These efforts started in Dr. Naohiro Kato’s lab, where the professor began the work of producing Mardi Gras beads from ...

These eco-friendly beads are made using a 3D printer ... “We found that this plastic PLA and PHA, which is one corn-based and one is algae-based, can degrade over time. And with that, we ...

Weibel and his colleagues conjugated polystyrene beads with a photocleavable chemical group that binds to the CR algal wall, and used LED lights to guide algae through clumps of beads. The cells ...