Squid skin protein could improve biomedical technologies, study shows
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 14:00
in Physics & Chemistry
The common pencil squid (Loliginidae) may hold the key to a new generation of medical technologies that could communicate more directly with the human body. UC Irvine materials science researchers have discovered that reflectin, a protein in the tentacled creature's skin, can conduct positive electrical charges, or protons, making it a promising material for building biologically inspired devices.