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Submitted by Julia Pohling, Facility Supervisor of the Food Processing Pilot Plant, Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development (CASD), Marine Institute (Supervisor: Dr. Heather Burke), and PhD candidate (Process Engineering) (Supervisor: Dr. Kelly Hawboldt) The chitin architecture of a crab exoskeleton, 2024 Purified chitin structure of a snow crab. It’s extremely strong and feels like plastic. Research project title - Development of green extraction processes for chitin from crustacean shells.

Submitted by Julia Pohling, Facility Supervisor of the Food Processing Pilot Plant, Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development (CASD), Marine Institute (Supervisor: Dr. Heather Burke), and PhD candidate (Process Engineering) (Supervisor: Dr. Kelly Hawboldt)

The chitin architecture of a crab exoskeleton, 2024

Purified chitin structure of a snow crab. It’s extremely strong and feels like plastic.

Research project title – Development of green extraction processes for chitin from crustacean shells.


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