Researchs make a new kind of plastic from crustacean and insect shells

Published: 20 December 2018

Thomas Di Nardo (MSc) and Audrey Moores discovered a new method, based on mechanochemistry and aging, allowing to turn chitin into a new, long molecular weight chitosan. This new material has...

Students win international competition

Published: 15 May 2014

An innovative proposal to harvest water in some of the world’s most arid locations has won the international competition Shell Ideas360. A team of Concordia and McGill students beat out more than...

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