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via the USA Science & Engineering Festival Another teen making headlines- 2013 Science In Action Winner! (part of the Google Science Fair) From Festival Sponsor Scientific American magazine: "The ingredients to make Bilgin’s plastic are relatively benign. As she wrote in her entry materials, “it is possible to say that one could do it at home.” In her research, she learned that starch and cellulose are used elsewhere in the bioplastic industry (such as from the skin of mangoes) and made the leap that banana peels might be suitable feedstock sources as well. She hopes that the use of the bioplastic could replace some of the petroleum-based plastics in use today for such applications as insulation for electric cables and for cosmetic prostheses. The health application is perhaps no surprise to those who know Bilgin; she hopes to attend medical school one day (“science is my calling,” she wrote in her entry)." ... Read more here: bit.ly/18HhLu5 Photo via Science Panorama
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:44:57 +0000

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