Scientists from the chemical technology department of the Poznań University of Technology, in cooperation with the international research team TU Bergakademie Freiberg from Germany, developed graphite material with unique structural properties, using the protein skeletons of sea sponges as a raw material.

For two years, a 28-member team studied prefabricated three-dimensional biopolymer sponge skeletons to develop biomimetic model systems that would serve as an alternative to analogous plastic structures in advanced material chemistry.

This discovery opens new opportunities for materials science, especially in extreme biomimetic. This new field is very popular due to the development of three-dimensional composites with a hierarchical structure. To this end, scientists propose the use of renewable, naturally occurring and non-toxic protein skeletons with dimensions from centimeter to meter.
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