Press Room

•    National Geographic,  “Future of Food Packaging”

  Elizabeth Royt, 2019

•    Science Focus,  “The Plastic Age”

  Helen Scales, 2019

•    Voltage,  “Le Shrilk, le bioplastique c’est fantastique”

  Iris Mazzacurati, 2019 (FRA)

•    3Dprinting.com,  “Exclusive Interview: Chitonous Hopes to Use Ubiquitous Biological Polymers for Manufacturing”

  Joris Peels, 2019

•    El Pais,  “Serrín y gambas para imprimir a gran escala”

  Nacho Sanchez, 2019 (ESP)

•    Engineering.com,  “The Significance of Completely Biodegradable 3D-Printed Plastic”

  Michael Molitch-Hou, 2018

•    Financial Times,  “Biomimicry unleashes wave of materials innovation”

  Sarah Murray, 2018

•    The Weather Channel,  “Is Eco-Friendly Plastic Around the Corner?”

  Mishana Khot, 2018

•    Medium,  “Bioplastic — the white elephant in the room?”

  Hazel Tang, 2018

•    Forum Network,  “Shrilk”

  Derrik Sullivan, 2017

•    ONE,  “¿Fabricaremos con materiales inteligentes que se repararán solos? Javier Gómez responde?”

  Selena Sheikh, 2016 (ESP, ENG sub)

•    Futuremag – ARTE,  “Des emballages emballants”

  Meryam El Yousfi, 2015 (FRA)

•    El Mundo, “El creador español de Shrilk, el plástico del futuro, se va a Singapur”
  David Guerrero, 2015 (ESP)

•    TV3 Els Matins,  “El quitosan podria substituir el plàstic”

  Helena Garcia Melero, 2015 (ESP/CAT)

•    Huffington Post, “Surprise Finding Heightens Concern Over Tiny Bits Of Plastic Polluting Our Oceans”
  Lynne Peeples, 2015

•    Metro 95.1, “¿Adiós al plástico?”

  Diego Iglesias, 2015 (ESP)

•    Popular Science, “Your Guide to the 3D Printed Universe”

  Megan Molteni, 2015

•    La COPE, “El quitosano, un material biodegradable que puede sustituir al plástico”

  Roberto Pablo and Lartaun de Azumendi, 2015 (ESP)

•    El Pais, “El adiós al plástico está en el caparazón de un insecto”
  Carlos Betriu, 2015 (ESP)

•    Cadena SER, “El final del plástico está en los insectos y crustáceos”

  Carles Francino, 2015 (ESP)

•    CBS News,  “Environmentally-friendly bioplastic created from shrimp shells”

  Michael Roppolo, 2014

•    Discovery Channel,  “Can We Make Plastic from Shrimp?”

  Carin Bondar, 2014

•    Southern California Public Radio (NPR), “Shrimp shells could make the green plastic of the future”

  Meghan McCarty, 2014

•    Euronews,  “Changing education for a changing world”

  Aurora Velez Garcia, 2014

•    CBC Radio, “Food Waste”

  Torah Kachur, 2014

•    The Guardian, “Five wonder materials that could change the world”

  Ian Sample, 2014

•    Fox News, “Harvard researchers develop bioplastic”

  Ashley Dvorkin, 2014

•    Science/AAAS, “Making Plastic Out of Shrimp Shells”

  Kristen Kusek, 2014

•    Huffington Post, “Nature Has A Promising Replacement For Plastics”

  Lynne Peeples, 2014

•    Science for the Public (WGBH), “Replacing Plastic”

  Yvonne Stapp, 2014

•    Live Science, “Shrilk: Bug-Inspired ‘Plastic’ Made from Shrimp Shells”

  Jim Parks, 2014

•    Entomology Today, “Got Shrilk? Insect Inspired Bioplastic”

  Ansel Oommen, 2014

•    Business Insider, “Biodegradable Plastic”

  Douglas Main, 2014

•    Scientific American, “9 Materials That Will Change Manufacturing”

  Steven Ashley and Larry Greenemeier, 2013

•    BBC Radio, “Costing the earth”

  Tom Heap and Martin Poyntz-Roberts, 2013

•    National Geographic Magazine, “Super Materials”

  Ann Williams, 2013

•    BBC, “Genius of Nature”

  John Capener, 2012

•    Scientific American, “Insect Cuticle Inspires New Material”

  Cynthia Graber, 2011

•    The Daily Mail, “Shrilk’ is a lab-grown version of insect armour which could replace plastics”

  Rob Waugh, 2011

•    Science Daily, “Inspired by Insect Cuticle, Scientists Develop Material That’s Tough and Strong”

  Dan Hogan, 2011

•    Fast Company, “Insect-Inspired Material That Could Solve Our Plastic Problem”

  Nidhi Subbaraman, 2011

•    PhysOrg, “Shrilk’: Inspired by insect cuticle, researchers develop low-cost material with exceptional strength”

  John Benson, 2011

•    Science Business, “Natural Lightweight Material Exhibits Strength, Toughness”

  Alan Kotok, 2011

•    CNET, “Breakthrough in tissue engineering: ‘Bio-Legos’”

  Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, 2010

•    New Scientist, “‘Human Lego’ may one day build artificial organs”

  Wendy Wolfson, 2010

•    The New York Times, “Micromasonry & Biological Lego”

  Ben Schott, 2010

•    MIT News, “Building organs block by block”

  Anne Trafton, 2010

•    Stanford University, “Transforming Cells into Bricks Offers New Method for Assembling Tissues”

  Juan-Carlos Foust, 2010