Researchers find DNA can work as a flame retardant (w/ video)
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers working at the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy has found that applying herring sperm DNA to cotton fabric caused it to be resistant to burning or catching on fire. In their paper published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A, the team describes how they applied the sperm as a coating to a piece of cotton test fabric and tried to set it on fire, to no avail.