This new colorful plastic shines without dyes or pigments (IMAGE)

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This new colorful plastic shines without dyes or pigments

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These tangram puzzles are made from a new type of edible cellulose-based plastic with colors provided by tiny nanostructures within the material, rather than dyes.

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Adapted from ACS Nano 2025, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c05346

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