Japanese researchers turn a crab shell transparent

Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 07:00 in Physics & Chemistry

A group of researchers working out of Kyoto University in Japan have successfully transformed a normal crab into one that is transparent. As they describe in their paper published in the British Royal Society of Chemistry journal, Soft Matter, the team used a chemical process to take advantage of the special properties of chitin, one of the main ingredients in crab shells.

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