material studied in this article. They synthesize, modify, analyze, functionalize and play with a mucin mimetic polymer to research about the protection it provides against toxins . Take a listen to the episode, they deserve at least to take a listen to their work.  Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in ACS Central Science on 30 th march 2021 Austin G. Kruger, Spencer D. Brucks, Tao Yan, Gerardo Cárcarmo-Oyarce, Yuan Wei, Deborah H. Wen, Dayanne R. Carvalho, Michael J. A. Hore, Katharina Ribbeck, Richard R. Schrock and Laura L. Kiessling DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.0c01569

          Cows eating plastic . We know that sounds like a crazy story or perhaps a problem in the cattle raising industry, but it happens to be one possible future for plastic management . At least, this article represents the first step in that direction, determining how groups of bacteria and other microorganisms are able to degrade different sorts of plastic . We are really surprised that we haven't seen it in the global media yet, but here we are to fix it. Anchor / Google Podcasts / iVoox / Spotify & much more SPANISH AUDIO Published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology on 2 nd july 2021 Felice Quartinello, Klemens Kremser, Herta Schoen, Donatella Tesei, Leon Ploszczanski, Magdalena Nagler, Sabine M. Podmirseg, Heribert Insam, Guadalupe Piñar, Katja Sterflingler, Doris Ribitsch and Georg M. Guebitz DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2021.684459