Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Why don’t we have compostable stickers to label our fruits and vegetables? Well, it’s actually quite difficult to make biodegradable adhesives with just the right properties, so these chemists are looking to silkworms and mussels for molecular inspiration.

Reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, “Biocompatible, Tunable, Multifunctional Adhesive Silk-PDA Composite Films for Modern Labeling Needs.”

Read the paper: doi.org/10.1021/acsami.6c00850
(Corresponding author: Fiorenzo Omenetto, Ph.D.)

#compost #fruit #stickers #adhesive #chemistry #ACS

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