"This project investigates the structural, aesthetic, and biomedical potential of fish scales as a multifunctional biomaterial across medical, wearable, and artistic applications. Traditionally ...

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Many animals have evolved hard exoskeletons to resist predation or competitive attacks (e.g., crustaceans 1, insects 2, mollusks 3, turtles 4,5, seahorses 6,7, and bony fish 8,9,10). These ‘natural ...

Scientists have devised a method of using fish scales to convey encrypted messages. Not only would the technology divert seafood industry waste from landfills, it should also be less costly than ...

Shingles are most often associated with roofing or siding and, in one rare instance, with cuisine - the infamous "SOS." Although by definition shingles can be wood, metal, slate, asphalt, fiberglass, ...

Scalite is a new material from company Scale that is made entirely of fish scales, a byproduct of the fishing industry. Based in France, Scale is creating a new circular economy around the fishing ...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have established that collagen derived from fish scales could be effective for various biomedical applications such as wound ...

Scientists in Europe researching aerodynamic forces have opened up some interesting new avenues of study inspired by fish scales. This new understanding of the flow patterns over the surface of the ...