Seaweed is something we often treat as a bit of a nuisance, stepping carefully around it on the beach on our summer holidays.

Norwegian company FMC Biopolymer converts seaweed to alginate for use in thousands of products with an advanced 24 hour chemical process. ABB has supplied process automation, motors and drives to ...

If those small molecules are sugars, the polymer is called a polysaccharide. Sodium alginate is a polysaccharide found in brown seaweed. It consists of long chains of tiny clusters of sugars. On a ...

In water, jelly bombs release a goo made from sodium alginate, which comes from a mineral-rich seaweed. LUSH's factory in Poole has around 800 members of staff. They made over 50 million items ...

Sodium alginate is made up of long chains of repeating molecules, similar to necklaces. It comes from a type of seaweed. When the sodium alginate is placed in the calcium lactate, a chemical reaction ...

Three Tokyo high school students have created recyclable gloves using a fiber found in seaweed slime ... into an aqueous solution of sodium alginate and then into an aqueous solution of ...