Flex your mussels: Seastex makes acoustic tiles from bivalve beards
In London, a startup is creating performance materials from an unlikely source: the “beards” mussels extend outside of their shells to stay anchored. Seastex sees the plastic-like fibers—also known as byssus—as an especially promising source of biobased materials because it does not compete with food. The company gets the material from mussels cultivated for human […]
