{"609069":{"#nid":"609069","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Crab Shells Could Become the Plastic of the Future","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScientists hope to add another eco-friendly choice to the field of non-plastic packaging: wrap made from crab carcasses. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have been working on a flexible packaging material comprised of alternating layers of chitin, the primary component of crustacean shells, and cellulose, the main fiber found in green plants. The product is remarkably similar in texture and appearance to the common petroleum-derived plastic used in soda bottles and potato chip bags\u0026mdash;and it might even work better at keeping food fresh. College of Sciences\u0026#39; chemist \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ww2.chemistry.gatech.edu\/reynolds\/node\/12\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn Reynolds\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E is a coauthor of the paper in ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2018-07-27 22:45:17","changed_gmt":"2018-07-27 22:45:17","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nathan Bowman","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_id\/article\/9kmq57\/crab-shells-could-become-the-plastic-of-the-future","dateline":{"date":"2018-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-07-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"289451":{"id":"289451","type":"image","title":"Professor John Reynolds","body":null,"created":"1449244274","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:51:14","changed":"1475894986","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:46","alt":"Professor John Reynolds","file":{"fid":"199192","name":"reynolds_john.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/reynolds_john_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/reynolds_john_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":15238,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/reynolds_john_0.jpg?itok=CKVLwi7t"}}},"media_ids":["289451"],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}