German scientists improve food packaging with wagon wheels...

Nanotechnology is at it again—wagon-wheel shaped molecules have been developed in Germany which can greatly improve the strength, rigidity, and thermal stability of materials used in packaging.

The molecule's hub, spokes and rim can be used as fillers for plastics because they impart excellent mechanical properties to materials such as inorganic alumina platelets and polymers. The next step, researchers say, is to grow these little wheels into spider webs.

Source: Nutraingredients.com Europe

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