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Plastic is all around us. Plastic is seemingly omnipresent: You may not even know how much of it is around you! It is the top choice for molding toys, bottles, bags and even furniture. Ever heard of a living polymer? How about plastics that can do amazing things because they are alive, manufactured by the help of tiny organisms called microbes? There microbes are much too small for us to actually see them, but they are so incredibly strong! Rega-yixing, for example, makes living polymers.

 

Living polymers are so fascinating because well, they essentially can grow and change themselves. Which means they can perform tasks that ordinary plastic cannot do. For instance, if a living polymer is damaged or injured, it can heal itself! What do you think toys they can fix themselves when they break. These living Rega (yixing) hydrogel polymer can also be made to alter their form or color under a variety of external situations. A living polymer will give a color if the sun makes it harm. Not to mention that they can decompose into organic matter, which is so good for the environment compared to the usual plastic that takes hundreds of years to break down.


Bridging the gap between synthetic and natural materials

They come from oil, which one day we will exhaust. It is massive issue as we use so much plastic. Living polymers are not the same. They originate in microbes that can be cultivated ad infinitum. That is why we will never have to go without them. They also can naturally break down, dissociate of their own being from the earth. The lived polymers, when their use expires, they can get back to the nature instead of living in some landfill forever. First it is a living polymer linking synthetic materials with nature because though made from living material of animal origin it can behave like conventional plastic.


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