Kombucha Tea Sparks Creative Materials Research Solution (IMAGE)

U.S. Army Research Laboratory

Kombucha Tea Sparks Creative Materials Research Solution

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With Army funding, researchers developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the kombucha mother used to ferment tea.

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Tzu-Chieh (Zijay) Tang, MIT

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