Penn State ’s department of nutrient science has been hard at work using an electrospinning equipment to stretch sinewy strands out of a biodegradable food - starch solution . Using a resolvent to unthaw the starch into a runny , long strands are spun , which , in great quantity , can be woven together together as one would a textile — the potential program of which extends itself to napkins , tissues , and even medical medical dressing , like bandage .
Starch is the most abundant and least expensive of all the raw polymer , so bringing this technique to surmount for industrial processes would be a extremely cost - effective — not to cite unripened — development . Other than toll , one consumer benefit of amylum - based bandage would be their painlessness . Unlike schematic bandages on the market today , which are often sore to absent — a starch bandage would over clock time degrade into glucose — or sugar — a means of course and safely absorb by the body . [ Phys.org – Image viaStephen Coburn / Shutterstock ]
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