Author: Responsible Seafood Advocate

29 February 2024 Responsible Seafood Advocate Scientists uncover novel way to create versatile bio-absorbent Professor Sow Chorng Haur (left) and Dr. Sharon Lim (right) is part of the research team that discovered how heated fish scales can be upcycled for pollution control and encryption. Image credit: The National University of Singapore. Physicists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel method of upcycling fish scale waste into a bio-absorbent that can remove the pollutant Rhodamine B from water, and as a material for to encrypt information.A research team discovered that heating fish scales to optimal temperatures made…