8 articles
Lessonia trabeculata, the huiro, builds Chile's great subtidal kelp forests and feeds a global alginate industry. Biology, fishery, ecology and El Niño risk.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Inside kelp tissue: alginate cell walls, laminarin energy stores, mannitol, iodine and pigments — the chemistry that feeds kitchens, clinics and industry.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Alginate, agar and carrageenan: the gelling polysaccharides inside seaweed cell walls, why each species gives a different gel, and how extraction works.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
The real production chain behind seaweed packaging — alginate extraction, film casting, the coatings that beat plastic, and the honest limits on scale and strength.
Naomi Reyes ·
A seaweed biorefinery cascades one harvest into several products — pigments, alginate, feed, biochar. How the fractionation order works, and the trade-offs.
Naomi Reyes ·
How kelp becomes cloth — alginate fibre spinning, seaweed-cellulose blends, and the very short list of things seaweed actually adds to textiles.
Naomi Reyes ·
Alginate, carrageenan, agar and fucoidan all start as wet seaweed on a harvest boat. Here is how extraction turns fronds into the powders behind a thousand products.
Naomi Reyes ·
How alginates are extracted from brown seaweeds, the chemistry that makes them gel, and what food, pharma and industrial grades actually demand from raw material.
Naomi Reyes ·