This strange biomaterial could be the basis of homes on Mars – POP TIMES UK

Sustainability and closed-loop manufacturing
are becoming an increasingly important topic for Earth-based manufacturing, but a new study has shown that these same principles can be lifted to model extraterrestrial travel as well.Using a ubiquitous, organic polymer called chitin, found in everything from fungi fibers to shellfish shells, a team of researchers from Singapore has devised a low energy manufacturing material called “biolith.” It uses Martian regolith a loose mix of deposits that co…

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