{"id":6765,"date":"2017-10-11T07:37:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2017-10-11T07:37:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:37:46","slug":"renewable-algae-based-footwear-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/renewable-algae-based-footwear-developed.html","title":{"rendered":"Renewable, Algae-based Footwear Developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Scientists at University of California have developed algae-based, renewable flip-flops that could be an environment friendly alternative to petroleum-based slippers &#8211; the go-to footwear in countries like India and China.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6766 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/615627-ucsd-algae-flip-flops-hero-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/615627-ucsd-algae-flip-flops-hero-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/615627-ucsd-algae-flip-flops-hero-45x45.jpg 45w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/615627-ucsd-algae-flip-flops-hero.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The flip-flops, shoe soles and other polyurethane products scientists make from living algae oil are &#8220;sustainable&#8221; because the carbon to construct them was pulled from the atmosphere, rather than underground oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Scientists are seeking to also make them &#8220;biodegradable,&#8221; by chemically converting the algae oil into polyurethane in manner that will allow the carbon bonds to be degraded by microorganisms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookindia.com\/newsscroll\/renewable-algaebased-footwear-developed\/1163135\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at University of California have developed algae-based, renewable flip-flops that could be an environment friendly alternative to petroleum-based slippers &#8211; the go-to footwear in countries like India and China. The flip-flops, shoe soles and other polyurethane products scientists make from living algae oil are &#8220;sustainable&#8221; because the carbon to construct them was pulled from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":6766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,544,615,576],"tags":[635,554,136],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-algae-polymers","category-research-2","category-university-research","tag-algae-polymers","tag-algae-products","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}