“I’ve been constantly trying to understand how protein from food waste can be revalued and repurposed,” Raffaele Mezzenga, a trained physicist, said on a recent video call. He played quietly with a yo ...

Turning unused waste from food production into clean energy: Researchers are using chicken feathers to make fuel cells more cost-effective and sustainable. The food industry generates enormous amounts ...

Scientists have developed a sustainable fuel cell membrane made from chicken feathers. The team extracts the protein keratin from feathers and processes it into amyloid fibrils, creating a ...

In a potential breakthrough for green energy technology, scientists at ETH Zurich and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have developed a membrane for hydrogen fuel cells made from ...

The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by- products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million tonnes of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only releases ...