http://renunu.com/wordpress Curators of Fine Repurposed Wearables and Art Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:50:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://renunu.com/wordpress/2009/05/i-always-knew-chickens-were-cool/ http://renunu.com/wordpress/2009/05/i-always-knew-chickens-were-cool/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 16:16:31 +0000 paisleygo http://www.bereaware.com/2009/05/i-always-knew-chickens-were-cool/ Did you know that chicken feathers have been researched as a source of plastic-like material? Chemical engineer Richard Wool and his graduate students mixed chicken feather down with soybean resin. They made circuit boards out of the resulting plastic. Their tests revealed a variety of chicken/soy plastic properties that outperformed regular plastic!

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